41 Spooky Halloween Cookie Recipes that are Scary Good
As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, Halloween enthusiasts everywhere start to anticipate the spookiest time of the year. What better way to celebrate the season than by baking up a storm of frightfully delicious cookies? From ghoulishly delightful sugar cookies to decadent chocolate covered oreo treats, we’ve rounded up the best Halloween cookie recipes that are sure to be a hit at any monster mash. Get ready to preheat your ovens and gather your most festive cookie cutters—it’s time to create some hauntingly tasty treats that will have everyone screaming for more!
The Best Halloween Cookie Recipes
Sink your fangs into this bewitching collection of Halloween cookie recipes that will cast a spell on your taste buds! Unleash your inner mad scientist and conjure up everything from eerie eyeball cookies to wickedly good witch finger treats that are sure to be the scream of the party.
Indulge in the dark side with these irresistibly rich Halloween double chocolate chip cookies that are as spooky as they are scrumptious! Each bite is packed with gooey chocolate chips and a hint of Halloween magic, making them the ultimate treat for your ghoulish festivities.
Halloween sprinkle cookies are soft vanilla cookies topped with a generous coating of Halloween candy sprinkles. This easy Halloween dessert recipe can be made from scratch in less than 30 minutes!
These Jack Skellington Chocolate Covered Oreos are a fun fandom dessert recipe for Nightmare Before Christmas lovers! Whether making them for Halloween, Christmas, or a movie watch party, this easy and fun recipe is a great way to celebrate your favorite character.
Skull Cookies are buttery, filled with raspberry jam, and then adorned with an M&M flower. Skip the spookiness and make an adorable cookie this Halloween season.
Halloween Spider Cookies are easy, fun, and great for Halloween get togethers! A chocolate sugar cookie topped with delicious buttercream and a Lindor truffle spider!
Spooky Graham Crackers aren’t truly spooky. All five of the Halloween characters are actually rather cute. The chocolate covered grahams are more likely to cause smiles than screams.
These Frankenstein macarons are perfect for Halloween! A homemade macaron cookie, filled with buttercream and decorated as Frankenstein!
Mummy sugar cookies are soft homemade vanilla sugar cookies topped with royal icing and candy eyes. These easy Halloween cookies make a festive Halloween treat.
Hocus Pocus Cookies are a fun, colorful sugar cookies with white chocolate chips. Sweet, chewy and always a favorite, these are the best cookies for your Hocus Pocus movie marathon!
Easy Chocolate Monster Cookies recipe. Made with candy eyeballs, this makes a great last minute dessert idea for any Halloween party.
Peanut butter cup spider cookies are fun Halloween cookies for kids. Adorable peanut butter cup spiders sit on top of soft, chewy peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate legs and candy eyes.
These eerie creatures-from-the-other-side sugar cookies are actually really easy to make.
Delicious Halloween bat cookies with this simple shortbread recipe! Features mini Reese’s cups and cute edible eyes. The whole family can participate in the baking of this treat recipe.
No-Bake Oreo Spider Cookies are the perfect addition to your Halloween celebration this year! With their big googly eyes and creepy little legs, these Halloween cookies with be the hit of your ghoulish celebration.
These gorgeous purple Witch Hat Cookies are soft cake mix cookies with Hershey Kisses, frosting and Halloween sprinkles. Using a boxed cake mix as a shortcut, means these cookies are quick and easy to whip up for your spooky celebration.
Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Sugar Cookies are a fun Halloween dessert recipe! These colored sugar cookies are made to look like patchwork from Sally's dress in the popular movie. A fun fandom recipe for movie night.
These copycat Lofthouse cookies are not only easy to make, but can also be decorated for Halloween fun.
This yummy cookie cake is filled with autumnal M&Ms and chocolate chips! The frosting spiderweb makes it perfect for Halloween!
This sweet treat can be made in different colours and they make fun, scary treats for everyone to enjoy. Making them is easy and decorating Halloween cookies is such fun.
These Halloween themed bat sugar cookies are seriously spooky and perfect for the scariest time of the year.
Halloween Finger Cookies are spooky and mummified! Made using an easy eggless shortbread recipe, there is no food coloring and these are fun to make with kids for Halloween.
These Halloween Sugar Cookies are a simple way to add a little Halloween magic to school lunches or Halloween parties. Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut ghoulish shapes from chocolate cookie dough then decorate with royal icing and candy eyes
Deliciously soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies turned into creepy yet cute Halloween treats! These Halloween Monster Cookies are so easy and fun to make, with no food coloring used.
Sink your teeth into these mummy cookies that are anything but scary. Not your ordinary cookies, these sugar cookies include warm flavors of maple and cinnamon. So easy to decorate and will pop on your Halloween dessert table.
An easy recipe and a fun treat, or great way to use up leftover Halloween candy! Chewy cookies stuffed with peanut M&M candies and Reese's peanut butter cups.
The BEST Black Cat Cookies | Easy and Ready in less than 20 minutes!
Black Cat Cookies are a fun and easy treat for Halloween! A chocolate sugar cookie with candy corn eyes is a delicious Halloween dessert!
Halloween themed sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect spooky Halloween party treat! The cream cheese frosting is fun to decorate.
Crunchy Homemade Graham Crackers Sandwich Cookies are bursting with honey and toasty whole wheat flavor. A layer of chocolate between two grahams, and a cut-out on top, turns these cookies into festive treats.
All the details for making charming Halloween cookies! Buttery Halloween sugar cookies decorated with our perfect royal icing!
Try these super easy Oreo Cookie Mummy Pops! Your no-bake Halloween Cookie Pops will be gobbled up before you know it!
Whip up candy corn-shaped cookies with ease using a basic butter cookie dough and food coloring. No rolling or cookie cutters required!
Transform traditional chocolate chip cookies into a fun and festive Halloween Cookie that everyone will love.
These Harry Potter Witch Hat Cookies are the perfect addition to your menu! You could also call them Sorting Hat cookies and do each Hogwarts' Houses' colors in sprinkles!
These Black Halloween Cookies are made with Black Cocoa, Butterscotch & Espresso. Chewy, rich and delicious, they're a halloween cookie for the kids and the grown ups too.
Learn how to decorate these incredibly easy, but incredible looking full moon sugar cookies for Halloween.
These bright and spooky cake mix cookies ooooze with Halloween fright! Meant to mimic hocus Pocus life potion- they’re perfect for Halloween movie night!
Easy and delicious jack skellington inspired oreo cookies!
Goblin Skillet Cookie is a giant, warm chocolate chip cookie filled with Ghoul Mix M&M's. It's fun, yummy, and a favorite treat for kids of all ages!
Make these mummy sugar cookies, perfect for a Halloween celebration!
These spooky Oreo cookies are dipped in candy melts and decorated to look like your favorite Halloween characters, like Frankenstein, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, and vampires. They're the perfect way to add Halloween characters to your celebration.
Easy Halloween Monster Cookies recipe. This quick and simple dessert idea is a great treat to celebrate the spooky season.