These Halloween cookie recipes are frighteningly delicious and will put you in the Halloween spirit whether you enjoy baking with spooky sprinkles or seasonal candy.
Looking for more Halloween recipes? Try these easy Halloween desserts, my favorite Halloween recipes and or these healthy Halloween snack ideas.
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Recipes for Halloween Cookies
These Halloween cookie recipes are boo-ti-ful and will bring spooky excitement to friends, family and parties this season. While Halloween often revolves candy, these cookies are scary-easy recipes that your ghosts and goblins will gobble up!
Complete your Halloween menu with Halloween pizzas and witches brew and if you are carving pumpkins at your Halloween party save the seeds for roasted pumpkin seeds.
Halloween Cookie Party Ideas
Tips for Making Halloween Cookies
- Decorate with sprinkles: If your cookie didn’t turn out exactly how you like use fun Halloween sprinkles or match the icing to the sprinkles to cover up imperfections.
- Baking with sprinkles. If you are adding sprinkles to cookie dough, like I do with my chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles, use Jimmies or confetti sprinkles as they don’t bleed. Wait to press candy eyes on after baking.
- Piping bags. I love to use this sugar cookie icing with a piping bag but you can use an offset spatula or butter knife, too.
- Professional touch: Lean how to use royal icing! With a little practice your frosted Halloween cookies will look like they came from a bakery.
- Don’t over bake your cookies. To ensure your cookies stay soft, underbake them by 1 minute and then remove from the hot pan to the cooling rack as soon as possible.
- Chill dough. Most cookie dough can benefit from chilling in the fridge! If you love a chewy cookie that doesn’t spread, chill the dough for a few hours or overnight.
- Storing Halloween cookies: If your Halloween cookies are frosted avoid stacking them to prevent smushed designs.
Cute Halloween Cookies
I love these cute Halloween cookie ideas. If you need some additional treat ideas try easy Halloween Rice Krispie treats and Halloween cake pops, too!
- Witch Hat Cookies: All you need for these no-bake cookies are a pack of fudge striped cookies, Hershey Kisses, frosting and sprinkles.
- Gooey Butter Cookies: Turn my favorite cake mix cookie into a monster cookie with some food dye and candy eyes!
- BEST M&M Cookies: Swap original M&Ms for colorful seasonal colors in autumn hues!
- Halloween Chocolate M&M Cookies: Swap regular M&Ms for your favorite fall M&Ms to make these delicious chocolatey cookies!
- Chocolate Whoopie Pies: Simply tint the cream cheese frosting orange and these sandwich cookies will be the hit of the party!
- Oreo Cookie Spiders: Make cute spiders with your kids using Halloween Oreos, pretzels, candy corn, marshmallows and a dab of black frosting.
- Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters: Peanut butter pudding cookies get a festive update to them by adding Halloween jimmie sprinkles and candy eyes.
Spooky Halloween Cookies
If slightly spooky Halloween cookies are more your style, you will also love Graveyard dirt cake, strawberry ghosts and Halloween brownies, too!
Halloween Sugar Cookies
If you love Christmas sugar cookies, you will love to make Halloween sugar cookies with your kids! Add these Halloween Oreo Balls to your baking plans this season, too.
- Halloween Sugar Cookies: A family favorite! Use Halloween cookie cutters to cut the dough then frost and decorate. Perfect for classroom parties, school lunches and parties!
- Lofthouse Cookies. It’s easy to transform these homemade cookies into the ones your kids see at the store! Just tint your icing orange and decorate with Halloween sprinkles.
- Halloween Pumpkin Sugar Cookies: Soft orange sugar cookies, topped with a tuft green frosting and Brach’s candy pumpkin. Easy and adorable!
- Halloween Pinwheel Cookies. Choose fun Halloween colors like green and purple for these sugar cookies that rolled like pinwheels.
Halloween Cut-Out Cookies
I have yet to meet a kid who doesn’t like cut-outs for Halloween or any other holiday cookie recipe!
