Holiday Planning & Ideas Halloween Halloween Recipes Halloween Treats & Desserts Truly Frightening Yet Totally Delicious Halloween Cookie Recipes By Martha Stewart Editors Martha Stewart Editors An article attributed to "Martha Stewart Editors" indicates when several writers and editors have contributed to an article over the years. These collaborations allow us to provide you with the most accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive information available.The Martha Stewart team aims to teach and inspire readers daily with tested-until-perfected recipes, creative DIY projects, and elevated home and entertaining ideas. They are experts in their fields who research, create, and test the best ways to help readers design the life they want. The joy is in the doing. Editorial Guidelines Updated on July 1, 2021 Trending Videos These Halloween bites are sweet and a little spooky, too. Make a batch or two and be prepared to wow the crowd at any Halloween party or bake sale. 01 of 25 Boo! It's the most spook-tacular day of the year: Halloween is here and there will be sweets and treats galore. While October 31st is filled with sugary treats in the form of candy, bake some Halloween cookies ahead of time to get in the spirit, share with friends, or to send the kids to school with. Whatever your plan, there are plenty of ways to take a bite and celebrate. What could be better than using October's prime time vegetable to flavor cookies, whoopie pies, and more—we're talking about pumpkin, of course. Pure pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice pop up in recipes like pumpkin-shaped molasses spice cookies and pumpkin cookies with brown butter icing. Have a favorite Halloween sugar cookie recipe that you want to shape and decorate for the holiday? Use wicked cookie cutters in the shapes of ghosts, bats, pumpkins, and gravestones, then decorate them with orange, black, and white sprinkles or frosting. We've transformed ordinary chocolate cookies into mischievous jack-o'-lanterns, giant marshmallows into skulls, and brownies into decorated coffins. If you pipe classic meringue the right way, it can resemble bones or ghosts when baked. Or make our the bat and cobweb cookies seen here for a totally webby dessert. Use leftover Halloween candy as the ultimate cookie decorations; chop it up and fold it into chocolate chip cookie dough, boo-tiful blondies, or bloody good brownies for a monstrously sweet treat. Even peanut butter hard candies look festive when pressed gently into dessert bars—it's a simple, eerie way to have fun with Halloween recipes. Have a fang-tastic holiday with these ghostly Halloween cookie recipes. But beware: They're all devilishly delicious. 02 of 25 Spider Cookies The Morrisons A spin on the classic black-and-white cookie, these cookies, decorated with a spider made of raspberry gummies and black licorice legs, will tangle you in a web of deliciousness. View Recipe 03 of 25 Spiderweb Florentines Raymond Hom Florentines may look as lacy and delicate as a spider's web, but they're actually simple to prepare. The heat of the oven does most of the work, transforming mounds of the dough into thin, crisp, nutty cookies. Just add a fanciful drizzle of chocolate, and they'll disappear before you can say, "Boo!" View Recipe 04 of 25 Halloween Brownies Bryan Gardner Cream-filled chocolate cookies become full-blown monsters when broken in half and decorated with royal icing and red nonpareils. Use them to trick out any batch of brownies. View Recipe 05 of 25 Jack-o'-Lantern Faces Aaron Dyer These mischievous jack-o'-lanterns will light up a party. For the stained-glass effect, cut faces out of rolled-out chocolate cookie dough, bake until just set, remove from the oven, and fill the holes with ground-up butterscotch candies. Bake until the candies are melted. View Recipe 06 of 25 Shortbread Candy Bars Use up leftover chocolate candies and candy bars from the kids' Halloween haul to create these crumbly shortbread bars. View Recipe 07 of 25 Midnight Moon Cookies Inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe story in which a demonic cat is "graven in bas-relief upon the white surface" of a wall, these cakey black-and-white cookies feature the chocolate silhouette of a fur-raised feline set against a full moon of glossy icing. View Recipe 08 of 25 Pumpkin-Shaped Molasses Spice Cookies Rum, molasses, and warming spices permeate every bite of these irresistible treats. 09 of 25 Chewy Caramel Mystery Cookies Put your favorite Halloween candies to good use by folding them into these gooey cookies. The only thing that's missing a glass of cold milk! View Recipe 10 of 25 Fossil Cookies SIMON WATSON These nutty sugar cookies with creepy-crawly indentations are just the thing for a Halloween party. Take a bite…if you dare. View Recipe 11 of 25 Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies Victor Schrager Crisp chocolate cookies sandwich a caramel center in these devilishly delicious treats. View Recipe 12 of 25 Candy-Corn Sugar Cookies A familiar seasonal candy infuses these cookies with the spirit of Halloween. Whether or not you like candy corn, it wouldn't be Halloween without eating it. View Recipe 13 of 25 Skull Madeleines Hector Sanchez These creepy marshmallow skulls top madeleines shrouded in bittersweet chocolate. View Recipe 14 of 25 Pumpkin-Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches John Lawton Make pumpkin ice cream and gingerbread cookies from scratch for an extra-special Halloween dessert. View Recipe 15 of 25 Chocolate Shortbread Simple colored icing gives this easy shortbread seasonal flair. There's nothing spooky about these cookies—they're just plain sweet. View Recipe 16 of 25 Lollipop Cookies José Manuel Picayo Rivera Bring out the sweet side of Halloween with these colorful sugar cookies, a real treat for your favorite little tricksters. Wrap them up in a cute gift bag to hand out to neighbors or friends instead of candy for a spooky surprise. View Recipe 17 of 25 Jack-o'-Lantern Spice Cookies Sandwich adorable jack-o'-lantern cookies with store-bought dulce de leche for a kid-approved Halloween treat. Go all out with the theme by adding orange food coloring to the dough and green sprinkles at the top for a makeshift stem. View Recipe 18 of 25 Chocolate-Spot Cookies David Prince How do you take chocolate cookies from good to great? Dot them with chocolate candies, of course! Orange and black ones make them perfectly Halloween-appropriate. View Recipe 19 of 25 Halloween Whoopie Pies Kids and adults alike will devour this classic dessert. Orange nonpareils are a bright addition to rich, dark whoopie pies. View Recipe 20 of 25 Flame Tuiles Kate Sears Cross over to the dark side with these crispy crimson cookies. They're the perfect garnish for our decadent Devil's Food Cake. 21 of 25 Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing These pillowy spice cookies transform pumpkin-pie flavors into portable treats. Brown butter is key to adding a rich, nuttiness to a classic icing. View Recipe 22 of 25 Brownie Coffins Johnny Miller These boo-tiful brownie coffins are topped with marzipan for a decorative touch. The shape adds a serious scare factor to your Halloween party. View Recipe 23 of 25 Meringue Bone Cookies Sang An Crisp meringue cookies in bone-chilling shapes are just the thing for a Halloween treat. Though they look next level, these meringues are easy to make—and are sure to surprise your friends. View Recipe 24 of 25 Pumpkin-Swirl Brownies David Prince Chocolate and pumpkin are a frightfully gooey pair in these creamy pumpkin-swirl brownies. While we garnish these with nuts for texture and crunch, feel free to leave them off for a school-safe snack. View Recipe 25 of 25 Day of the Dead Cookies Aaron Dyer Hand a bowl of candy decorations and frosting to kids so they can help with these colorful decorated skull cookies. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit