26 Halloween Desserts That Are Spooky Cute

Get ready for spooky season with these cute and festive Halloween desserts. These dessert ideas are perfect to bring to a party or to enjoy while watching a Halloween movie.

This collection of Halloween dessert ideas includes witch hat cupcakes, spider cookies, candy corn fudge, skeleton sugar cookies, ghost cupcakes, and more.

Both kids and adults will love these scary good treats.

Spider Cookies

These peanut butter blossom spider cookies will be a hit at your Halloween party. They’re the most adorable Halloween cookie ever.

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Witch Hat Cupcakes

These witch hat cupcakes have a surprise filling perfect for Halloween: green “slime” pudding.

Step-by-step directions are included for making the cute witches’ hats out of fondant.

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Graveyard Brownies

Making a batch of brownies that look like graveyards is a genius idea. These graveyard brownies are topped with Nutella, yum!

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Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

These candy corn decorated cookies are a must-make Halloween treat! Melt-in-your-mouth soft Halloween sugar cookies are finished off with festive candy corns.

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Pumpkin Pops

Kids and adults will love these no-bake cookie dough cake pops shaped like pumpkins.

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Spider Cake

Everyone will be impressed with this show-stopping pumpkin chocolate chip cake decorated with truffle spiders.

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Candy Corn Fudge

Candy corn fans will go wild for this easy, no-bake fudge recipe. You can cut them into squares or little triangles to look like candy corn.

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Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies

These jack o’lantern sandwich cookies are filled with delicious homemade pumpkin butter that you won’t be able to get enough of.

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Halloween Cheesecake

Regular cheesecake gets a spooky makeover with a festive orange-flavored filling, purple tinted strawberry curd glaze, and plenty of candy eyes.

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Halloween Ice Cream

This tasty, no-churn birthday cake flavored ice cream uses food dye to get the perfect mixture of Halloween colors.

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Frankenstein Peanut Butter Cookies

Everyone will be raving about these homemade peanut butter cookies made with Reese’s Franken cups. These are just about the cutest, I mean, scariest thing ever!

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Jack-o’-Lantern Cake

Another show-stopping cake on this list, this Jack-o’-Lantern cake will be the star of any Halloween dessert table.

Keep in mind this cake is a little time-consuming and requires more advanced decorating skills than some other desserts on the list, but the payoff is worth it. This gorgeous cake will have everyone saying, “Wow.”

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Bat Cake Pops

These bat cake pops with Oreo wings will be so popular at any Halloween gathering that they’ll fly right off the plate.

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Ghost Cupcakes

If you love red velvet cupcakes, you’re almost guaranteed to love black velvet made with black cocoa powder. The cream cheese frosting “ghosts” are a fun and easy decorating idea.

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Halloween Trifle

Need to feed a crowd at your Halloween party? Just serve this chocolate Halloween trifle decorated with Peeps and candy corns.

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Halloween Rice Krispie Treats

These Halloween Rice Krispie treats are so simple to make that even the kids can help. Making them look like pumpkins, monsters, and mummies is so fun!

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Spider Web Brownies

Making icing spider webs is way easier than you think and is a fun way to take regular brownies and make them Halloween-worthy.

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Candy Corn Swirl Cookies

These sugar cookies with a candy corn colored swirl will have everyone wanting seconds. Even people who don’t like candy corn will love these cookies because they don’t actually taste like candy corn.

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Ghost Buttercream Board

At the center of this dessert board is an adorable ghost made out of buttercream. Everyone will love dipping cookies and other treats into the frosting.

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Halloween Chocolate Covered Strawberries

These spooky chocolate-covered strawberries are not only delicious but super fun to make.

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Halloween Fudge

Made with only five ingredients, this Halloween fudge only has five minutes of prep time.

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Spooky Rice Krispie Treats

Thanks to the detailed directions, these frightfully good Rice Krispie treats are a cinch to decorate.

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Ghost Meringues

These light and airy meringue cookies have the best vanilla flavor. You’ll want these sweet ghosts to haunt your house every year around Halloween!

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Skeleton Chocolate Sugar Cookies

There is no need to buy another cookie cutter for this recipe if you already have a gingerbread man cookie cutter.

These chocolate sugar cookies and icing are made entirely from scratch.

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Pumpkin Oreo Balls

No one will be able to resist these Oreo truffles shaped like little pumpkins.

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Ghost Bark

Need a Halloween treat that’s inexpensive to make? This ghost bark recipe has only three ingredients and is an excellent option for a budget-friendly dessert.

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