10+ Easy Halloween Dessert Ideas for the Spookiest Party in October

This year, are you hosting a group of famished goblins and ghosts? You will thus require a few candies.

For your Halloween event, we've put together a list of easy Halloween dessert ideas that will help it seem as ghoulishly beautiful as it should. This has a ton of creative ideas for pumpkin delights, apple pie, and Halloween sweets.

Now go check them out!

Halloween dessert ideas easy

Halloween Dessert Ideas

Candied Apples

Even though you've probably only ever eaten candy apples at state fairs, orchards, and other similar events, they're a pleasure you can simply make at home.

For any fall or Halloween occasion, these lovely fall candies are simple to create with only a few ingredients, 30 minutes, and a candy thermometer.

Candied apples for Halloween

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

If you've been keeping your secret fascination with pumpkin-spiced foods, it's time to come out. 

This is one of the simple Halloween dessert ideas that use store-bought or homemade pumpkin purée together with quickly prepared sugar cookie dough scented with pumpkin spices to make a really seasonal fall treat.

Pumpkin sugar cookies

Vampire Poke Cake

This whimsically spooky take on the traditional American poke cake will delight the whole family. 

Soft almond cake coated with sour cherry sauce (sometimes known as "blood") and finished with fluffy, airy whipped cream creates this delicious and eerie dessert.

Vampire poke cake

Puffed Rice Paper Ghost Cake

This creepy-cute layer cake will look fantastic as a scary scenario on your Halloween table. Make your own eerie decorations by drawing some inspiration from the recent craze for rice paper wrappers. 

Simply cut the wrappers into spectral shapes instead of flowers. They come to life in a few seconds when cooked in hot oil.

Puffed rice paper ghost cake

Chocolate-Hazelnut Swirl Cake

This chocolate hazelnut swirl cake has a cobweb-like pattern that may put you into a daze. 

A spread of chocolate hazelnut spread and cocoa powder give the cake a rich, chocolaty flavor without being too sweet. The hazelnut and brown sugar streusel will freeze you to the bone with every bite.

Chocolate-hazelnut swirl cake

Ghost Brownies

A spooky backdrop is created by these ghostly white chocolate brownies with a Halloween theme. These really easy-to-assemble ghosts are made with melted white chocolate and dabs of store-bought black icing for the lips and eyes. 

The brownies are topped with a salty-sweet chocolate glaze that accentuates the ghosts in a way that's somewhere between fudgy and cakey.

Ghost brownies

Monster Bark

You ought to serve this crispy delight at your next monster mash! Your kids will love how the sugar eyeballs give it a spooky-fun appearance.

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Monster bark

Dirt Pudding

Dirt pudding is a classic kids' dish that anybody can make. This thick, creamy, layered dessert tastes amazing, even if the use of gummy worms as a decoration and crushed Oreos as a substitute for soil may sound absurd.

Dirt pudding

Spider Cookies

These adorable, eerie, and most importantly, tasty chocolate and peanut butter cookies are a perfect addition to any party. Plus, they're much easier to make than they look! Simply use little peanut butter cups to shape the body.

Spider cookies

Apple Cider Donuts

One of the best Halloween dessert ideas for adults is the apple cider donuts; handmade ones taste even better.

You may still use a drinking glass and a bottle cap to cut out the holes and the donuts if you don't have a donut cutter. No one is ever going to know!

Apple cider donuts

Pumpkin Trifle

Invite some buddies over to help you celebrate. Prepare this delicious dessert and share it with all of them. Layers of gingersnap cookies, creamy pumpkin filling, and spice cake are topped with candied ginger and whipped cream. 

The ghosts and goblins will all be impressed!

Pumpkin trifle

Boozy Screamsicle Shakes

Another fantastic dessert suggestion for a Halloween celebration! Everyone will be drawn outdoors to the yard by the deliciousness of these shakes. And if you're obsessed with anything creamsicles? You have to try this creamsicle cheesecake.

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Boozy screamsicle shakes

Mummy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Do not know what powdered black cocoa is? That's why Oreos seem so menacing. It's also used in conjunction with regular cocoa powder in this recipe to achieve a similar deep tint.

Mummy dark chocolate cupcakes

What Happens If You Can't Make Halloween Desserts in Time?

The Halloween desserts ideas described above are delicious and very simple to prepare. If you are pressed for time and unable to oversee the celebration yourself, you might want to think about buying some Halloween candy to save time and trouble.