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Halloween Desserts: 30 easy, spooky sweet treats to enjoy at a Halloween party
For the upcoming October 31st party, make spooky, easy Halloween desserts. Choose from cupcakes, cakes, cookies and decorate them like your favorite monsters just like the tradition.
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When planning a Halloween party, don't forget about desserts. On October 31st is a holiday loved by both children and adults, and whether you love to dress up or not, celebrating is always a good idea. Start your party with fun, festive appetizers and end with spooky, easy-to-make Halloween desserts.
Surprise your guests – children or adults – with sweet treats that are creepy yet delicious. Get ahead of the curve and make bootiful desserts that are themed decorated. You can't miss cute Halloween cupcakes, brownies, cake pops, cakes and traditional cookies that take the shapes of scary monsters such as vampires, zombies, mummies, ghosts and pumpkins. However, you can't go wrong by serving yummy desserts made with pumpkin, apple or other seasonal ingredients.
So, what are you waiting for? Fire up the oven and get ready to create yummy treats from these 30 Halloween desserts we've come up with for you.
1. Halloween Cupcakes: a fun dessert to create scary, delicious monsters 
Halloween cupcakes are festive, spooky sweet treats perfect for Halloween. Fluffy and moist on the inside, decorate them like scary pumpkins, mummies, Frankensteins, or ghosts.
Read the recipe 2. Halloween Cake Pops: a festive, bite-sized recipe to make this Halloween 
Halloween cake pops are the perfect spooky sweet treat to serve at a party. Dip the cake balls in melted colored candy and decorate them like Halloween monsters.
Read the recipe 3. Spider Web Cake: the delicious chocolate dessert for Halloween 
Spider web cake is a moist dessert recipe perfect for Halloween. This chocolate cake is covered with a chocolate glaze and decorated with a white chocolate spider web.
Read the recipe 4. Pumpkin Bars: the sweet yet tangy dessert recipe for your fall 
Pumpkin bars are an easy dessert recipe perfect to enjoy during fall season. They're moist, spiced on the inside and topped with a fluffy layer of tangy cream cheese frosting.
Read the recipe 5. Candy Corn Cookies: the ultimate baked treat for candy corn fans 
Candy corn cookies are a buttery, chewy recipe perfect for Halloween. With a slightly crispy outside and a tender center, they're packed with white chocolate chips and sweet candy corns.
Read the recipe 6. Vampire Cookies: the ghoulish Dracula dentures to make this Halloween 
Vampire cookies are an easy, spooky sweet treats for Halloween. It's made of a chocolate chip cookie mouth, red frosting blood, mini marshmallow teeth and slivered almonds fangs.
Read the recipe 7. Pumpkin Cake: the easy, tasty recipe for a beautiful fall dessert 
Pumpkin cake is an easy dessert perfect for fall season. It's made from a single layer of moist pumpkin cake seasoned with baking spices, then topped with cream cheese frosting.
Read the recipe 8. Halloween Sugar Cookies: the impressive Halloween sweet treat kids will love 
Halloween sugar cookies are a kid-friendly sweet treat to enjoy for a party. With crisp edges and a soft center, decorate these cookies as spooky, colorful monsters.
Read the recipe 9. Candy Apples: the effortless recipe for making sugar-coated apples 
Candy apples are an easy, sweet fall dessert. Dip whole apples into a red sugar-coating mixture, let them harden until crisp and hold them with the stick inserted at the top.
Read the recipe 10. Witch Hat Cookies: a spooky festive treat for your Halloween party 
Witch hat cookies are the perfect kid-friendly sweet treat to make this Halloween. These chocolate cookies are topped with colored icing, yellow Wilton candy melts and a Hershey's kiss.
Read the recipe 11. Buckeye Bites: a perfect dessert for parties and potlucks 
Peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven. There are dozens of wonderful ways to combine the two, but one of the all-time most popular peanut butter and chocolate recipes out there is buckeye bites. The name comes from this toothsome sweet's resemblance to the buckeye nut.
Read the recipe 12. Apple Pie Cupcakes: a delicious cupcake recipe made from apple pie 
There's nothing like freshly baked apple pie when the weather starts to dip. The only thing that might be better than apple pie? Apple pie cupcakes! These incredibly soft, fluffy cupcakes are packed with the same irresistible apple pie filling as the iconic autumn dessert, and topped with decadent creamy frosting.
Read the recipe 13. Marshmallow Ghost Cookies: the spooky sweet treat to make this Halloween 
Marshmallow ghost cookies are a fun, easy sweet treat perfect for Halloween. Sweet and fluffy, they're like a melted ghosts perched on a crisp cookie base.
