60 Scary-Cute Desserts Sure To Thrill Everyone At Your Halloween Party

While you’ve likely had them at orchards, state fairs, and the like, candy apples are a treat you can easily make at home. You only need a handful of ingredients, 30 minutes, and a candy thermometer to make these festive fall treats for every fall party or Halloween bash.

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Whether you’re throwing a Halloween bash and need a show-stopping centerpiece dessert, or just really love the Peanuts gang and want your pumpkin patch to be the most sincere, this is the cake for you—it’s the Great Pumpkin, er, Bundt-kin, Charlie Brown!

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Hocus Pocus is a must-watch every year, and these adorable Binx cookies are in honor of the classic movie character. Black cocoa powder turns these chewy chocolate cookies a dark rich color, perfect for our favorite talking cat.

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This playfully spooky take on the traditional American poke cake is a delight for the whole family. In it, a soft almond cake is infused with a tart cherry sauce (“blood”!) and topped off with a light, fluffy whipped cream for a dessert that’s equally tasty and scary.

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Spooky season is here, and we’re celebrating in style with these scary delicious witch finger cookies. Don't be scared—they're just a shortbread cookie shaped into a severed finger and adorned with an almond nail and a bit of blood-red jam. Easy!

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Buckeyes are a beloved truffle made of a rich peanut butter filling and dipped in chocolate—think Reese's, but streamlined. These no-bake cheesecake bars might be even easier. They're lighter and creamier than the truffle, but still full of all of the peanut butter and chocolate elements you love.

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What's this?! Well, it's one very scary good treat. There's no better way to celebrate All Hallows Eve than with the Pumpkin King himself—and a bunch of chocolate-covered Oreos.

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Pumpkin patch brownies turn a regular boxed brownie into the cutest fall dessert. Top with crushed Oreos for dirt and nestle candied pumpkins to look like they are growing from the ground! So simple yet so sweet!

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These easy Twix cookies are the simplest way to make a copycat of our favorite candy bar. Crunchy shortbread is topped with caramel and milk chocolate and mimics a Twix perfectly. If you like salty sweet, a little flaky sea salt on the chocolate before it sets is divine too.

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This white chocolate bark is probably the most simple from-scratch Halloween treat you can make. The best part? You could even add leftover Halloween candy to top this off!

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Dirt pudding is a classic kids' recipe that everyone should know how to make. Using crushed Oreos to mimic dirt and garnishing with gummy worms might sound kind of silly, but the truth is this: This creamy and indulgent layered dessert tastes ridiculously good!

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Don’t just make plain old cupcakes for your next Halloween bash, make zombie brain cupcakes! They’re nothing more than a moist, chocolate cupcake with rich vanilla frosting, but some neon green food coloring and clever piping turn these into a super-festive, spooky treat.

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Let’s face it: Pumpkin anything is a crowd pleaser in its own right. When combined with two of the most popular desserts in the history of dessert creation, it turns into a must-make for every fall occasion.

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Pumpkin sugar cookies get sandwiched together with a cream cheese frosting for the perfect Halloween party treat. Carve a Jack-O'-Lantern into them, or decorate them with royal icing—anything goes.

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In our minds, fall isn't fall 'til we've had at least a dozen apple cider cake donuts. This super-sized version comes together in no time, and there's no deep-frying involved. That's a win in our book.

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These are the spookiest treat to make with your kids at home or in the classroom for the annual Halloween party. We used store-bought ingredients just to make things a little easier for you, but feel free to go homemade too—our chocolate chip cookie recipe is killer.

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This simple cake is so cute—ghost meringues make for the sweetest topping. We opted for a chocolate cake, but a red velvet cake would really amp up the Halloween vibes. Not feeling the meringue? Go ahead and top it with some ghost cookies instead.

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This cake is delicious proof that nothing is going to come between us and chocolate cake. Not even spiders.

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With the signature swirl and rich cream cheese filling, the pumpkin roll has a lifetime spot on our must-have fall desserts list—especially when we're looking to impress.

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These M&M cookie bars have all the comfort of a chocolate chip cookie, with the added crunch of M&M's and the added heft of a bar shape, making for a delicious treat that’s impossible to put down.
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