22 Easy Halloween Cookie Recipes to Add a Sweet Fright to Your Festivities

Halloween season is almost here! Now would be the perfect time to start counting down to the dreaded season. We’ve already prepared it for you. Couples Halloween costumes and Halloween decorations, as well as Halloween nail art, baby Halloween costumes, Halloween dessert recipes, Halloween cookie recipes, and many more.

It’s time to embrace the fun and sweet elements of the spooky Halloween season. No one can argue with a tasty cookie recipe. So, why not make some Halloween cookies to pair with your best and favorite candy this year? From seasonal flavors like caramel apple cookies to festive decorations like candy corn cookies this list has all kinds of cookies that will make your kids squeal with delight, and this Halloween dessert will leave adults satisfied too. Grab your cookie sheet and start baking these delicious cookies. These Halloween treats are quick and easy to make at home.

You can choose from various cookie recipes, such as mummy-shaped iced cookies, spider cookies, and many others. Or, you can skip the scary stuff and go straight to pumpkin desserts and other fall cookie recipes. Try Ree Drummond’s twist on holiday gingerbread that turns into fun little kids’ haunted houses. It’s a great way to practice your decorating skills with Halloween sprinkles! So why wait? These 27 easy Halloween cookie recipes will make your Halloween season popular with children and adults.

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1. Peanut Butter Spider Cookie

I am sure these delicious spider cookies will make you smile. There are many variations of this peanut butter spider cookie, but I love this version the most because of the silly spider faces.

2. Vampire Gingerbread Cookies

This Halloween season, you’re bound to find your gingerbread cutter for the holidays anyway, so you can go ahead and use it to make these simple vampire gingerbread men.

3. Witch Hat Cookies

Witch Hat Cookies are a Halloween favorite, and these cute little no-bake desserts are so fun, quick, and easy to make that only require 4 ingredients and some creativity.

4. Black Cocoa Crinkle Cookies

These Black Cocoa Crinkle Cookies are soft and rich, and they are flavored with black cocoa powder! They use zero food coloring and are perfect for Halloween because they’re so fun, quick, and easy to make.

5. Chocolate Covered Halloween Dipped Oreos

These cute and sneaky chocolate-covered Halloween-dipped Oreos are perfect for your spooky parties! This no-bake dessert is sure to be a hit with your little monsters, and it’s quick and easy to make.

6. Gooey Monster Cookies

You can make deliciously cute and fun and festive cake mixes that look like cookie monsters. Gooey Monster cookies are great year-round, These Gooey Monster Cookies are super easy to make and are sure to be a hit.

7. Maple Mummy Cookies

These deliciously cute little mummy-decorated Super Soft Maple Cookies are the perfect treat for the Halloween season, and these Maple Mummy Cookies are so easy to make and sure to be a hit!

8. Coffin Sandwich Cookies

These easy coffin sandwich cookies look just like the real thing. This dessert can be made with just a few ingredients, and to get an aged wood effect, run a fork through the royal icing before setting it.

9. Halloween Chocolate Sugar Cookies

You make delicious, fun, and scary Halloween sugar cookies! They are made from classic soft-cut chocolate sugar cookies and decorated with simple sugar icing. These chocolate sugar cookies are so easy to make and sure to be a hit.

10. Little Ghost Sugar Cookies

These Easy Happy Little Ghost Sugar Cookies—bite-sized, quick, and deliciously cute—Halloween cutout cookies scream sweet with their happy little ghostly faces. A dessert you must try and make.

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11. Cutout Halloween Cookies

You’ll decorate cutout Halloween cookies with delicious, fun, and spooky Halloween royal icing and fondant, candy corn, bats, spiderwebs, ghosts, and more! These Cutout Halloween Cookies are simple to make and sure to be a hit.

12. Dracula’s Dentures for Halloween

This easy and delicious Dracula Dentures recipe is made with chocolate chip cookies, marshmallows, slivered almonds, and a little red frosting. A must-try dessert.

13. Chocolate Pumpkin Cut Out Cookies

Chocolate and pumpkin come together for a winning flavor combination in these delicious, fun, and spooky Halloween cookies. This is simple to make and will surely be a hit.

14. OREO Cookie Eyeballs

These delicious eye cookies are one of our favorite Halloween food crafts. These Cookie Eyeballs OREO eyes are fun to make, and kids will love to eat them, you should try them now.

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15. Halloween Bat Treats

Enjoy the crunchy taste of these Halloween Bat Oreos, a hint of melted white chocolate, and fun candy eyes. This can be made using only four ingredients and is a must-try dessert.

16. Dark Chocolate Halloween Chip Cookies

These delicious dark chocolate night cookies are filled with white chocolate chips and creamy peanut butter chips, making a frighteningly delicious treat that’s so easy to make that it’s sure to be a hit.

17. Peanut Butter Spider Cookies

These quick peanut butter spider cookies are adorable and delicious! Whether you’re making them for a party or eating them, they’re simple to make, and these Halloween cookies are sure to be a hit.

18. Milk Chocolate Stuffed Jack-O’-Lantern Cookies.

There’s nothing not to love about these Milk Chocolate Stuffed Jack-O’-Lantern Cookies. Perfect for a spooky Halloween night or just when you want a deliciously sweet chocolate-filled cookie for dinner.

19. Monster Eye Crinkle Cookies

You might want to add these Halloween monster eye crinkle cookies to your Halloween plans this year, and the best thing about making spooky Halloween treats is how fun they are and how quick and easy they are to make.

20. Candy Corn Cookies

This delectable sweet and salty candy corn cookie recipe is the perfect fall treat for when you want something other than pumpkin or apple flavor, and it’s so fun, quick, and easy to make.

21. Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies

These easy and delicious Halloween cookies are called Nutter Butter Ghosts, and they are easy to make with only 3 ingredients and no baking.

22. Halloween Pumpkin Cookies

When serving these pumpkin cookies, allow the top left and the pumpkin base on the right to dry completely. Fill the pumpkin cavity with small candies. Then share with family and friends!