Easy Halloween Desserts {Cute & Spooky}

Collection of the best easy Halloween desserts for kids and adults. Lots of fun, cute and spooky cakes, cupcakes, cookies and no bake desserts are included.

Before I start posting all of my new recipes for creepy treats, I decided to gather all of my favorite spooky treats from the last few years and share them here. They are all in one place and you can easily refer back to this post, if you are looking for something quickly. If perfectly curated is your thing, then look no further than this Owl Cake (And Kids Halloween Party) where you can find lots of inspiration.

How To Decorate Halloween Cakes And Other Desserts?

• Candies- Such as candy corn, seasonal pumpkin candies, Halloween suckers, ghost or pumpkin marshmallows, or candy eyeballs.
• Sprinkles- Use sprinkles that match the Halloween theme in color or store-bought Halloween sprinkles.
• Cookies- Such as Oreos crushed to look like dirt or decorated like a spider. Or half a Milano cookie decorated as a headstone.
• Fondant- Use my Marshmallow Fondant and cut it into Halloween shapes and designs using stencils or your artistic free hands!
• Colorful buttercream icing- Like this Easy Mint Frosting, Maraschino Cherry Frosting, Blackberry Buttercream Frosting, Mango Frosting, or this Easy Orange Frosting and this creepy Homemade Black Icing (Buttercream Frosting).
• Store bought edible royal icing figures- Like mummies, ghosts, spiders, monsters, or gravestones.
• Fruit- Turn bananas into ghost, clementines into pumpkins, grapes into eyeballs, etc.

Popular Halloween colors

• Black
• Purple
• Orange
• Red
• Yellow
• Green (neon slime color)

Use gel or liquid food coloring to tint your cake, cupcake batters, cookie doughs and frostings the relevant color.

Storage of Halloween Treats

• These desserts will require different storage options based on the contents of the ingredients.
• Refrigerate- Desserts containing dairy and fresh fruits such as cakes, cupcakes, and puddings should be stored in a sealed container or covered in the fridge for 2-3 days.
• Room temperature- Cookies can be stored in a cookie jar for up to 2-3 days.

Spooky Cakes

These cakes will bring the perfect air of spookiness and magic to your next party, and will be delicious to eat too. Most of them are actually way easier to make than they look. They will impress all those party guests with their looks and their taste!

• Easy Halloween Candy Cake- Great way to use up leftover candies too!
• Halloween Mummy Cake- Decorated with white buttercream icing and candies.
• Easy Halloween Eyeball Cake- Super spooky and cool to serve at parties.
• Easy Monster Cake- Decorated with orange frosting and candies.
• Easy Candy Corn Cake- Made with orange, yellow and white frosting.
• Easy Spider Cake (Spider Web Cake)- Topped with Oreo spiders and candy web.
• Easy Halloween Cake (Twizzler Cake)- Frosted chocolate cake is decorated with orange, yellow, black licorice.

Fun Halloween Cookies

These hand held treats will have everyone "oooohhhhing" over them. These cookies pack some major cute appeal and are perfect for treat bags, or on display at your next party.

• Leftover Halloween Candy Cookies- Fun to make with kids.
• Easy Monster Cookies (Candy Corn Cookies)-  Triangle shaped candy corn inspired chocolate sugar cookies are piped with buttercream icing.
• Ghost Cookies- So easy and fun to make with kiddos.
• Oreo Spider Cookies- No bake and made with oreos, sprinkles, candies.
• Easy Reese's Cookies (With Cake Mix)- Full of mini peanut butter cups and Reeses pieces.
• Chocolate Rolo Cookies- Crispy on the outside but soft and fudgy on the inside
• Easy Halloween Cookies (Dracula and Vampire)- Made with graham crackers or sugar cookies, fondant, edible markers.

Easy Halloween Cupcakes

These masterpiece cupcakes are about as easy as they come to make. They are so easy that even your youngest child can help in some way or another.

• Easy Halloween Monster Cupcakes- All you need is melted chocolate, candies and cereal.
• Easy Halloween Spider Web Cupcakes- Melted white chocolate is used to make an edible web.

No Bake Desserts

• Easy Halloween Pudding Cups- Make a Ghost, Jack O'Lantern, Frankenstein, Monster, Dracula.
• Homemade Candy Eyes (Eyeballs)- Made with just m&m candies and edible markers.
• Halloween Treat Bags (Candy Goodie Bags)- These work great as party favors too.
• Easy Chocolate Spiders- Made with Rolos, black licorice, and white chocolate chips.
• Halloween Chocolate Monsters- Fun edible craft to do with kids.
• Halloween Donuts (Spider and Monster)- Let your creativity run wild and come with your own fun designs.

My favorite Halloween Dessert- Candy Corn S'mores

My favorite treat to enjoy during this spooky season are these candy corn s'mores. They are so ooey gooey and delicious and super simple to make, especially with kids. You can replace candy corns with other seasonal candies, if you like. Consider setting up a s'mores bar with lots of toppings and even different cookies and guests can get as creative as they like and come up with their own fun creations.

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