30 Easy Halloween Desserts: No Tricks, All Treats
Easy Halloween desserts don't require complicated baking skills. You can dress up store bought cookies and cakes or rely on boxed cake mixes and brownies to make perfectly festive treats that will be the hit of your Halloween party.
I've been hosting Halloween parties for my kids for over 10 years and I can tell you one thing for certain: They are so impressed with the smallest bits of effort. Is it sweet? Then they will LOVE IT.
You do not need to make a jaw-dropping fancy dessert in order to be festive. All it takes is a little sprinkle strategy and a solid easy recipe that people actually enjoy eating.
I've pulled together a list of my favorite party desserts for fall that can be easily tweaked to be a cute Halloween dessert with just a few extra minutes. Just wait till you see how yummy these are.
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Halloween Dessert Presentation Ideas
You don't need to choose spooky-looking food to have a fun and festive Halloween dessert. You can take your favorite treats and simply dress them up with a little flair!
Stock up on a few of these easy Halloween party supplies and turn your goodie into something just a little ghoulish:
- Just Add Sprinkles: By far my favorite baking trick, just add a few Halloween sprinkles on top or use candy corn as garnish. Candy sprinkle eye balls can be used to make absolutely anything a little bit more spooky!
- Cupcake Picks: Buy an assortment of cute Halloween cupcake toppers. You can poke them into all sorts of dishes from sweet to savory to add a little holiday flair. These cocktail party picks with Halloween wooden toppers would be cute, too.
- Spooky Treat Tower: Grab this fun witch's hovel treat tower for serving cookies or cupcakes.
- Festive Platters: Serve your bite-sized candies and treats on a BOO shaped charcuterie board, a pumpkin-shaped board, or my personal favorite -- add a Halloween mini to a Nora Fleming platter.
- Festive Tableware: Serve your dish on a plain white or black dish and then bring along festive paper napkins and party plates. I think this adorable orange and pink Halloween table set is perfect.
- Place Card & A Funny Name: Order a pack of festive pumpkin place cards and then use a clever name for your dish that gives it a spooky feel.
Best Halloween Desserts
Now to the fun part! I think a cute Halloween dessert is the icing on the cake. There are so many delicious recipes to choose from and you're sure to find the perfect match no matter how much time you have for baking.
Most of these dessert recipes have a semi-homemade feel but there are some from-scratch treats if you love to bake, too.
I focused on chocolate, because Of Course!, and pumpkin, apple, and caramel. I think these are the perfect flavors for the season.
Halloween Cookie Bars
You can tint the vanilla frosting on these delicious Halloween cookie bars any color you like but I went with festive orange and black and white sprinkles.
Taffy Apple Pizza
Grab those leftover bags of Halloween candy and chop them up for topping this easy taffy apple pizza on a sugar cookie crust.
Caramel Apple Cookies
I used a bag of cookie mix to keep these caramel apple cookies super easy!
Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Bars
Boxed cake mix and a can of pumpkin magically bake up these delicious pumpkin gooey butter cake bars. Yummm.
Pumpkin Butterscotch Cookies
My kids have been baking these one-bowl pumpkin butterscotch cookies since they were tiny. There's never a single one left.
Caramel Pumpkin Spice Cheerios Bars
Want an easy no-bake treat? Stir together these easy caramel pumpkin spice Cheerios bars for a fun rice krispie upgrade.
Harry Potter Chocolate Frogs
With just a little prep work, you can easily make these Harry Potter chocolate frogs. I had a blast making them with my kids one afternoon and they are worth the little extra effort.
Easy Halloween Cupcakes
Turn a boxed cake mix into a stunning tower of treats with my easy halloween cupcakes designs!
Easy Halloween Donuts
Turn a store bought box of donuts into these easy Halloween donuts for a unique Halloween party dessert. If kids will be at the party, make it an interactive decorate-your-own activity!
Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
Skip the store bought packages and bake your own soft frosted sugar cookies. Just tint the frosting orange or keep it white and top with Halloween sprinkles. Better yet? Do half and half with the batch for a patterned treat tower.
