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Halloween

Have a ghoulishly good time this Halloween with easy homemade Halloween treats! I have festive recipes like these Moist Pumpkin Cupcakes, filled with the warm flavors of fall spice, and party appetizers like Mummy Hot Dogs to put a little boogie in your step. Meanwhile, these Halloween Monster Cookies are all treat, no trick. These easy, spooky dessert ideas are perfect for Halloween parties or family desserts.

Easy Pumpkin Desserts

These pumpkin recipes are some of my favorites (I mean, name a better combination than pumpkins and Halloween!). These treats are on my dessert menu every year and they never disappoint.

Close up of unwrapped Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake with whipped cream

Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes

A pumpkin cupcake with cream cheese frosting with the wrapper pulled off

Moist Pumpkin Cupcakes

A top down view of pumpkin snickerdoodles laid on top of one another

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Side view of a scoop of pumpkin pie ice cream in a blue and white patterned bowl.

Pumpkin Ice Cream

Popular Halloween Food Ideas

Get spooky with these reader-favorite recipes. These are the most popular Halloween desserts on the site at the moment.

Latest Halloween Treats

Trick or treat, these easy Halloween desserts, snacks, and appetizers definitely count as something good to eat!

A cake stand with 7 different halloween cupcakes on top including a spider, monster themed, pumpkin, a mummy cupcake and a bleeding eye cupcake.

Halloween Cupcakes

Front view of a loaf of pumpkin banana bread cut into slices.

Pumpkin Banana Bread

Side view of a scoop of pumpkin pie ice cream in a blue and white patterned bowl.

Pumpkin Ice Cream

A tall stack of pumpkin pancakes on a plate, topped with pecans, butter, and maple syrup.

Pumpkin Pancakes

Close up of a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin topped with sparkling sugar, with more muffins in the background.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

A serving of apple crisp in a white bowl topped with a scoop of ice cream and drizzled with caramel sauce.

Apple Crisp

Three pumpkin swirl brownies stacked on top of one another.

Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

Close up overhead view of pumpkin sugar cookies.

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

Close up of a Halloween dirt cup decorated with a Milano cookie headstone, candy eyes, and gummy worms.

Halloween Dirt Cups

closeup of a slice of pumpkin cake on a plate

Pumpkin Cake

Close up of a white plate of candy corn sugar cookies resting on a yellow napkin.

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Close up of unwrapped Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake with whipped cream

Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes

close up shot of halloween monster cookie- tye dye orange, purple and green with M&Ms and candy eyes

Halloween Monster Cookies

a white bowl filled with with a halloween snack mix

Halloween Monster Munch

A close up of a candy corn cupcake on a white rimmed plate

Candy Corn Cupcakes

a close up of a halloween hot chocolate bomb decorated like an eyeball

Halloween Hot Chocolate Bombs

Homemade mummy hot dogs lined up on a white serving platter beside a bowl of ghost dip

Mummy Hot Dogs

A close up of a shot of slice of pumpkin cake with a blurred cinnamon sticks in the background

Pumpkin Poke Cake

A halloween themed graveyard dip with cookies and crackers next to it

Spooky Oreo Dip

Close up of a pile of pumpkin muffins on a plate.

Pumpkin Muffins