Halloween Cookies Ideas | Spooky Sweet Treats

Halloween Cookies Ideas bring spooky fun and delicious creativity to your festive table. From classic sugar cookies decorated with ghosts, pumpkins, bats, and witches to chocolate spiderweb cookies and monster eye treats, there’s a design for every level of baker.

 

You can make soft pumpkin spice cookies with cream cheese frosting, black cat sandwich cookies filled with orange buttercream, or use cookie cutters to shape creepy creatures and frost them with colorful royal icing.

Try Oreo spiders or mummy cookies made with candy eyes and drizzled white chocolate for a quick, no-bake option. Halloween cookies are not only tasty but also a fun activity for kids and adults to decorate together, making them a perfect treat for parties, trick-or-treat bags, or cozy nights in.

Halloween Cookie Ideas

Here’s a spooky and sweet list of 30+ Halloween cookie ideas, perfect for baking fun and festive treats for parties, trick-or-treating, or family fun.

Classic Halloween-Themed Cookies

1. Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
2. Ghost-Shaped Sugar Cookies
3. Witch Hat Cookies
4. Black Cat Cookies
5. Bat-Shaped Cookies
6. Jack-o’-Lantern Cookies
7. Candy Corn Cookies
8. Coffin-Shaped Cookies
9. Haunted House Cookies
10. Witch Broom Cookies

Decorated Sugar & Royal Icing Cookies

1. Royal Icing Ghost Cookies
2. Frankenstein Face Cookies
3. Mummy Face Sugar Cookies
4. Eyeball Sugar Cookies
5. Spooky Graveyard Headstone Cookies
6. Zombie Hand Cookies
7. Skull Cookies with Icing
8. Cauldron Cookies with Green Goo
9. Vampire Fang Cookies
10. Spiderweb Iced Cookies

Chocolate-Based Cookies

1. Chocolate Spider Cookies
2. Double Chocolate Bat Cookies
3. Chocolate Coffin Cutouts
4. Black Cocoa Cat Cookies
5. Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies
6. Chocolate Eyeball Thumbprints
7. Fudgy Witch Hat Cookies
8. Chocolate Monster Cookies
9. Chocolate Ghost Dipped Cookies
10. Dark Chocolate Skull Cookies

No-Bake Halloween Cookies

1. No-Bake Oreo Spider Cookies
2. Nutter Butter Ghosts
3. Mummy Pretzel Cookies
4. Monster Rice Krispies Cookies
5. No-Bake Eyeball Truffles
6. Peanut Butter Web Cookies
7. Halloween Haystack Cookies
8. Witch’s Broomstick Pretzel Cookies
9. Pumpkin Spice Energy Bite Cookies
10. Chocolate Covered Ritz Mummies.

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 Recipes

1. Pumpkin Sugar Cookies Recipe

 

Ingredients:

1. 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
2. 1 tsp baking powder
3. ½ tsp salt
4. 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
5. 1 cup granulated sugar
6. 1 egg
7. 1 tsp vanilla extract
8. Orange gel food coloring
9. Green icing (for stems)

Instructions:

1. The oven should be preheated to 175°C (350°F). Line the baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
2. Cream butter and sugar together. Beat in egg, then vanilla.
3. Stir in the dry ingredients. Now tint the dough orange.
4. Roll out; cut into the shape of pumpkins. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
5. Cool and decorate the stems and features with green icing.

2. Ghost-Shaped Sugar Cookies Recipe

Decoration:

1. White royal icing
2. Black edible marker or gel for eyes and mouth

Instructions:

1. Cut out ghost shapes with a standard cookie cutter.
2. Bake as indicated. Cool thoroughly.
3. Yield with white icing. Allow to dry completely.
4. Ghostly faces can be drawn on with black gel or pen.

3. Witch Hat Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Chocolate cookies (or homemade)
2. Chocolate kisses
3. Orange or green frosting

Instructions:

1. At the Center of Each Cookie， place a dab of icing.
2. Set a chocolate kiss on top
3. White “Hat Ribbon.
4. Make a decorative band around the base of the cookie.