Pumpkin Cookies and Cookies with Candy
Both adults and kids love these cookies made with seasonal ingredients or Halloween candy. You can also use leftover Halloween candy to make this Halloween candy popcorn!
FAQs
Halloween cookie tools include seasonal Halloween cookie cutters, festive colored sprinkles, food dye in orange, green, purple, black and yellow plus seasonal Halloween candy.
Tools that come in handy when baking Halloween cookies include a stand mixer, measuring tools, frosting or piping bags and tips and spatulas. See each specific Halloween cookie recipe for more details.
This is easy to do! Keep it simple by adding seasonal sprinkles or make Halloween candy cookies with seasonal M&Ms or your favorite chopped candy bar.
Decorate cookies with candy corn, candy eyes or add fun frosting colors like yellow, orange or red to match the season. You can even dye some cookie dough.
It will depend on the Halloween cookie recipe but many can be made ahead of time, either 1-2 days in advance or you can freeze the cookie dough. Check the recipe card or storage area in each post for additional directions.
The Full List of Halloween Cookie Recipes
Can’t wait to get baking Halloween cookie recipes? Browse through the whole list!
These witch hat cookies are easy to assemble and adorable to make with kids for your next Halloween party! All you need is 4 simple ingredients.
Total Time: 10 minutes
Mummy cookies are a spooky Halloween treat that are super simple to make with Nutter Butter cookies, white chocolate and candy eyes.
Total Time: 20 minutes
These peanut butter spider cookies are the perfect Halloween cookie! Made with peanut butter cookies, a REESE’S peanut butter cup, candy eyes and a drizzle of chocolate.
Total Time: 19 minutes
Halloween sugar cookies are a fun take on my classic soft sugar cookies. A simple recipe with frosting instructions is Halloween fun for the whole family!
Total Time: 1 hour 28 minutes
These pumpkin cut-out cookies are a fall twist on a classic sugar cookie! Use pumpkin cookie cutters to cut the soft sugar cookies into shapes then decorate with icing.
Total Time: 1 hour 28 minutes
Satisfy your cookie cravings with these homemade Lofthouse cookies! Soft sugar cookies are topped with buttercream frosting and colorful sprinkles are perfect for any occasion.
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
These gooey butter cookies are made with boxed yellow cake mix, butter, sugar and cream cheese just like gooey butter cake! They are moist, chewy and irresistible.
Total Time: 1 hour
The best M&M Cookies that are soft and chewy with crispy edges and packed full of chocolate chips and M&Ms. A family favorite!
Total Time: 40 minutes
These chocolate M&M cookies have crisp edges, a soft chewy center and triple the chocolate! They are easy to make and loaded with colorful M&M’s.
Total Time: 30 minutes
These chocolate whoopie pies are a classic sandwich cookie made with two soft cocoa cake-like cookies filled with a cream cheese frosting. These are such a fun treat that everyone loves!
Total Time: 25 minutes
These are the best pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Soft and chewy with pumpkin spice flavor and chocolate chips, they are a favorite cozy fall cookie recipe.
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
These soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting are light, fluffy and will melt-in-your-mouth! With plenty of pumpkin pie spice, they are the perfect fall cookie.
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Milky Way Cookies – These cookies are AMAZING! They are super soft with loads of milky ways! The chocolate caramel combination is my absolute favorite.
Total Time: 20 minutes
Reese’s peanut butter cup cookies are made with a soft, thick peanut butter cookie base and topped with a peanut butter cup!
Total Time: 19 minutes
These Twix cookies are irresistible with a buttery shortbread base topped with smooth caramel and milk chocolate! They taste just like the candy bar but in a homemade cookie.
Total Time: 1 hour 41 minutes
Soft and fluffy chocolate rolo cookies filled with rich gooey caramel. Only 5 simple ingredients and so easy to make!
Total Time: 50 minutes