Spider Web Brownies
Make a batch of vanilla glaze, extra thick, and pipe it in spider web patterns over the top of pre-cut homemade sourdough discard brownies. You could also use my kids' favorite brownie recipe if you don't have sourdough starter.
Caramel Apple Spread
No prep, no bake, utterly delicious caramel apple spread just needs a giant mound of fresh apple slices.
No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie
You can decorate my no-bake peanut butter pie with Halloween sprinkles to add extra flair to those peanut butter cups on top.
Chocolate Flourless Torte
A rich and fudgy chocolate flourless torte is so easy to decorate for Halloween! Use a Halloween cookie stencil and dust the top with powdered sugar. Carefully remove the stencil and reveal your spooky pattern.
OREO Blondies
Stir in some orange and white jimmies when you bake my easy Oreo blondies for a little pop of color.
Chocolate Eclair Cake
Be sure to sprinkle Halloween candy accents over the top of the chocolate eclair cake before the chocolate sets or they'll bounce right off! Otherwise, just use a Halloween cupcake pick to decorate the tray.
Apple Snickerdoodle Dump Cake
Bring along some vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce to make apple snickerdoodle dump cake sundaes!
Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips
I think the black and orange chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips are perfect just on their own but you could swap the peanut butter chips for orange M&M candies if you prefer.
Creamy Peanut Butter Apple Dip
Need another option for a fresh fruit dessert? Serve a bowl of my creamy peanut butter apple dip with both fresh apples and salty pretzels.
Grasshopper Poke Cake
Normally grasshopper poke cake goes hand in hand with Christmas for me, but that spooky green frosting is perfect, especially if you're hosting a Wicked themed party this year.
Air Fryer Apple Turnovers
Like your desserts warm? You could serve my hot air fryer apple turnovers with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for an extra-special touch.
Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
These pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls have a browned butter glaze, they taste like fall in baking dish!
No-Bake Caramel Apple Cheesecake
Let your guests build their own dessert and offer a cheesecake toppings bar! My no-bake caramel apple cheesecake is easy to serve deconstructed.
Easy Butterscotch Brownies
Press in some orange M&Ms or some Reese's Pieces candies before baking these easy butterscotch brownies and they'll be party ready straight from the oven.
Snicker Salad
While normally a Thanksgiving side dish in our house, this fun Snicker salad makes an excellent no-bake dessert when you need a smaller treat.
Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
I love the fun orange color of these creamy peanut butter sandwich cookies. You could roll the edges in sprinkles for a festive touch.
Hello Dolly Bars
Toasted coconut and chocolate chips make these hello dolly bars almost like my favorite Halloween candy -- Almond Joys.
Easy Pumpkin Bread
Dress up loaves of this easy pumpkin bread with homemade maple glaze and you'll have a way to get some sprinkles to stick. Then it looks more like a cake than a quick bread!
Black and White Cookies
You can tint the white half of these black and white cookies with orange food gel or leave them white and sprinkle some Halloween sprinkles on just half of the cookie before the icing sets.
Fresh Apple Cake
I personally love to top my fresh apple cake with browned butter frosting but it pairs well with cream cheese frosting, too. Add chopped nuts or festive sprinkles for garnish.
Apple Crisp Bars
My juicy apple crisp bars are a perfect bite-sized treat but you can turn them into a decadent dessert by keeping vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce on hand for sundaes.
Apple Crumble Bars
It's the season for all the apple desserts. Mix things up with my apple crumble bars -- with or without that salted caramel sauce over the top.
Easy Pumpkin Pie
Why do I never think to make my easy pumpkin pie outside of Thanksgiving?? It is such an obvious choice for a Halloween party. Grab a canister of spiced whip cream for even more flair.
Treacle Tart
Channel your inner Harry Potter and try this easy treacle tart. It's one of my husband's favorite desserts!
More Halloween Recipes
Looking for more fun Halloween ideas for families? Here are a few more of my favorite not-so-spooky recipes:
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