Easy Cookie Recipes for a festive Halloween season
Easy Cookie Recipes for a festive Halloween season
I adore the Halloween season and Fall is here and that means Halloween party and Halloween treats galore! Whether you are looking forward to the spooky season or just want to enjoy all these pumpkins all fall long, you cannot go wrong. My boys love helping out in the kitchen and making Halloween cookie recipes is such a fun treat and one of my favorite ways to spend quality time together and create some delicious Halloween treats with my little monsters! Whip up some of these Halloween treats and snuggle up for a Halloween movie with your family or friends. If you love the fall October weather on the East Coast as much as I do, host a outdoor movie night with neighbors and turn on a Halloween show and have cookies ready to serve! You cannot go wrong with chewy cookies and people you love!
All this talk of Halloween cookies and baking has me hungry, I think I may get back into the kitchen to make some more Halloween dessert options!
Skip the store-bought cookies this year and make your own! Get messy in the kitchen and make memories with your family while making the best Halloween cookies! If you are heading to the grocery store to make some Halloween spooky treat options, here are some dry ingredients / wet ingredients to grab while shopping:
Large Eggs
Chocolate Chips
Brown Sugar
Parchment Paper
Candy Eyes
Halloween Cookie Cutters, optional
Halloween sprinkles
Black cocoa powder
Cream cheese frosting
Pumpkin pie spice
Graham Crackers
Black Icing
green m&m
Milano cookies
Pumpkin Puree
Have your cookie sheets, large bowl, piping tip, stand mixer, or electric mixer on hand to whip up any or all of these Halloween cookie recipes!
Festive Halloween cookies Halloween Recipes
Can you believe that you can make these in the air fryer? The warm spices of Fall come together in one quick and easy treat. The air fryer gives these cookies a unique texture, perfectly puffed up and golden brown on the outside, while maintaining a soft and moist interior. These are perfect for someone looking for easy recipes with an autumnal spin.
2. Witches Cauldron Halloween Cookies
This Witches Cauldron Semi-Homemade Halloween Treat is going to be a hit with everyone at your Halloween party! These are also going to get a 5 star rating for these not so spooky cookies. I love this recipe because its not completely homemade and uses ding dong cakes as the base to save time.
3. Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
Who doesn't love the popular flavor pairing: peanut butter and chocolate! Using this amazing peanut butter cup and a few simple ingredients take your basic peanut butter cookie to the next level!The cookies are so simple to prepare and are perfect for any occasion! Whether you just want to have a treat during spooky season counting down to Halloween, want to bring a big smile on your kids face or need a spooky yet adorable snack for your next Halloween party.
4. Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
These Gluten-Free halloween cookies are packed with pumpkin flavor, lightly spiced with cinnamon, and loaded with chocolate chips. They are extremely easy to make and require simple ingredients you might already have in hand. Slightly chewy in the middle with crispy edges, these pumpkin-flavored chocolate chip cookies are the perfect snack for everyone.
5. Witch Hat Cookies
Take the ordinary Oreo cookies and make them witches hat cookies for a happy Halloween treat. You can make these witch hat Halloween cookies so easily and do not even need an oven for bake time, just a microwave they are so simple!
6. Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies
The classic crispy peanut-shaped cookies are drenched in vanilla-flavored candy coating for a sweet combination no one can resist. Kids of all ages will gobble up these festive ghoulish cookies.
They are creamy, crunchy, & nutty. Add two mini chocolate chips for the eyes. Then add a regular-sized chocolate chip to give each ghost a mouth. The crispy peanut butter cookie inside is crunchy when you bite into them. Then you get a taste of the sweet vanilla coating that is creamy to balance the crumbly texture. I dare you to resist! Don't be scared of these delicious Halloween snacks.
7. Black Cocoa Cookies
This recipe for heart cookies with black cocoa results in 14 soft and fluffy cookies. The spider web icing gives them the slightest hint of mint, pairing well with the rich chocolate cookie flavor. These Halloween themed cookies are organic and naturally colored. The best part is they are even lower in sugar than the average vegan cookies.
8. Candy Corn Cookies
These triple chocolate cookies with candy corn are made with a boxed cake mix, which means they are super easy to whip up. Plus they are loaded with peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and lots and lots of candy corn.
9. Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
The texture of these gorgeous, oaty, homemade peanut butter cookies is delightfully soft and satisfying, with smooth and creamy chocolate chips and a great peanut flavor. You'll be pleased to know that can whip these Halloween peanut butter spider cookies up in under 30 minutes from start to finish.
