Looking for the best Halloween desserts to make for your spooky celebration for fall? You’ll love these easy Halloween treats from traditional pudding dirt cups with worms, simple cake mix cookies, candy bar fluff to no-bake desserts, and other fun Halloween recipes!
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Save these Halloween party foods to your favorite sweet snacks for DIY Halloween parties, October classroom celebrations, fall movie nights, and trick-or-treat gathering.
You’ll have plenty of easy Halloween food ideas to make all October long!
List of Recipes for Sweet Halloween Snacks to Make
- Worms In Dirt Cups
- Caramel Apple Dessert Board
- “Bloody” Halloween Popcorn
- Halloween Purple Popcorn Balls
- Candy Bar Dessert Salad Fluff
- Sheet Pan Oven S’mores Recipe
- No Bake Cookies & Cream Dessert Bars
- 2 Ingredient Fudge
- Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
- No Cook Banana Pudding
- Halloween Cake Mix Cookies
- Fall Pumpkin Cookies
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Halloween Dirt Pudding Cups
This mini dessert is always a hit with both kids and adults, which makes it the perfect party food recipes for a dessert table or DIY Halloween dessert bar. (Kids love being able to add their own “dirt” cookie toppings and putting in their own gummy worms “crawling” from the dirt!)
You can also use this Halloween sweet treat to make for a Halloween craft you can eat!
Get the Free Recipe Printable for Dirt Cups Here
Halloween Caramel Apple Charcuterie Board
This caramel apple snack board is an easy Halloween dessert but fun to make Halloween themed with pumpkin candy, purple and orange sprinkles and more.
Add in some Halloween candies and it makes a fun dessert board for your DIY Halloween party finger foods.
Learn How To Make a Halloween Charcuterie Board
“Bloody” Halloween Popcorn
If you’re looking for creepy Halloween party food or gross foods for Halloween, make this “bloody” Halloween popcorn.
It’s great for a Halloween popcorn bar!
Get the Bloody Halloween Popcorn Recipe
Halloween Monsters Mini Popcorn Balls
If you’re in the mood to spend a little more time on Halloween sweets, this “Flying Purple People Eater” purple popcorn ball monsters were a HUGE hit when we made them.
They’re also fun to package as Halloween party favors that your party guests can take with them.
Learn How To Make Halloween Popcorn Balls
Snickers Apple Candy Bar Salad Recipe For Halloween Desserts
This dessert salad is so simple, yet still such a yummy dessert that’s perfect for any occasion.
Also called candy bar apple salad recipe or old fashioned caramel apple salad, this sweet treat will quickly become a favorite fall apple dessert for your Halloween party.
It’s also a great way to use up leftover Halloween candy bars.
Print The Candy Bar Dessert Salad Recipe
Fall Recipe for Sheet Pan S’mores In Oven
If you’re looking for easy desserts for a group or cheap recipes for a crowd for Halloween treats, make oven s’mores!
Nothing says fall like campfire smores, but now you can make smores indoors for your Halloween party!
Get the Free Printable Recipe for Oven Smores Here
No Bake Oreo Cookies and Cream Bars
These Oreo cookies bars are a SUPER easy no-bake dessert bar recipe made with only 3 ingredients.
This sweet treat is perfect for Halloween party finger foods!
Print the Recipe for No Bake Oreo Cookies and Cream Bars
Quick 2-Ingredient Fudge Recipe for Halloween Treats
This creamy chocolate peanut butter fudge is made with just two ingredients and comes together FAST for a Halloween party dessert, especially if you need a make-and-take treat for Halloween potluck recipes.
RECIPE TIP: You can make fudge with nuts or without nuts.
Get the Fudge Recipe Printable Here
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Easy peanut butter cookies recipe is made with only 3 quick ingredients, making them perfect for yummy Halloween cookies for a party or sweet treat for the kids for trick-or-treating.
Get The Free Printable Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
No Cook Banana Pudding for Easy Party Desserts
Learn how to make banana pudding homemade taste the easy way — plus a secret recipe ingredient you’ll never guess (not sweetened condensed milk)!
This is a crowd-pleaser recipe that’s another easy Halloween potluck ideas because you can make it and serve it in the same container. Throw a lid on it to take to the Halloween gathering!
Print the Banana Pudding Recipe Card Here
Halloween Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
These chocolate cake mix cookies are easy to adapt to a Halloween dessert: while the cookies are cooling, press some edible googly eyes into the top for creepy cookies.
If you’ve never made cake mix cookies, you’ll be surprised how easy they are to bake!
Print The Cake Mix Cookies Recipe Here
Chewy Halloween Pumpkin Cookies
What would a Halloween party be if you didn’t have some kind of pumpkin dessert, right?!?
These chewy pumpkin cookies are my FAVORITE recipe for baking cookies in the fall.
You can make them with my homemade cream cheese icing or leave them uniced cookies (because they’re that good on their own!).
Get the Recipe for Pumpkin Cookies
Happy Halloween!
I hope you enjoy these Halloween desserts for your DIY Halloween party foods and sweet treats!
