21 Boo-tiful Halloween Cookies
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Is your tot a cookie monster? Halloween is right around the corner, and mamas are getting ready for the spookiest — and sweetest! — night of the year. Giving out store-bought candy to little trick-or-treaters is common practice, but why not dazzle them with an extra something special in their goodie bags this year? Check out these 21 boo-tiful and delicious Halloween cookies and get inspired to bake (or buy) for this festive occasion. They also make delectable party favors if you're hosting a monster bash!
— Additional reporting by Murphy Moroney
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Trick-or-Treat Cookies
Playful trick-or-treat cookies are twice the fun. Outside, they look like simple Halloween cookies shaped like pumpkins, coffins, gravestones, and ghosts, but inside, they're stuffed with treats (mini chocolate candies) or tricks (small sugar ants).
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Halloween Mini Cookies
These vanilla shortbread Halloween Mini Cookies ($25) take spooky to a new level thanks to cute pumpkin, witch hat, ghost, and cat shapes. They're finished off with royal icing for extra sweetness.
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Gooey Monster Eye Cookies
Gooey Monster Eye Cookies are just the right touch of scary. Use food coloring to dye these butter cookies green and top them off with candy eyeballs. Creepy, but delicious!
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Candy Corn and Ghost Nibbles
Hallowen Cookie Nibbles ($20) from Etsy's Crafted Cookies come with 30 mini ghost and 30 mini candy corn cookies, each of which are only one-inch in size for guilt-free Halloween snacking!
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Dracula Dentures
These Dracula Dentures look super complicated, but all they're really doing is taking your fave chocolate chip cookie recipe to the next level. All you need to add is tinted vanilla frosting, miniature marshmallows, and slivered almonds for those scary fangs.
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Witch Potion Cookies
Witch Potion Bottle Cookies ($48 for one dozen) are almost too stylish to eat, but don't worry, there's only yummy cookie (no poison) inside!
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Spider Web Cookies
These adorable Spider Web Cookies ($36 for 20) prove spiders can be sweet, not scary!
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Painted Pumpkin Cookies
These almost-too-pretty-to-eat Pumpkin Cookies use sugar cookies, royal icing, and a lot of creativity. Not to mention, they're a kid-friendly option for kiddos who get spooked easily.
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Mini Halloween Cookies
Cats, bats, skulls, pumpkins, and witch hats are all a part of Old Time Favorites' Mini Halloween Cookies set ($25 for three dozen).
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Spider Peanut Butter Blossoms
Black licorice legs and candy eyes turn a peanut butter cup into a cute spider, made even yummier sitting on top of a peanut butter cookie.
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Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies
Think of Martha Stewart's Bat Cookie — crisp chocolate cookies sandwich with a soft caramel center — as the grown-up, scary version of an Oreo.
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Assorted Halloween Cookies
These Assorted Halloween Cookies ($38) come in five dozen melt-in-your-mouth iced sugar cookie batches that look like spider webs, broom-flying witches, and pumpkins finished off with festive sprinkles.
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Pumpkin Cookie Nibbles
These not-scary-at-all Pumpkin Cookie Nibbles ($20 for five dozen) are made from buttery vanilla sugar cookies and royal icing flavored with vanilla extract.
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Bat and Cobweb Cookies
Martha Stewart's Bat and Cobweb Cookies are made with gingerbread and lemony royal icing. Spooky and sweet!
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Nutter Butter Ghosts
Nutter Butters are naturally ghost-shaped, so dip them in white chocolate, add some mini chocolate chips for eyes, and you're done. The only thing to be scared of: how addictive these cookies can be!
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Halloween Cookie Set
A Halloween cookie box ($46) from 1 Stop Cookie Shop includes 12 mini sugar cookies topped with delicious buttercream icing. Perfect for your Halloween party!
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Candy Corn Cookies
A Halloween cookie treat! If you're planning a haunted party this All Hallows' Eve, thank your guests for stopping by with Candy Corn Cookie Favors ($21 for 6) decorated in traditional Halloween colors with adorable little faces.
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Boo! and Eek! Cookies
Spice up your kid's next bash with these festive shortbread Halloween Cookies ($48 for a dozen) that go outside the box with spooky cats, funky skulls, vampire teeth, and eerie gravestones.
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Spooky Square Cookies
You don't need to buy fancy cookie cutters to create stunning Halloween cookies. Just bake square ones and let your artistry do the rest — from a simple jack-o'-lantern to a handsome little Dracula!
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Halloween Cookies
Trick or treat? These delicately decorated Halloween Cookies ($12 and up) are not only gorgeous, they're finger-licking good!
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Glitter and Glam Halloween Cookies
Jazz it up! All Hallows' Eve isn't all about ghouls and goblins and creatures that go thump in the night. Give your Halloween cookies a touch of glam with glitter!
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