17 Spooky & Cute Halloween Cookie Ideas
Dive into the spookiest season with the best Halloween cookies that are eye-catching and delicious and will be a hit at any ghoulish gathering!
Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect opportunity to turn the oven on and get creative. From spooky to cute and everything in between, these cookie ideas are perfect for bringing the Halloween spirit to life.
Whether you’re hosting a party, or bringing some festive treats to your kiddo’s classroom, you’re bound to find something on this list of Halloween cookie recipes!
1. Witch Hat Cookies
Part craft, part dessert, these Witch Hat Cookies are a super easy take on Halloween cookies.
They use storebought chocolate fudge stripe cookies as the base, a Hershey’s kiss for the point of the hat, and frosting and sprinkles to decorate.
Which means–that’s right!–you don’t even need to turn on the oven to make these!
2. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Monster Cookies
These playful Monster Cookies are soft and chewy and loaded with peanut butter & chocolate flavor.
Starting with a peanut butter and oat base, these cookies are decorated with M&Ms and candy eyeballs to make them look like (adorable) monsters.
3. Day Of The Dead Cookies
Inspired by the sugar skulls iconic to the Mexican holiday Dios de los Muertos (the day after Halloween), these Day Of The Dead Cookies are as beautiful as they are delicious.
Starting with a sugar cookie base (which can be made ahead of time!), these cookies are then decorated with vibrant royal icing to create the designs. The recipe includes a video showing you how to do the designs.
These cookies are perfect for a decorating party, and they are a great opportunity to introduce kids to the traditions of Dios de los Muertos.
4. Chocolate Dipped Oreos
These Chocolate Dipped Oreos are simply adorable. Using colorful chocolate candy melts, Oreos become bats, mummies, and monsters!
These are fun to make and are a great activity to do with kids. How cute would these be for a classroom Halloween party?!
5. Mummy Cookies
Who knew mummies could be so tasty? These Mummy Cookies are drizzled with icing to look like mummy bandages, but with their fun googly candy eyes, they won’t be giving anyone nightmares!
These store well and can even be frozen, so they are a great Halloween cookie idea if you want to get a jump start and make them ahead.
6. Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
These creepy, crawly, but oh-so-cute Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are fun for any Halloween party!
The made-from-scratch peanut butter cookies are the perfect base to decorate with a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup and melted chocolate to make the spider design.
7. Spiced Pumpkin Cookies
These Spiced Pumpkin Cookies might look basic, but they are anything but! Not only do these look like pumpkins, but the cookie actually has pumpkin in it for flavor.
Using pumpkin puree and warming spices like cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg, these Halloween cookies are the real deal.
8. Halloween Chocolate Covered Oreos
These Halloween Chocolate Covered Oreos feature a spooky (but easy!) spider web design. Use orange-stuffed Oreos to really capture that Halloween vibe.
What I love most about these is that they really don’t require any decorating skills to pull off the design!
9. Double Chocolate Monster Cookies
These Double Chocolate Monster Cookies are just spooky enough, using both regular and black cocoa powder to achieve their black color.
They are deeply chocolatey and the colorful candies and edible googly eyes make them extra fun!
These are perfect for Halloween bake sales or to tuck into your kiddo’s lunch box as a special treat.
10. Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bites
Can’t decide if you want to bake cookies or cake? You don’t have to when these Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake are on the menu!
Cookie dough batter is dolloped into the cheesecake base, so each bite has a little of both.
Oh, and if that weren’t enough–these are also loaded with little bite sized candies. This dessert embodies tricks and treats in the tastiest way possible!
11. Decorated Halloween Chocolate Covered Oreos
If decorating is your favorite part of cookie-making, these Halloween Chocolate Covered Oreos are for you! There is no baking required!
Using storebought Oreos, these cookies are dipped in chocolate and then decorated to look like all kinds of Halloween characters!
12. Chocolate Chip Monster Cookies
These Chocolate Chip Monster Cookies couldn’t be easier to make! All you need to do is mix black and orange Halloween sprinkles into the cookie dough, and top them with candy eyes at the end.
The result are perfect chocolate chip cookies with a subtle Halloween twist. These would be a great option for an office Halloween party or potluck!
13. Monster Truffle Cookies
Using crushed Oreos and cream cheese covered in melted chocolate, these Monster Truffle Cookies are a great no-bake Halloween treat to make.
And decorating them couldn’t be easier–just use some fun Halloween themed sprinkles and a big candy eyeball!
14. Halloween Sugar Cookies
This recipe for Halloween Sugar Cookies shows how to make four different cookie designs using just one batch of cookie dough.
Choose from Frankensein, pumpkins, witches hats, or–our favorite!–these cute spiders. Or, make all four designs for a really spectacular Halloween cookie tray.
15. Skull Linzer Cookies
These Skull Linzer Cookies are simple, and delicious. While many Halloween cookie recipes feature buckets of icing, these really let the cookie shine.
Two skull-shaped shortbread cookies sandwich raspberry jam to give them a pop of color, with no food dye needed.
16. Gingerbread Mummies
Gingerbread Mummies are SO easy to make and decorate!
Using a classic gingerbread cookie recipe and a gingerbread man cookie cutter, all you need to do is drizzle the white icing over them to look like mummy gauze. How simple is that?!
17. Goblin Skillet Cookie
This giant Goblin Skillet Cookie is perfect for sharing!
Chocolate chip cookie dough is loaded with M&Ms, chocolate chips, and candy eyeballs, and then baked in a cast iron skillet. Top it off with some vanilla ice cream for an extra special Halloween dessert.
Here’s to a Halloween filled with the sweetest of treats and the happiest of haunts. If you loved these Halloween cookie ideas, be sure to save it to Pinterest or share it with a friend!
