20 Hauntingly Good Halloween Cookies

Whether it’s a spooky soireé for kids, adults, or a mix of both, it’s hard to beat big platters of sweet treats to go around.

1. Oreo Cookie Spiders

These Oreo cookie spiders are cute and made with five basic ingredients. They start by breaking four pretzel sticks in half to form eight individual pieces that are inserted on the side of the Oreo cookie to form the spider legs. Candy corn whites make the “fangs.”

2. Monster Truffles

A fun and simple Halloween treat made of Oreos, cream cheese, candy melts, and purple sprinkles. No baking required.

3. Gooey Monster Cookies

We love that these are colorful and uses an easy cake mix with just seven ingredients.

4. Meringue Ghosts

These cute meringues are made by mixing egg whites, cream of tartar, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract. Gluten free and dairy-free as written.

5. Ghost Cookies

These start with Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies and some white chocolate or vanilla chips that you melt for dipping. Three ingredients, boom, done.

For more Mllano cookie fun, scroll to the bottom to see our recipe for “tombstones” and crushed chocolate cookie “dirt!”

6. Dark Chocolate Halloween Cookies

These triple-chocolate cookies offer the orange-and-black theme without being too scary or gross-looking.

7. Gingerbread Skeleton Cookies

The all-time favorite Christmas treat, gingerbread, gets a creative twist. Soft in the centers and crispy on the edges.

8. Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies

A chocolate chunk cookie recipe with a spider-ific touch! 

9. Witch Finger Cookies

The cookies get their creepy vibe from a few drops of green food coloring into the mix and red decorator gel that serves as blood dripping from almond-based fingertips. 

10. Witch Hat Cookies

Kid-friendly and super easy to make, these treats are summoned with only five minutes of prep time and five simple ingredients. No baking required and they look super cute on a dessert table.

11. Halloween Mummy Cookies

Spread the Oreos on top of a wire cooling rack, let the vanilla candy melt, pipe mummy bandages over the Oreos using the melted candy, then allow them to cool!

Can’t have a party without the punch recipes too!

12. Spooky Spiral Halloween Cookies

Lots of helpful tips here for using royal icing on cookies. The designs are simple and would make a nice family craft.

13. Voodoo Doll Cookies

You can customize your homemade Halloween cookies with different colors and designs–you can attach edible hearts using red fondant icing, colorful stitches on top of the gingerbread dough, or turn them into mummies with snakes and buttons!

14. Bloodshot Eye Cookies

I mean, these do make a bold impression!

15. Blood Splatter Cookies

Not fully homemade but not fussy either. This recipe starts with a chub of plain refrigerated sugar cookie dough, a tub of vanilla icing and some red writing gel.

16. Candy Corn Cookies

Soft, festive cookies filled with candy corn and white chocolate chips for lots of vanilla flavor. It takes unsalted butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla extract, cream, flour, cornstarch, a dash of salt.

17. Pumpkin Mummy Cookies

You can use a roll of store-bought pie crust to save some time on these, but they are cute either way.

18. Black Cat Skeleton Cookies

These chocolate cutout cookies add some flair to the rest of a Halloween snack board without too much work.

19. Decorated Pumpkin Cookies

This cookie recipe looks pro, and you may want to practice if you put these out to impress. Tip: When filling the sections with orange icing, wait a few minutes before moving to the next one to avoid color overrun.

20. Black Cat Cookies

Land o’ Lakes make these look easy. I’d love to see your attempts at making these look like black cat faces out of the oven. Add yours to our facebook page.

The bottom line

We are all about the Halloween party extravaganza here in America, and every party should have one or two of these fun cookies on the table!

One more bonus idea: For great individual treats, fill cupcake liners with crushed chocolate cookies, layer a spoonful of chocolate pudding, then more crushed chocolate cookies (so it looks like dirt). 

With an icing pen, write RIP on one side of a Milano cookie to look like a tombstone. Let dry. Shuffle the “tombstone” into the “dirt” (it will lean back a bit but that’s okay).

Then cut a gummy worm and “bury” it halfway next to the cookie “tombstone.”

They are creepy without being TOO spooky and you can eat everything but the cupcake liner! 

Looking for even more fang-tastic dessert recipes? Try this list!