If there’s any time of the year that screams “baked goods and sweet things,” it’s Halloween!
Sure, we give out candy to trick-or-treaters, but these Halloween cookies are also great options for Halloween parties or making for the family as you catch up on endless reruns of Halloween Town.
With varying degrees of difficulty and tons of options including witch hat cookies, ghost cookies, monster cookies and more, these Halloween cookie recipes are the perfect way to celebrate this festive and creative time of year.
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Must-Have Baking Tools (seriously)
- Silicone baking mats – I use this brand and my cookies slide right off without burning!
- a cookie scoop – get this one. It makes the perfect rounded cookies every time!
- silicone spatula – try this set. It’s the best way to get the most out of your dough and batters
- rolling pin guides – I use this one. Genius way to roll your dough out evenly!
Spooky Halloween Cookies
These Halloween cookies are spooky, fun, and super festive to make for your next Halloween party or to give out to trick-or-treaters.
A healthier cookie option for your little ones this halloween to balance out all the treats. With hidden chickpeas, and nutrients that no one would guess were in there!
Filled with chocolate goodness and the fun colors of the movie Hocus Pocus, these Hocus Pocus cookies are perfect for any Halloween watch party.
These decorated witch cauldron cookies are perfect for Halloween! With candy eyes, they are creepy and fun.
These adorable witch's hat cookies are fun to decorate and can be customized with your favorite colors or to match your costume!
Beautiful and simple, these pumpkin oreos are easy to make for Halloween parties and can be adapted to any kind of Fall event.
Candy corn itself might be polarizing, but everyone will love these adorable candy corn cookies that are also easy to make!
EASY Halloween Spider Cookies - Halloween project & treat all in one!
These creepy crawly spider cookies taste as good as they look, and the use of Reese's cups is a bonus for any peanut butter lovers out there.
Witches Hats {w/ Oreo Cookies} Only 4 Ingredients NO BAKING INVOLVED!
Looking for a no bake Halloween cookie? All you need for this is 4 ingredients and some kids to help you assemble the tasty witch's hats!
Drenched with maple flavoring and adorably dressed in their mummy wraps, these cookies are a unique take on Halloween cookies that will impress your friends!
If you're looking for some gluten free Halloween cookie options, these cute meringue ghosts are a huge hit and fun for everyone.
You can be sure that bats are one of the spookiest creatures on the night of Halloween, and these cute cookies give them their time to shine!
Creative and spooky, these creatures in the wall cookies can be customized to be as fun or as creepy as you want!
Intricate and detailed, these Halloween cookies are great to give as gifts at Halloween parties and other special autumn events.
A box of brownie mix plus festive Halloween candies easily combine to create decadently delicious brownie cookies aka brookies that are sure to be a hit! No tricks, all treats!
Green Cyclopes Cookies are delicious and fun. The kids love them during the Halloween season.
Enjoy this easy to follow recipe and have fun icing these super cute googely eyed spider cookies!
Vegans can get in on the Halloween cookie fun with these vegan pumpkin sugar cookies. Soft, delicious, and great for a variety of diets!
An easy recipe for double chocolate peanut butter cookies that are thick, soft, cakey & heavenly straight out of the oven. Make a batch in about 20 minutes start to finish with simple ingredients from your fridge & pantry, then decorate the tops with melted white chocolate & candy eyes for a "cute" Mummy theme that's perfect for Halloween.
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Using royal icing and sugar cookie dough, these decorated Halloween cookies are as festive as they are sophisticiated.
These super cute cat cookies with their candy corn eyes are the perfect way to celebrate the Halloween season.
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Sugar skull cookies for your Halloween and day of the dead sweet celebrations!
Halloween and Disney magic wrapped (pun intended)into a cute mummy cookie!
These gluten-free Halloween Cut Out Cookies are perfect for a party. Allergy-friendly and nobody will know they are gluten free!
These adorable Mummy Cookies are a spooktacular Halloween treat! Easy to make, your little ghouls and goblins will love these delicious Halloween cookies.
If you are looking for a special treat your children can give their friends at school for Halloween, these Pumpkin Cookies are the ones to make! Simply put one in a plastic bag and tie with an orange ribbon!
All geared up for Halloween? Need some quick treats? Here is my easiest 3 ingredient shortbread Spiderweb cookies. This is not a frosted cookie as the usual one. Learn how to make spiderweb without frosting.
Spooky and realistic wicked witch finger cookies!
These fun mummy meringue cookies are light as air and melt-in-your-mouth treats, perfect for your Halloween party!
These Halloween peanut butter spider cookies are as delicious as they are spooky! Enjoy a peanut butter and oat cookie that's packed with chocolate chips and decorated to feature spiders and flies! What a creepy, crawly treat!
These Gluten-Free Vegan Pumpkin Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy, fragrantly spiced and covered in a rich, tangy “cream cheese” frosting. Also refined sugar free.
Whip up a batch of easy Halloween sugar cookies with a Tim Burton twist thanks to food coloring and chocolate stitches inspired by Sally's dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Turn a basic batch of meringue cookies into adorable edible monsters inspired by Blobby from Hotel Transylvania with candy eyes, bright lemon flavoring and cheerful food coloring.
These Sweet and Salty Candy Corn Cookies are the perfect Fall treat for when you want something besides pumpkin or apple! The base recipe is Paradise Bakery’s world-famous sugar cookie recipe, and I give 15 different variations on it so you can use this delicious recipe year-round!
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