Halloween Cookie Recipes

These Halloween cookies are easy to make and hard to resist! We’ve got recipes for silly, spooky, and tasty fall treats.

Staff Picks

Pumpkin Brownies

Rating: 4.53 stars
326
Bake these two-tone or marbled brownies in a pan or in individual muffin cups.
By CroqueMadame

Spooky Witches' Fingers

Rating: 4.48 stars
697
Mold the dough into bony finger shapes topped with an almond "nail".
By Sandra

Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies with Spiders

Rating: 5 stars
2
Creepy-crawly chocolate chip cookies. A treat for all of your little monsters.
By Becky Held

Witches' Hats

Rating: 4.5 stars
41
A cute and simple little Halloween treat that everyone will love. The amount this recipe makes depends on how many cookies and chocolate kisses you have. It just depends on how many you want. The last time I made these, I ended up making about 140 or so.
By jazzchick

Sugar Cookie Icing

Rating: 4.5 stars
2812
This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
By JBS BOX

Halloween Ghost Cookies

Rating: 4.33 stars
1
All you need for these ghost cookies is a cookie cutter in the shape of a tulip and then turn it upside-down - if you don't have that one, you can easily freehand the ghost shapes. These are great giveaways for trick-or-treaters and a nice alternative to all the candy.
By barbara

Owl Cookies

Rating: 4.1 stars
7
A slice and bake cookie. Owl faces with cashew beaks. Great for Fall.
By Martha

Halloween Skeleton Cookies

Rating: 5 stars
1
I bake these creepy skeleton cookies every year for Halloween, but they work also for Day of the Dead. You can use any cut-out-cookie recipe as the base. I usually cut out 2 different-shaped figures using my gingerbread men cookie cutters.
By sterubawi05

Apple Crisp Cookies

Rating: 3.93 stars
15
Apple crisp cookies, moist, chewy and best served warm. They were my first invented recipe.
By veeparkes

Pumpkin Cookies III

Rating: 4.67 stars
93
This recipe was given to me by a very sweet friend of mine who is 86 years old. My children (6 of them) love this cookie. Frost with a powdered sugar and milk frosting when cool.
By Terry

The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

Rating: 4.44 stars
8765
Perfect for Halloween decorating!
By J. Saunders

Iced Pumpkin Cookies

Rating: 4.72 stars
3387
Wonderful spicy iced pumpkin cookies that both kids and adults love!
By Gina
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Inspiration and Ideas

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Royal Icing I

Royal Icing I
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Chocolate Cut-Out Cookies
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10 Fun Halloween Cookie Ideas

Pumpkin Pie Bars

Rating: 4.37 stars
103

These bars are very easy to make and taste like pumpkin pie with a streusel topping. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.

More Halloween Cookie Recipes

Meringue Bones

Rating: 4.5 stars
6
These tasty little treats are perfect for Halloween. Crispy and sweet with a little bit of spookiness.
By fishieking

Acorn Candy Cookies

Rating: 4.7 stars
78
Cute little treats all on their own or a fun decoration for your cupcakes! Enjoy as is or use to decorate cupcakes. If you are good at piping try adding some colored leaves made of frosting to the top of the Nilla® Wafer.
By What's for dinner, mom?

Peanut Blossoms II

Rating: 4.74 stars
496
I make these every year for our annual cookie open house. We make about 15 to 20 different kinds of cookies and have a 4 hour open house with friends. We then prepare cookie trays to take to shut ins and freeze the rest to enjoy all year long. My husband helps with this four day project! He's retired ... and I'm partially retired. It has been a long standing tradition that we enjoy every year!
By Rosemarie Magee

Royal Icing II

Rating: 4.67 stars
150
This recipe calls for meringue powder rather than egg whites.
By Kristen Pontier

Snickers® Brownies

Rating: 4.75 stars
3
Frost brownies with marshmallow creme and decorate with chocolate spiderwebs for an extra special touch.
By fabeveryday

The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

Rating: 4.44 stars
8540
Whenever you make these cookies for someone, be sure to bring along several copies of the recipe! You will be asked for it, I promise! NOTE: I make icing with confectioners' sugar and milk. I make it fairly thin, as I 'paint' the icing on the cookies with a pastry brush. Thin enough to spread easily but not so thin that it just makes your cookies wet and runs off.
By J. Saunders

