15 Spooky Halloween Baking Recipes You Can Make in Under an Hour

Directions

1. For bloody cherry hand pies, prepare a cocoa-flavored pie crust (or buy pre-made), fill with canned cherry pie filling, cut out spooky face shapes, and bake about 45 minutes until the red filling bubbles out.
2. Red Velvet Whoopie Skulls: mix red velvet cake batter, pour into a silicone skull mold, bake for 18-20 minutes, then sandwich two skull halves with cream cheese filling.
3. Sausage Mummies: wrap puff pastry strips around sausages, leaving a gap for eyes, bake 15-18 minutes until golden, then attach edible candy eyes or add mustard dots.
4. Graveyard Brownies: bake brownie batter in a sheet pan, sprinkle crushed Oreos on top for dirt, stand Milano cookies upright as tombstones, and pipe chocolate vines around.
5. Witch Fingers: shape butter cookie dough into knobby finger forms, press an almond into the tip for a nail, use a fondant modeling tool to add wrinkles, bake, and serve with strawberry or raspberry jam.
6. Creepy Brain Cupcakes: bake chocolate cupcakes, pipe pink frosting into loopy shapes inside a half-sphere silicone mold, freeze for 10-15 minutes, then unmold and place on top of cupcakes.
7. Snake Pretzels: form dough into long ropes, coil into snake shapes, boil in baking soda water, brush with egg wash, bake, then press a dried cranberry into one end for an eye.
8. Skull Galette: make a cocoa pie crust with raspberry jam, macerate sliced pears in red wine, carve skull outlines into the pears using a melon baller and knife, arrange on the crust, and bake with sliced almonds or edible flowers.
9. Banana Mummies: halve bananas lengthwise, wrap each half in thin puff pastry strips, bake until golden, cool, then add candy eyes and dust with powdered sugar.
10. Quick Spider Cakes: bake mini cakes, pour white chocolate ganache over the top, pipe black icing in concentric circles and drag a toothpick through to create a web, then top with a plastic or candy spider.
11. Ghost-Topped Cheesecake Bars: press Oreo crumbs into a pan for the crust, pour cheesecake batter over top, swirl in orange, green, and purple gel food coloring, bake until set, chill, slice, and finish each bar with a dollop of whipped cream shaped like a ghost and candy eyes.
12. Creepy Cinnamon Roll Bake: arrange cinnamon rolls in a squiggly, intestine-like pattern in a baking dish, bake, then generously drizzle with red icing or raspberry sauce.
13. Mini Mummies: bake small square cakes, let cool, then pipe pink frosting in overlapping lines across the top to mimic bandages, and add candy eyes to peek through.
14. Spider Pizzas: top personal-sized cheese pizzas with sliced black olives arranged to look like spiders, then bake until the cheese melts and the crust is golden.
15. Pumpkin Buns: tie baker's twine around whole wheat bun dough balls to create pumpkin ridges, brush with egg wash, add a pretzel stick as a stem, and bake until golden.