13 Scary Easy Halloween Treats

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Whether you’re looking for Halloween treats for a kid’s party or for a grown-up good time, there’s something for everyone here! Looking for spooky? There’s bats and mummy’s. Looking for easy? These desserts are seriously simple. Not to mention plenty of them could be easy to make ahead of time!

13 Wicked Easy Halloween Food Ideas for Kids & Adults

There’s nothing like a spooky-good Halloween treat to make your celebration extra special. This list of 13 easy Halloween recipes includes cookies, no-bake treats, cakes and more. So many fun options for one of the most fun holidays of the year.

Tools You May Need

Many of these treats are decked out with some mix of colors and spooky eyeballs. Here are a few of the most common things you may need for the recipes below:

  • Gel icing colors – The highly concentrated gels makes coloring food nice and easy, without thinning out whatever you’re making.
  • Spooky sprinkles – This eyeball sprinkle set comes with large and small eyeballs for all kinds of fun uses. There are also fun monster mash sprinkles that come with eyeballs mixed into colorful sprinkles.
  • Halloween dessert toppers – The little ghosts on the candy corn mini cheesecakes are adorable for all kinds of treats.
  • Candy coating – A variety of candy coatings are available, such as this white candy coating for things like the mummy rice Krispie treats.
  • Toppers – There are a variety of cake and cupcake toppers that would take any recipe up a level for Halloween with ease. These sparkly toppers are adorable and these Halloween toppers are perfectly spooky.

13 Spooky Halloween Recipes

Ready to get started? Here are 13 of my favorite Halloween treats to try:

Close up of a pile of brightly colored Halloween Monster Cookies with eyeballs.

Halloween Monster Cookies

These EYE-catching Halloween monster cookies are super soft and chewy. Kids and grown ups alike will find them monstrously fun with their vibrant colors, M&Ms and wacky eyeball sprinkles.

Two Mummy Rice Krispie Treats on orange and black straws in a glass filled with chocolate sprinkles.

Easy Mummy Rice Krispie Treats

These Mummy Rice Krispie Treats are such a fun Halloween party food idea! Made with only three ingredients, they’re the perfect easy recipe for Halloween parties.

Bat Oreo Cookie Balls with Oreo wings spread out on a black table top

Bat Oreo Cookie Balls

These Bat Oreo Cookie Balls are the perfect Halloween food idea for your next party! Learn how to make this fun & simple recipe with only a handful of ingredients!

Dirt Cake | AMAZING Chocolate Cake Recipe

Dirt Cake

This Dirt Cake is a moist chocolate cake filled with frosting that’s loaded with Oreos and layered with more Oreo crumbs! It’s even got gummy worms between the cake layers for a cake that’s creepy-crawly and perfect for Halloween!

red and black. marble cake slice with skull in the background

Spooky Halloween Marble Cake

This is the perfect Spooky Halloween Marble Cake for your Halloween parties! The red and black marble cake is decorated with drippy red “blood” with bloody bones and bloody eyeball sprinkles!

Mini Candy Corn Cheesecakes on a black table top surrounded by candy corn

Mini Candy Corn Cheesecakes

These Mini Candy Corn Cheesecakes are easy to make and such a fun Halloween dessert! If you’re looking for Halloween party food ideas, these are perfect for sharing.

Close up of a black bowl filled with Dirt and Worms Puppy Chow.

Dirt and Worms Puppy Chow

This Dirt and Worms Puppy Chow is a no bake dessert recipe that makes a creepy-crawly Halloween treat. It’s easy to make and filled with crushed Oreo ‘dirt’ and gummy worms!

A pumpkin cupcake with a bite taken out of it.

Pumpkin Cupcakes

These ultra-moist and fluffy Pumpkin Cupcakes are loaded with warming spices and topped with a generous helping of melt-in-your-mouth cream cheese frosting. Garnished with pumpkin candies, they are the perfect dessert for your next Halloween or Thanksgiving bash.

Chocolate cookies stuffed with buttercream frosting, covered with Oreo crumbs and topped with gummy worms

Dirt Cookie Cups

Chewy chocolate cookies, velvety chocolate buttercream, finely crushed Oreos and fruity gummy worms make these Dirt Cookie Cups a Halloween sensation! They’re super easy to make and fun to decorate.

Candy Corn Chocolate Chip cookie Cake slice on yellow plate

Candy Corn Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

This Candy Corn Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is perfect for a Halloween party or for baking with your kids. It’s easy to make, festive, and full of rich chocolate & chewy candy corn!

Spider Web Chocolate Tart close up

Spiderweb Chocolate Tart

This Spiderweb Chocolate Tart is such a fun dessert for Halloween, and it’s delightfully chocolatey! This spooky season treat is easy to make with no oven needed!

Spiderweb Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting on white cake stand

Spiderweb Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting

This Spiderweb-topped Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting is awesome chocolate cake recipe for Halloween! The cake alone is actually perfect for any time – super moist and delicious – but the fun decorations are perfect for a spook-tacular Halloween!

image of Candy Corn Icebox Cake

Candy Corn Icebox Cake

This Candy Corn Icebox Cake is such a fun, cute and tasty Halloween dessert idea! It’s completely no bake, and it’s full of delicious vanilla and buttery shortbread!

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