Paul's Pumpkin Bars

Rating: 4.73 stars
1140
These are very moist, and so far I haven't found anyone who doesn't love them!
By Deb Martin

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies III

Rating: 4.56 stars
1368
If you like pumpkin pie and chocolate, you'll love these cookies. I think they taste best when they are cold from the refrigerator.
By Jennifer

Peanut Blossoms II

Rating: 4.74 stars
485
I make these every year for our annual cookie open house. We make about 15 to 20 different kinds of cookies and have a 4 hour open house with friends. We then prepare cookie trays to take to shut ins and freeze the rest to enjoy all year long. My husband helps with this four day project! He's retired ... and I'm partially retired. It has been a long standing tradition that we enjoy every year!
By Rosemarie Magee

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Rating: 4.69 stars
405
A delicious pumpkin cookie that can be eaten single or filled with whoopie pie filling to make it even better.
By V. Stogner

Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Rating: 4.65 stars
161
Excellent moist chocolate chip cookie with oatmeal and mini chocolate chips.
By Ken Sherer

Pumpkin Spice Cookie

Rating: 4.37 stars
308
I received this recipe from a good friend of mine. It is low in fat and tastes great.
By CARRUTH

Chocolate Mice

Rating: 4.66 stars
276
Kids will love these, they are whimsical and fun. Cute chocolate mice rolled in confectioners' sugar or chocolate cookie crumbs are very realistic.
By Rosina

Broiler S'mores

Rating: 4.96 stars
39
I'll admit making s'mores over a campfire is the best method, but, if your living with a statewide burn ban and don't have a fireplace, this is a fabulous alternative. On the up side, this method does produce perfectly uniform, golden marshmallows.
By MPADEN

Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting (The World's Best!)

Rating: 4.55 stars
105
After getting this recipe from a friend, I have made them over 100 times for family and friends and they are always a hit, especially around Halloween and Thanksgiving! As far as the spices go, less is more; this is not a full-on pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread/cake. They're light and moist cookies with a taste of fall in every bite!
By Sabattis

Cat Poop Cookies II

Rating: 3.12 stars
19
These showstoppers are great at parties. For added effect, mix in coconut (tapeworms) ramen noodles (roundworms), or peanuts. You can also coat the scoop with melted chocolate for a startling effect.
By Jackie Smith

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies I

Rating: 4.52 stars
192
You will be glad you tried this unique combination of nuts, chocolate, spices, and pumpkin.
By Beth

Pumpkin Protein Cookies

Rating: 3.88 stars
68
Great for breakfast, these cookies are like those in the stores. Not only are they delicious, but they are sugar free have extra protein in them to help keep you full longer.
By Yellowsunflower9

Poop Emoji Cookies

Rating: 3.57 stars
16
Since my daughter is obsessed with emojis and especially the poop emoji, for her birthday this year I made these poop emoji cookies as a treat to share for her class. Needless to say, they were a huge hit! They are based on a German cookie recipe and are different than American cookies - pretty dry and not very sweet as in Germany cookies are always eaten with tea or coffee. I'll be making them again as Halloween cookies.
By barbara

Perfect Cut-Out Cookie Dough

Rating: 4.28 stars
31
This recipe always comes out perfect. My toddlers and I make these often. I throw the dough together in the morning and let it sit in the fridge. I take it out at dinner time to let it warm just a bit, and we roll them out and ice them after for dessert. You use different flavors of extract and add spices. For fall, I use maple extract and add cinnamon and nutmeg. I use my mixer to prepare dough and it comes together super easy.
By Sarah Z

Cranberry-Pumpkin Cookies

Rating: 4.51 stars
341
Soft, cake-like cookies.
By Lucy Randall

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

Rating: 4.45 stars
253
Delicious cake type drop cookie. A family favorite and so easy to make.
By Diane

Pumpkin Cookies V

Rating: 4.58 stars
495
Soft, cake-like cookies with caramel icing.
By Peggy Ackerman

Extra Easy Pumpkin Cookies

Rating: 4.3 stars
49
These cookies are made from a cake mix, and very moist and full of flavor.
By chernobletink
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