Halloween Sweets That Are Almost Too Cute to Eat (2024)

Whether for breakfast, after-school snack, or dessert, these sweet treats will hit the spot.

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Spook the fam with these easy, fun treats. Plastic spiders not included.

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Creeeeak... open up these spooky looking cookie sandwiches, and there's an eerily good surprise inside.

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If you're in the market for a creative baking challenge, we've got you covered—and this one's two stories high. Build this eerie house with not one, but two cakes, then decorate it to your heart's content.

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They may be ghostly, but they're downright adorable too. These brownies might even elicit a few "awws" from your party guests!

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Here's an elegant, simple treat that you can make for the grownups to enjoy while the kids are munching on other stuff.

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A cheesecake topping gives these marbled brownies the sweetest finish.

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At your next Halloween party, use these thin, crispy cookies as place cards. Tips for success: Make extra cookies in case of breakage and cool them completely before writing names with icing. Find decorating icing in the baking section of grocery stores.

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Devil's food cupcakes on Halloween just make sense. But these have a trick: there's a hidden treat inside!

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These little tarts are more than just eye candy. They also happen to be delicious, flaky, and filled with peanut butter. Yum!

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Bet your guests won't be able to get enough of these sweet treats! "Spooky" chocolate trees meet crushed sandwich cookies and candy pumpkins in this fun Halloween dessert.

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Ask guests to follow the clues at your murder-mystery Halloween party and lead them to this chocolate cake.

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Cameo cookies make for a spooky-sweet party favor. Use a silhouette-shaped cookie cutter to cut the cameo outline from slice-and-bake sugar cookie dough; bake as directed. Once cool, apply white royal icing to the portrait and "frame," then coat with sparkling black sanding sugar, shaking off any excess.

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No mystery here—these sugar cookies with candy centers are guaranteed to be the hit of your Halloween bash.

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The secret to this cake's perfect form? A fluted, dome-shaped pan. The pumpkin shape is actually two dome cakes fitted together.

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The key to this mini-cemetery is the array of tombstones fashioned from Pepperidge Farm's Milano and Bordeaux cookies.

Step 1: Bake chocolate cake of your choosing and frost with your favorite chocolate frosting.

Step 2: Pipe "X" and "RIP" in chocolate icing on cookies. Push into cake and crumble chocolate wafers to make "dirt."

Step 3: Surround edges of the cake with chocolate wafers.

Step 4: Insert plastic skeletons into the "dirt."

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If the look of these witch cupcakes aren't enough to make you squeal with joy, the ingredients will: They're topped off with a seriously unique hazelnut frosting. Seconds, please!

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Admit it: One look at these chocolate and peanut butter acorns, and you're smitten. (It's okay, we are too.)

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Boo! Knock guests' socks off with meringue-topped chocolate ganache tartlet—the perfect sweet and spooky Halloween dessert.

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Try out this cute update to a classic shortbread cookie with almonds and a zest of lemon.

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