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25 Scary-Delicious Halloween Treats

Kristin Appenbrink
Kristin Appenbrink
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re a kid or a kid at heart: We all deserve something sweet and festive to celebrate Halloween. It’s always a fun time of year to get in the kitchen and play with your food to whip up something special.

Go ahead and get the kids involved, too! There are tons of ways they can help, from stirring the cookie dough to dunking the Frankenstein fingers to mixing the Monster Munch to decorating the Halloween chocolate bark.

These 25 spooky Halloween treats don’t skimp on the fun-factor. From Halloween snack mix to candy bar treats, this list of sweet and savory recipes will make sure there’s something for everyone.

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Joe Lingeman
Monster Munch

Every Halloween get-together, costume party, and pre-trick-or-treat dinner needs party mix. This Monster Munch gets its name from the witches’ fingers (bugles), broken brooms (pretzel sticks), and edible eye balls — and it is equally loved by kids and adult alike.

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Kelli Foster
Ghost Cookies

Made with buttery, vanilla-scented sugar cookie dough and finished with smooth royal icing, these spooky sweet treats look like they came from the bakery, but are easy to pull off at home.

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Joe Lingeman
Graveyard Chocolate Dirt Pudding Cake

Here's how you can make your own party-sized graveyard cake this Halloween with chocolate pudding and Milano cookies.

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Joe Lingeman
Halloween Chocolate Boo Bark

Chocolate bark transcends all holidays but it is at its most ghoulish for Halloween. Here's how one ingredient can make better bark for Halloween!

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Tessa Huff
Candy-Topped Chocolate Cupcakes

Sometimes you have to go with the classic, and what could be more classic than chocolate cupcakes? Adapted from our chocolate cake recipe, top the frosting with chopped-up candy bars or other candy pieces to give them some Halloween flair.

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Shilpa Uskokovic
Best-Ever Dirt Pudding

Using instant pudding not only makes this dish super easy, but it’s also essential to the success of its no-bake nature. While many recipes call for frozen whipped topping, we highly suggest you make your own whipped cream. It’s not at all difficult and it’s a million times tastier!

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Joe Lingeman
Roll-Out Chocolate Cookies

This super-dark chocolate cookie recipe is perfect for all your Halloween baking needs. It’s great as a foil for cookies decorated with sweet icing, frostings, sprinkles, and sugars galore or terrific as a crunchy ice cream sandwich base. It’s also sturdy enough to build a gingerbread-style haunted house.

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Joe Lingeman
Witches’ Broomsticks Halloween Pretzel Treats

Witches' Brooms are an adorable treat to make with your kids and bring to your next Halloween party. Melt a cup full of chocolate in the microwave or with this method, and then use the still-warm chocolate to coat the end of the pretzel and gently melt the peanut butter cups while the pressing the pretzel in gently.

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Angela Chung
Pumpkin Patch Brownies

These chewy chocolate brownies are topped with toasted coconut "hay" and candy pumpkins for a fun and festive fall treat.

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Diana Yen
Halloween Haunted Cookie House

Practice your cookie house building with our easy cut-out cookie dough and make a spooky centerpiece for Halloween.

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Joe Lingeman
Frankenstein Fingers Halloween Pretzels

Pretzel rods meet white chocolate crunch in a delightful monster mash-up of sweet and salty flavors.

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Joe Lingeman
Witches Hat Halloween Cookies

Don't discount the magic of melting white chocolate to make a last-minute treat out of cookies and chocolate candy.

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Joe Lingeman
Mummy Hot Dogs

This beloved Halloween treat requires just two ingredients (three if you count the eyes!). Don't underestimate the power of mummy dogs to delight kids and adults alike! They can be served as a party appetizer or even as a quick dinner before trick-or-treating.

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Kelli Foster
Halloween Party Mix

Go big or go home. That's the motto of this Halloween party mix that's filled with pretzels, popcorn, candy corn, Reese's Pieces, peanut butter cups, muddy buddies, and M&Ms. What more could you ask for?

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<a href="https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/authors/joe">Joe Lingeman</a>
Cheese Ghost Mini Pizzas

Cheese pizza ghosts are the only kind of ghost you’ll want haunting your kitchen this Halloween. A quick combination of English muffins, pizza sauce, and sliced mozzarella cheese come together for a festive snack or dinner.

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Joe Lingeman
Halloween Popcorn Mummy Hands

We’re putting a little modern twist on these, calling for cheesy puffed corn, not only because it’s easier for the littlest kids, but it also lasts a little longer than fresh-popped popcorn in the gloves. But we kept the candy corn nails — the essential finishing touch for this classic treat.

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Joe Lingeman
Dracula Teeth Apple Halloween Snack

Apple slices and mini marshmallows are held together with peanut butter to make a vampire-inspired grin that walks the line of treat and snack.

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Eric Kleinberg; Food Stylist: Kristina Vanni
Monster Cookies

Can’t decide between an oatmeal, peanut butter, or chocolate chip cookie? Monster cookies are the answer. These homey, soft-baked cookies are chewy from oats, packed with peanut butter, and not shy about the chocolate chip and M&M mix-ins, making them a great Halloween treat.

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Anjali Prasertong
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Graveyard Dirt Cake

It's got two layers of homemade pudding, one lightly salted peanut butter, the other dark chocolate, that together taste like the grown up version of a Reese’s peanut butter cup, sandwiched between two layers of crumbled Oreo cookies.

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Kelli Foster
Halloween Pumpkin Cookies

These pumpkin sandwich cookies hit all the delicious marks — they’re made with both real pumpkin and pumpkin spice, they’re perfectly soft, and they sandwich quite nicely with chocolate frosting.

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Stephanie Loo
Halloween Deviled Eggs

The “trick” to the best Halloween deviled eggs is that they all use the same filling recipe, so you can save your energy for decorating.

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Emma Christensen
Candy-Coated Marshmallow Spiders

If you want to get really fancy with these marshmallow spiders, you can use homemade marshmallows. But if you're in a time crunch, store-bought will definitely work. You can also coat them with small candies like Nerds.

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Emma Christensen
Homemade Candy Corn

This year, forget the bagged stuff and try your hand at making it from scratch.

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Apartment Therapy
Two-Bite Nutella Chocolate Cookies

With a crisp, crackly top and a super-gooey center, these Nutella cookies are everything you could want. You can skip the icing if you like, but the Halloween colors make for a festive treat.

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