4. Black Cat Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Chocolate sugar cookie dough
2. Round cookie cutter
3. Black royal icing
4. Candy eyes or icing

Instructions:

1. Cut out circles. Then use a triangle-shaped cookie cutter to make the ears
2. Bake and let them cool. Then decorate with black frosting
3. Put in candy eyeballs and draw the cat’s nose and mouth with a decorating band.

5. Bat-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Chocolate or black cocoa cookie dough
2. Bat cookie cutter
3. Black royal icing
4. Candy eyes

Instructions:

1. Keep cool completely once done cutting and shaping the art shapes before cooking.
2. Add candy eyes. Then flood with black icing as desired.
3. Outline wings in white or purple if you like

6. Jack-o’-Lantern Cookies Recipe

Same sugar cookie dough as Pumpkin Cookies
Decoration:

1. Orange and green royal icing
2. Black icing for faces

Instructions:

1. Bake cookies. Flood with orange and green frosting.
2. When the frosting is dry, pipe on black faces to make jack-o’-lanterns. Use a pumpkin cutter.

7. Candy Corn Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Orange, yellow, and white food coloring

Instructions:

1. Cut the dough into three chunks: color one white, another yellow, and the third portion orange.
2. Take a loaf pan and layer like this: yellow first, then orange, and top off with a little white. Put it in a refrigerator or freezer for at least an hour to firm it up well before baking it.
3. Slice and cut into triangles. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes.
4. Optionally dip tips in chocolate or vanilla glaze and let harden before serving.

8. Coffin-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Chocolate sugar cookie dough
2. Coffin cookie cutter
3. White or silver royal icing

Instructions:

1. Fill it with black icing, allowing it to dry
2. Pipe a white cross, skull, or “RIP” onto the finished product as decoration.

9. Haunted House Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar or gingerbread cookie dough
2. Haunted house cutter
3. Black, purple, and orange royal icing

Instructions:

1. Cut ‘haunted house’ shapes. Bake and chill.
2. It will need you to close it with a spooky base color.
3. Then add details such as ghosts, windows, spider webs, and silhouettes for accent.

10. Witch Broom Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Pretzel sticks
2. Peanut butter or chocolate wafer cookies
3. Melted chocolate or frosting

Instructions:

1. Break wafer cookies into bristles.
2. Fasten to one end of the pretzel stick with frosting or melted chocolate.
3. After it sets, drizzle on chocolate for effect.

11. Royal Icing Ghost Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

For the Sugar Cookies:

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

For the Royal Icing:

• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp meringue powder
• 5–6 tbsp water (adjust for consistency)
• Black food coloring (gel preferred)

Instructions

Cookie Dough-Making Process:

• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Cream butter and sugar in another bowl for 2–3 minutes until light and fluffy.
• Mix in ethe gg and vanilla. Combine.
• Mix in the dry ingredients little by little until they come together to form a dough.
• Flatten the dough into a disc, wrap it tightly with cling wrap, and refrigerate for an hour at a minimum.

Baking the Cookies:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Roll out the dough to ¼ inch thick on a floured surface.
• Cut shapes with ghost-shaped cookie cutters.
• Place halfway on the baking sheets lined with parchment, and bake for eight to ten minutes.
• Let the cookies cool completely before decorating.

Icing:

• Mix powdered sugar and meringue powder, pour in water slowly, mixing to stiff peaks (for outlining).
• Thin out some icing with additional water to flood the interior of the cookies.
• Dye some icing black for the ghost’s eyes/mouth.

Decoration:

• Outline ghost shapes in thicker white icing; allow to set.
• Flood the interior with thinner white icing using a toothpick to spread evenly.
• Dot eyes and mouths in black using a piping bag or toothpick.
• Allow the cookies to dry completely (4 to 6 hours or overnight) before storing.