Forgetting to plan a dessert for Halloween can be quite the fright—and not the fun kind.
These effortless Halloween desserts are all treats and no tricks:
Spooky Monster Cupcakes
Spooky monster cupcakes will satisfy all your Halloween cravings. Prepare a batch of chocolate box mix cupcakes and allow them to fully cool before decorating. You can use fondant, icing, Oreos, and Mellowcreme pumpkins to create adorable ghosts, mummies, skeletons, and spiders.
Spooky Monster Cupcakes Recipe
Hot Chocolate Spoons
Cozy up with hot chocolate spoons this Halloween. This recipe couldn’t be more straightforward—you only need spoons, chocolate, and your favorite toppings. Use festive green, orange, and purple sprinkles to increase the spooky factor.
Witch Finger Cookies
These witch finger cookies may look frightening, but they’re surprisingly delicious. The recipe is simple: shortbread cookie dough dyed green with food coloring. The “fingernails” give them a creepy twist, but they are just sliced almonds and cherry jam.
Rice Krispie Treat Monsters
These Rice Krispie treat monsters will hit the spot this Halloween. You can make the crisped rice bars from scratch or save time by buying pre-made treats. Involve the entire family in decorating them with candy melts and edible googly eyes.
Rice Krispie Treat Monsters Recipe
Halloween Bark
Everyone will love this easy-to-make Halloween bark. Simply melt chocolate on the stove, spread it out, and top it with candy corn, sprinkles, and other festive sweets.
You can also microwave the chocolate to simplify things further. Store the bark in your fridge until ready to serve—it will be fully chilled in about 30 minutes.
Halloween Cake Pops
Cake pops are a hit year-round, but this pumpkin version will become an instant Halloween classic. The recipe uses a box mix for ultimate convenience. Then, you form the cake balls, dip them in orange candy melts, and create a stem and jack-o’-lantern face with dyed frosting.
Candied Apples
A Halloween celebration would be incomplete without candied apples. This dessert will remind you of your childhood, but with a kick. The recipe incorporates red cinnamon candies for an addictively sweet yet spicy flavor combination.
Pumpkin Spice Puppy Chow
This pumpkin spice puppy chow is irresistibly snackable—perfect for an at-home Halloween movie night. Traditional puppy chow uses peanut butter and chocolate, but this version adds a festive twist with candy melts and fall spices. Add mini Mellowcreme pumpkins for a nostalgic finishing touch.
Pumpkin Spice Puppy Chow Recipe
Brownie Dirt Pudding
A cup of brownie dirt pudding is the perfect Halloween sweet treat. The single-serve pudding desserts are incredibly fun to decorate with kids. You can turn each cup into a mini graveyard with headstone decorations and mini Halloween candies.
Spooky Halloween Pretzels
These spooky Halloween pretzels are a must for your festivities. The pretzels are crunchy and salty, a delicious pairing with the sweet chocolate and candy toppings. For instance, you can use Oreos, black licorice pieces, and M&M’s to make ghosts and mummies.
Spooky Halloween Pretzels Recipe
Marshmallow Popcorn Balls
You only need five ingredients to make marshmallow popcorn balls for Halloween. You combine melted butter and marshmallows with popped corn kernels and let the mixture cool before forming into balls. They’re delicious plain, but you can add Reese’s Pieces or candy corn for a spooky effect.
Marshmallow Popcorn Balls Recipe
Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
Impress all your party guests with these Halloween peanut butter spider cookies. The base is a straightforward peanut butter cookie. To create the faux spiders, top each one with a peanut butter cup or truffle and candy eyes, and use melted chocolate for the legs.
Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies Recipe
White Chocolate Ghosts
With these two-ingredient white chocolate ghosts, you’ll never have to worry about planning for Halloween again. Decorate each treat with chocolate icing to make the ghostly features, and chill them flat on a tray or with sticks if you plan to serve them as dessert toppers. Be sure to use high-quality white chocolate for the best taste possible.
Mummy Brownies
Elevate boring brownies with a fun mummy design to celebrate the spooky season. Prepare a pan of homemade brownies—or use a box mix to keep things simple—and make cream cheese icing to top each treat. Drizzle the icing diagonally across each brownie square and add candy eyes for a creepy effect.
Halloween Goody Bars
If you have a lot of extra Halloween candy, these goody bars will put it to good use. The base is a simple oat and nut mixture topped with rich chocolate. Top the bars with festive candy pieces, bake, and thoroughly chill in the fridge or freezer.
Savor all things pumpkin this fall
Pumpkin can be enjoyed in more ways than lattes and pie. These pumpkin recipes will make this season the most delicious one yet.
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Enjoy fall flavors without the extra guilt
Comforting seasonal foods don’t have to be bad for you. Cozy up with these guilt-free fall recipes.
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Elise Armitage is an entrepreneur and founder of What The Fab, a travel + lifestyle blog based in California. At the beginning of 2019, Elise left her corporate job at Google to chase her dreams: being an entrepreneur and helping women find fabulous in the everyday. Since then, she’s launched her SEO course Six-Figure SEO, where she teaches bloggers how to create a passive revenue stream from their website using SEO. Featured in publications like Forbes, Elle, HerMoney, and Real Simple, Elise is a firm believer that you can be of both substance and style.
