This collection of Halloween cookies will give you ideas for your next spooky baking session. You will learn how to decorate cookies with cute little ghosts, creepy spiders, colorful pumpkins, or cookies covered in Halloween sprinkles.

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This roundup gives you plenty of options to choose from, with easy recipes and edible decorations that make each batch fun to create. You can keep the designs simple with icing and candy eyes or add more detail with chocolate, frosting, and Halloween-themed toppings.
Common decorating ingredients include:
- Pretzels
- Royal icing
- Buttercream frosting
- Candy eyes
- Halloween sprinkles
- Chocolate chips
- Melted chocolate
- Food coloring
- Colored sugar
- Mini marshmallows
- Candy corn
- Gummy candies
For cookie bases you can start with these recipes:
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookies (3 ingredients only)
Spider Peanut Butter Cookies
Easy Spider Peanut Butter Cookies made with cake mix, mini Reese’s, and candy eyes. Perfect for Halloween parties and kid-friendly baking.
“Hocus Pocus” Halloween Cookies
Magical Halloween Cookies are filled with a delicious green "witches brew" frosting! Inspired by one of our favorite classic Halloween movies: Hocus Pocus!
Dirt Cake Cookies with Gummy Worms
These dirt cake cookies have Nutella frosting, crushed Oreo dirt, and gummy worms. Perfect for Halloween, Easter, or any spring party!
Halloween Crinkle Cookies
These Halloween crinkle cookies are cake mix based, brightly coloured and crackled with sugar. Fun to make and perfect for spooky treats.
Zombie Cookies
These zombie cookies are perfect for Halloween! They're incredibly soft and are decorated w/ delicious homemade buttercream frosting.
Red Velvet Halloween Spider Cookies
These spooky red velvet Halloween spider cookies are perfect for Halloween! They're easy to make, soft and gooey, and loaded with chocolate!
Easy Halloween Witch Hat Cookies (Made With Cake Mix)
Easy Halloween Witch Hat Cookies are made with cake mix and Hershey's Kisses. They are a great make-ahead cookie for Halloween parties.
Halloween Eyeball Cookies
Halloween Monster Eyeball Cookies are easy to make with 3 ingredients and 15 minutes. Kids love making these Halloween cookies on their own!
Frankenstein Wafer Cookies (No Bake)
Get into the Halloween spirit with this adorable Frankenstein wafer cookie recipe. They're kid friendly for parties or just a spooky treat!
Pumpkin Patch Cookies
These mini Pumpkin Patch Cookies, made with chocolate frosted cookies, Oreo cookie crumbs, candy pumpkins, and white chocolate vines, are a fall favorite.
halloween “in the house”: blood splattered cookies
These "blood splattered" cookies are super realistic - and super easy to make too!
Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: 8 halloween chocolate chip cookies Total time: 1 hr. 10 min.
Black Cat Cookies
Make black cat cookies this Halloween! Chocolate dough is topped with melted chocolate and sprinkles to make these cute cat silhouettes.
Halloween Mummy Oreo Cookies
These Halloween Mummy Oreo Cookies are one of the cutest -- and easiest -- homemade Halloween treats to make for spooky season.
Halloween Monster Eye Cookies
These Halloween Monster Eye Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with candy eyes — an easy no-chill Halloween treat kids love to help make!
Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies
Make Nutter Butter ghost cookies with four ingredients and no oven. Dip, decorate, and let them set for a simple Halloween party treat kids can help make.
No-Bake Peanut Butter Cornflake Cookies
No-bake peanut butter cornflake cookies are a frugal, fun Halloween treat using leftovers that kids can help make and decorate.
Halloween Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Halloween sugar cookies are the perfect spooky Halloween party treat! The cream cheese frosting is fun to decorate.
Pumpkin Spice Mummy Cookies
These spooky-cute vegan pumpkin spice mummy cookies are refined sugar-free, gluten-free, and perfect for Halloween! Made with wholesome ingredients and topped with creamy cashew frosting bandages. Kid-approved!
Monster Mash Cookies (Vegan)
Make these chocolate Monster Mash Cookies in one bowl in 40 minutes! This easy recipe makes 9 soft, chewy Halloween cookies decorated with candy eyes.
Bat-Shaped No Bake Cookies
Keep it easy with these No Bake Halloween Cookies that are bat-shaped! They're easy enough for kids to make & perfect for parties.
Halloween Witch Cookies [Stuffed!]
Soft and gooey, these Halloween witch cookies are stuffed with candies to make them the perfect spooky dessert for parties or movie night.
Spiderweb Cookies
These Spiderweb Cookies are the perfect spooky snack! Made with 2 ingredients, they're gluten free, nut free, eggless and easily vegan!
Jack Skellington Cookies
Bake soft Jack Skellington cookies with an easy cake mix base and white chocolate frosting. Perfect for Halloween parties and spooky fun!
Oreo Cookie Spiders
Kids love to make and eat these Oreo Cookie Spiders. Made with Oreo cookies, pretzel sticks, and candy eyes, they are an easy and fun Halloween treat.
Halloween Sprinkle Cookies
Halloween sprinkle cookies are soft vanilla cookies topped with a generous coating of Halloween candy sprinkles. Easy Halloween dessert!
Mummy Sugar Cookies
Mummy sugar cookies are soft homemade vanilla sugar cookies topped with royal icing and candy eyes for a fun Halloween dessert or treat.
Halloween Monster Cookies
Halloween Monster Cookies are delicious, soft, colorful cake mix cookies with cute candy eyeballs. Easy to make fun Halloween party treats!
Halloween Bat Cookies (No Bake)
These easy Halloween Cookies are so fun and festive! Just 4 ingredients and a few minutes are all you need to make spooky no bake bat cookies.
Halloween Ghost Biscotti
Looking for a fun Halloween treat that's a little different from the usual decorated sugar cookies? These adorable ghost biscotti are crisp, twice-baked
Spooky Witch Finger Cookies (Halloween Cookies)
Treat yourself to this Spooky Witch Finger Cookies recipe! With creepy almond nails & bloody jam, they're the ultimate Halloween trick-or-treat.
Halloween Skeleton Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Make your Halloween extra spooky and fun with our chocolate skeleton cookies! Easy to bake and decorate, they're perfect for getting the whole family involved.
Skeleton Thumbprint Cookies
Make Halloween a real treat with these fun skeleton thumbprint cookies! The dough doesn’t require chilling and won’t spread during baking.
Spooky Vegan Halloween Cookies
These Vegan Halloween Cookies are monstrously fun! Naturally colored with no food dyes or artificial flavors. Perfect for Halloween parties!






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