Read the recipe 14. Pumpkin Roll: the simple recipe for a beautiful autumn dessert 
If you're saving your pumpkin pie to show off at Thanksgiving dinner, but still want to make the most out of this tasty seasonal squash, why not try making a classic pumpkin roll? This easy fall dessert is light, fluffy, and full of that wonderful pumpkin and baking spice flavor so many of us associate with autumn.
Read the recipe 15. Apple Cake: the light dessert recipe made with crisp apple chunks 
Apple cake or apple pie? This time we chose apple cake! It's a light, fluffy dessert perfect for fall. Super easy to make, it's rich in crisp apple chunks on the inside.
Read the recipe 16. Pumpkin Cupcakes: the best autumn cupcake recipe to make right now 
These pumpkin cupcakes are a delicious fall dessert. Lightly spiced and sweet, they're fluffy, moist and topped with tangy-sweet cream cheese frosting.
Read the recipe 17. Witch Fingers: an easy creepy cookie recipe to make for your Halloween party 
Witch fingers are a great spooky sweet for a Halloween party. With strawberry jam blood and sliced almond fingernail, they're made of a buttery shortbread cookie base.
Read the recipe 18. Pumpkin Brownies: the sweet, fudgy baked treat to make this autumn 
Pumpkin brownies are a chewy, fudgy recipe perfect for fall season. They combine chocolate and sweet pumpkin seasoned with warming baking spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.
Read the recipe 19. Caramel Apple Cookies: the decadent autumn cookies everyone will love 
Caramel apple cookies are a fabulous dessert recipe, perfect for autumn. With their decadent frosting, they're soft and chewy with a lightly crispy outside.
Read the recipe 20. Halloween Cheesecake: the tasty, impressive dessert recipe for your spooky party 
Halloween cheesecake is a rich dessert perfect for a party. It's made with a crisp crust, a creamy pumpkin filling and topped with spooky, edible decorations.
Read the recipe 21. Candy Corn Fudge: the easy, no-bake fudge recipe 
Candy corn is a popular Halloween treat in the United States. It’s a small, triangular candy divided into three different colors. During the fall and Halloween season, it’s one of the most popular candy types. This Candy Corn Fudge is an easy, no-bake fudge recipe inspired by that famous Halloween candy.
Read the recipe 22. Pumpkin Cookies: the perfect iced cookie recipe to make this fall 
Pumpkin cookies are a sweet, lightly spiced recipe perfect for fall season. Crisp around the sides and with a soft, chewy center, these cookies are topped with a smooth glaze.
Read the recipe 23. Halloween Hand Pies: the fun, delicious dessert recipe kids will love 
Halloween hand pies are a spooky, impressive sweet treat to serve at a Halloween party. Quick and easy to make, you need puff pastry, and jam for the fake blood.
Read the recipe 24. Caramel Fudge Truffles: the simple recipe for decadent homemade sweets 
Luxurious salted caramel coated in rich chocolate? Yes, please! These caramel fudge truffles will be a hit with anyone who tries one. Made with sugar, white chocolate, and butter, the caramel center is decadently sweet, a little creamy, and completely delicious, especially when coupled with the fudgy chocolate layer.
Read the recipe 25. Pumpkin Whoopie Pies: the decadent, delicious sandwich cookies to make this fall 
Pumpkin whoopie pies are delicious sandwich cookies, a fall version of classic whoopie pies. They're soft, spiced pumpkin cookies packed with a sweet, tangy cream cheese filling.
Read the recipe 26. Chocolate Mice: the fun, sweet dessert recipe kids will love 
Chocolate mice are a fun, kid-friendly dessert perfect for the holidays. They're made of chocolate cookie crumbs, sour cream and melted chocolate, then shaped like a mouse.
Read the recipe 27. Soul Cake: the tasty traditional English treat to Make All Souls’ Day 
Soul cakes (or soulmass cakes) are a delicious English baked treat halfway between a British scone and a biscuit. They're traditionally made for Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls' Day.
Read the recipe 28. Puffed Rice Pumpkins: the sweet recipe for a funny Halloween treat 
Puffed Rice treats (also known as Rice Krispy treats) are a real treat no matter what time of year you eat them. But why not make them specially themed according to Halloween? These spooky Puffed Rice Pumpkins will be the perfect treat on your table this season.
Read the recipe 29. Homemade Peanut Butter Cups 
Homemade Peanut butter cups are so easy to make at home that there is no need to purchase premade, candy aisle ones anymore. Making peanut butter cups also enables you to use high quality chocolate and all natural peanut butter- no corn syrup or additives here!
Read the recipe 30. Pumpkin Cheesecake: a decadent creamy recipe for autumn 
With its rich, creamy pumpkin filling, buttery spiced crust, and lighter than air whipped cream topping, nothing says “fall is here” like this pumpkin cheesecake.
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