Halloween Dessert Ideas | Spooky Sweet Treats

Halloween dessert ideas, you can let your imagination run wild: try making some ghostly cupcakes, for example, or baking creepy-cute cookies and haunted monster-themed cakes.

When the leaves turn golden and appetites are ready for something more substantial than a piece of fruit, you know it is time to start finding good recipes such as these.

To give these treats their full flavor and unique texture, they were shot through with ideas in line with the season.

Halloween Dessert Ideas

Here’s a creative list of 60+ Halloween Dessert Ideas — spooky, fun, and perfect for parties or trick-or-treat gatherings:

Halloween Cakes

1. Haunted House Cake

2. Black Velvet Cake

3. Ghost-Topped Chocolate Cake

4. Monster Eye Cake

5. Pumpkin Spice Layer Cake

6. Spiderweb Cake (with piped chocolate webs)

7. Mummy-Wrapped Cake

8. Candy Corn Layer Cake

9. Jack-o’-Lantern Cake

10. Witch’s Hat Cake

11. Bloody Red Velvet Cake

12. Graveyard Dirt Cake

Halloween Cupcakes

13. Monster Face Cupcakes

14. Spider Cupcakes

15. Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

16. Mummy Cupcakes

17. Bat Wing Cupcakes

18. Candy Corn Cupcakes

19. Witch’s Brew Cupcakes

20. Black Cat Cupcakes

21. Zombie Brain Cupcakes

22. Bloody Eyeball Cupcakes

Cookies

23. Halloween Sugar Cookies (ghosts, pumpkins, bats)

24. Spiderweb Decorated Cookies

25. Monster Eye Cookies

26. Witch Finger Cookies (with almond fingernails)

27. Black Cat Shaped Cookies

28. Coffin-Shaped Cookies

29. Candy Corn Shortbread Cookies

30. Bloody Thumbprint Cookies

31. Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies

32. Skeleton Decorated Cookies

Brownies & Bars

33. Graveyard Brownies (cookie tombstones)

34. Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

35. Candy-Stuffed Brownie Bites

36. Mummy Brownie Pops

37. Spiderweb Fudge Brownies

38. Caramel Apple Blondies

39. Monster Mash Brownies

40. S’mores Brownie Bars

Pies, Tarts & Bites

41. Mini Pumpkin Hand Pies

42. Slime-Filled Hand Pies (green icing centers)

43. Spiderweb Chocolate Tart

44. Jack-o’-Lantern Apple Pies

45. Candy Corn Cheesecake Bites

46. Ghost Meringue Pies

47. Creepy Crawly Mini Tarts

Candies & Chocolates

48. Candy Eyeballs

49. Witch’s Chocolate Bark

50. Halloween Candy Apples (black, red, green)

51. Chocolate-Dipped Pretzel Broomsticks

52. Bloody Caramel Apples

53. Monster Claw Chocolate Bars

54. Chocolate Pumpkins (filled with ganache)

55. Candy Corn Fudge

No-Bake & Fun Treats

56. Dirt Cups with Gummy Worms

57. Monster Oreo Pops

58. Ghost Rice Krispies Treats

59. Graveyard Pudding Cups

60. Eyeball Cake Pops

Recipes

1. Ghost-Topped Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 chocolate cake (your favorite recipe)
• Marshmallow meringue frosting: 3 egg whites, ¾ cup sugar, ¼ tsp cream of tartar, 1 tsp vanilla
• Candy eyes

Instructions:

1. Bake a chocolate cake, then set it to cool.
2. Whisk egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar together over simmering water until stiff peaks form at which point vanilla is added then whisked in.
3. Paste meringue “ghosts” all over the cake and insert candy eyes.
4. Torches can be used to lightly toast it.

2. Monster Eye Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Vanilla cake layers
• Bright green buttercream
• Candy eyeballs (store-bought or homemade)

Instructions:

1. Coat, cook, and cool off the cake, meanwhile whipping up some green buttercream for frosting.
2. In addition, stick candy eyes randomly over the cake.
3. To create the look of a wild monster, pipe buttercream out of a mess of bags from many angles.

3. Pumpkin Spice Layer Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2½ cups flour
• 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 cup oil
• 1½ cups sugar
• 4 eggs

Instructions:

1. Set the oven to 350°F (175°C).
2. Mix all dry ingredients and whisk pumpkin, oil, sugar, and eggs together.
3. Left with just a battle, which you put in the preheated oven and bake for 25–30 minutes.
4. Frost with cinnamon cream cheese frosting.

4. Spiderweb Cake (with piped chocolate webs) Recipe

Ingredients:

• Dark chocolate cake layers
• White buttercream
• Melted dark chocolate for webs

Instructions:

1. Bake a chocolate cake and ice it with white buttercream.
2. Use thin lines of melted chocolate to draw circles over the top with a toothpick and drag from the center outward so they look like webs.

5. Mummy-Wrapped Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Chocolate or vanilla cake
• White buttercream
• Candy eyes

Instructions:

1. Bake cake, then ice with white buttercream.
2. Use thick bands of criss-crossing buttercream to look like ribbons over the top of the cake.
3. Two candy eyes peek out from between icing bands.

6. Candy Corn Layer Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• White cake batter is divided into three parts
• Yellow and orange food coloring
• White frosting

Instructions:

1. One portion of the batter is dyed white, another part orange and the rest yellow.
2. Each of these colors are baked separately as cake layers.
3. Put the yellow part on the bottom of the stack, then orange, then white on top.

7. Jack-o’-Lantern Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin spice or vanilla cake
• Orange buttercream
• Black fondant or chocolate for face features

Instructions:

1. Bake cake in two round cake pans.
2. Use fondant or white buttercream to create a face, and then, using powdered sugar, make lines for the patchwork.

8. Witch’s Hat Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Chocolate cake layers
• Black buttercream
• Sugar cone and a circle cookie for a hat

Instructions:

1. Stack the black buttercream-covered cake and crumb coat it in black buttercream.
2. Turn the cone upside down (covered in frosted black) and place it on a cookie to make its hat.
3. Finally, set the hat atop the cake.

9. Bloody Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Red velvet cake layers
• Cream cheese frosting
• Raspberry sauce (for “blood”)

Instructions:

1. Bake and frost the red velvet cake.
2. Then drizzle over the cake, leaving a trail of red liquid running off at one end. This is good for a gory effect.

10. Graveyard Dirt Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Chocolate cake
• Chocolate pudding
• Crushed chocolate cookies (for “dirt”)
• Cookie tombstones

Instructions:

1. Chocolate cake layered with pudding
2. Top with crushed cookies.
3. Decorate with cookie tombstones and candy bones.