13 Scary Halloween Cookies to Sink Your Fangs Into

With melted chocolate chips or a little icing, you can turn Oreo cookies into vampire bats at Dracula-like speed. Just allow time for them to set in the freezer.

Glops of green frosting top these pistachio-flavored chocolate chip cookies for a treat that's *snot* too icky for kids. 

These cookies look eerily realistic. Home cook Laura M. shares how she decorated them for her son's class party: "We added green food coloring to the dough, and when I took them out of the oven I added a single chocolate chip for a wart. We also added red gel food coloring for the severed end of the finger."

Want to have a leg up on other chocolate chip cookies? Spoon melted chocolate chips into a piping bag with a small tip, then draw spider-sized legs around chocolate chips. 

If you hope to gross out your crew on Halloween, look no further than our Cat Poop Cookies. Go all out and place them in a new litter box with wheat and barley nugget cereal, like Grape-Nuts, complete with a new litter scoop for serving.

Use a tulip-shaped cookie cutter to create Halloween Ghost Cookies that look more friendly than frightening.  

Peanut butter sandwich cookies, melted white chocolate chips, and mini chocolate chips form a phantom that kids go nuts for. 

"While I know no one is ever actually scared by spooky Halloween treats, I do know for a fact that many people are terrified to work with meringue," Chef John says. Never fear. Reviewers find this recipe easy. 

More yum than yuck, these Poop Emoji Cookies will get a kid's attention like nothing else. Just take it from the reviews! These cookies have a drier consistency to keep their shape, but that makes them just right for dipping in milk. 

Cut in half, chocolate candy spheres (like Lindt Lindor Truffles) sit atop peanut butter cookies with frosting legs and candy eyes. Creepy-crawly but cute. 

You don't have to shape sugar cookies into anything special for shock factor. Using a fork to splatter a mixture of powdered sugar (1/2 cup), water (2 tablespoons), and red food coloring gel (just a few drops) will do the trick. 

Averaging five stars, these Chocolate Mice look and taste terrific. To create a tail, you can use licorice (per the recipe) or follow the lead of reviewers who melted caramel candies in the microwave for about five seconds each, cut them in half, then pulled them to stretch them into tails. Give them red eyes for a scarier appearance.

True to their name these, owl cookies are a hoot. And no better time to bake them than Halloween.