10. Halloween Pumpkin Cookies
These Halloween pumpkin cookies are perfect for serving as a treat this spooky season. They're simple sugar cookies, iced with rolled fondant and decorated with an icing pen.These Halloween pumpkin cookies are such a fun and easy treat to make and they're sure to be a hit with family and friends!
11. Monster Eye Cookies
These Monster Eye Cookies are just what you are looking for! These terrific tasting Halloween themed crinkle cookies are easy to make and are perfect for Halloween parties, Monster parties, or an after-school snack! These not-so-spooky monster cookies are fun, festive, and super cute.
12. Mummy Cookies Recipe
Mummy Cookies Recipe is the cutest Halloween cookie I have ever seen! These adorable Mummy Cookies are a spooktacular Halloween treat! Great for Halloween parties, lunch boxes, dessert or an afternoon treat, your entire family will enjoy these tasty cookies.
13. Halloween Confetti Cookies
What is it about kids and sprinkles? It seems there is never enough sprinkles to go around until of course, we made these tasty Halloween cookies fully loaded with colorful sprinkles. No matter the occasion, kids seem to love sugar cookies and are thrilled with the sweet treat. Although you can easily change out the Halloween sprinkles for different ones during another holiday and party, these are a real hit at this time of year.
14. Vegan Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Vegan Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfectly soft, chewy, subtly sweet, and spiced! Gluten-free and allergy-free, these healthy dairy-free white chocolate pumpkin cookies are just 10 simple ingredients, baked in 15 minutes, and are an easy, delicious, seasonal treat everyone will enjoy!
15. Cookie Monster Cookies
These blue cookie monster Halloween cookies from Cookie Dough Diaries are loaded with chocolate chips, cookie pieces, and stuffed with an Oreo in the center! They’re fun to make for both adults and kids alike!
16. Halloween Candy Cookies
These Halloween Candy Cookies are a perfect way to use up all that leftover Halloween candy like festive green m&m and more! These cookies are easy to make, easy to customize with your favorite candy, and they're ready in 25 minutes! Each bite is loaded with gooey Halloween candy!
17. Easy Halloween Pinwheel Cookies
If you need some non-candy treats for the Halloween season, these slice and bake sugar cookies are it. A Halloween party is the perfect setting for serving up these soft and addictive Halloween-themed cookies. Spiral cookies like this are so much fun to bake! They’re buttery, rich, sweet, and delicious!
18. Easy to Decorate Jack Skellington Sugar Cookie
Sweet and delicious Halloween Sugar Cookies are easy to make and even easier to eat! Everyone will devour these tasty cutouts decorated with simple black and white spooky designs. Halloween cookie decorations are some of the easiest since you can make all sorts of spooky designs using just black and white frosting
19. Dracula Denture Cookies
The most perfect fun Halloween cookies couldn’t get any easier! These mouthy Dracula cookies will make all the kids laugh when you tell them that these are the monster’s dentures, complete with marshmallow teeth and pointy fangs made from slivered almonds.
20. Easy Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies
Aren’t these Halloween Chocolate Cookies cute? They’re such a fun and simple way to jazz up your normal chocolate chip cookies for spooky season.
Last but certainly not least these Halloween cookies are super easy to make. Seriously, the prep time is less than 10 minutes, making them a fun and easy way to celebrate Halloween.
Hosting a Halloween cookie swap is also a really fun way to bake cookies and host Halloween parties and have some Halloween fun this time of year! Everyone brings a different tasty treat and goes home with other special treats from friends! We love doing this at Christmas, but swapping these delicious cookies is a great way to add some extra fun Halloween style!
As you are taste testing and putting together delicious Halloween themed popcorn mixtures, you will want some delicious pumpkin beverages all fall season long. Be sure to print out and save this 31 bucket list ideas for Halloween activities. If you decide Halloween themed popcorn isnt enough to satifsy your sweet tooth this fall season, these Halloween Mummy inspired cakesicles are the perfect addition. This list has amazing ideas for families and educators, like Halloween Color by Number printables, Halloween crafts and Halloween I Spy games. Halloween Bingo is such a hit at our house and Halloween Scavenger Hunts are so much fun.
Halloween themed reading is such a fun way to expand on the fall season with children of all ages like Halloween board books, Halloween picture books, and for independent readers Halloween chapter books.
