Easy Halloween Dessert Ideas for the Spookiest Party of the Year

Hosting a houseful of hungry ghosts and goblins this year? That means you will need a couple of sweets.

We've compiled a list of some easy Halloween dessert ideas to help you give your celebration the ghoulishly lovely spread it deserves. This features a ton of inventive ideas for apple pie, pumpkin treats, and Halloween sweets.

Go check them out now!

Some easy and simple Halloween dessert ideas

Halloween Dessert Ideas

Candied Apples

Candy apples are a treat you can easily create at home, even if you've probably only ever tasted them at state fairs, orchards, and similar events.

These beautiful fall sweets are easy to make, requiring only a few ingredients, 30 minutes, and a candy thermometer for any fall or Halloween celebration.

Candied apples for Halloween

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

It's time to come out of the closet if you've been hiding a hidden obsession for pumpkin-spiced foods. 

It is among the spooky Halloween dessert ideas that create a highly seasonal fall treat by combining homemade or store-bought pumpkin purée with fast handmade sugar cookie dough flavored with pumpkin spices.

Pumpkin sugar cookies

Vampire Poke Cake

The whole family will love this whimsically eerie twist on the classic American poke cake. 

It's a sweet and spooky treat made of soft almond cake flavored with sour cherry sauce (aka "blood") and topped off with airy, fluffy whipped cream.

Vampire poke cake

Puffed Rice Paper Ghost Cake

This spooky-cute layer cake would look great on your Halloween table as a haunting scene. With a little inspiration from the popular rice paper wrapper fad, create your own creepy decorations. 

Just cut the wrappers into ghostly shapes rather than flowers. Cooking them in hot oil brings them to life in a matter of seconds.

Puffed rice paper ghost cake

Chocolate-Hazelnut Swirl Cake

You could go into a trance when you see the cobweb-like design on this chocolate hazelnut swirl cake. 

Without going overboard, chocolate hazelnut spread and cocoa powder give the cake a deep, chocolatey flavor. With every bite, the hazelnut and brown sugar streusel will give you chills.

Chocolate-hazelnut swirl cake

Ghost Brownies

These ghostly white chocolate brownies with a Halloween theme provide a spooktacular backdrop. Melted white chocolate and dabs of store-bought black frosting for the lips and eyes make these incredibly simple to assemble ghosts. 

The brownies are coated in a salty-sweet chocolate glaze that falls somewhere between fudgy and cakey, and it really brings out the ghosts.

Ghost brownies

Monster Bark

This crispy treat is what you should offer during your next monster mash! Your kids will appreciate the spooky-fun appearance that the sugar eyes give it.

Read more: Halloween appetizer ideas

Monster bark

Dirt Pudding

A traditional kids' dish that everyone may prepare is dirt pudding. Although the use of crushed Oreos as a substitute for soil and gummy worms as a garnish may seem silly, this rich and creamy layered dessert tastes very delicious!

Dirt pudding

Spider Cookies

These chocolate and peanut butter cookies are a great complement to any celebration—they're cute, creepy and most importantly, delicious. Moreover, they are simpler to make than they appear! 

They mold the body with tiny peanut butter cups.

Spider cookies

Apple Cider Donuts

Apple cider donuts are one of the Halloween dessert ideas easy that are dusted with cinnamon sugar, and homemade versions taste much better.

Unless you have a donut cutter, you can still cut out the holes and the donuts using a drinking glass and a bottle cap. Nobody will ever find out!

Apple cider donuts

Pumpkin Trifle

Have some friends around to celebrate? Make this amazing dessert and serve it to everyone. Topped with whipped cream and candied ginger, there are layers of spice cake, creamy pumpkin filling, and gingersnap cookies. 

All the goblins and ghosts will be impressed!

Pumpkin trifle

Boozy Screamsicle Shakes

Another perfect Halloween dessert idea for party! These shakes are so good that they will lure everyone outside to the yard. And if everything about creamsicles is your obsession? This creamsicle cheesecake is a must-try.

Read more: Best Halloween cocktails

Boozy screamsicle shakes

Mummy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Have no idea what black cocoa powder is? It's the reason Oreos appear so ominous. To get a comparable rich shade, it is also used in conjunction with normal cocoa powder in this recipe.

Mummy dark chocolate cupcakes

What If You Don’t Have Time to Make Halloween Desserts?

The aforementioned Halloween party dessert ideas are great and quite easy to do. However, you might want to consider purchasing some Halloween sweets to save time and effort if you have no time and can't manage the party yourself.