75 Cute Halloween Cookie Ideas

Directions

1. Roll sugar cookie dough to even thickness and use a round cutter to make circles.
2. Bake until edges are just lightly golden, then cool completely.
3. Pipe vanilla frosting in a tall ghost-like swirl on each cookie.
4. Press mini chocolate chips into the frosting for eyes and a mouth.
5. Allow the frosting to set slightly before serving.
6. Spread orange frosting between two vanilla wafer cookies.
7. Let a little frosting show around the edges so the pumpkin color stands out.
8. Press a small piece of pretzel stick into the top center like a stem.
9. Add a few green sprinkles near the stem for leaves.
10. Arrange them together on a tray like a patch of mini pumpkins.
11. Divide butter cookie dough into three portions.
12. Leave one portion plain, tint one with yellow food coloring, and one with orange.
13. Layer the dough colors in candy corn order and chill until firm.
14. Slice into triangles and bake until lightly golden.
15. Cool fully so the stripes stay clean and visible.
16. Scoop and bake chocolate cookie dough into round cookies.
17. Press almond slices into the tops while still warm to look like cat ears.
18. Add yellow candy for glowing eyes.
19. Pipe tiny whiskers or a mouth with white gel icing.
20. Let everything set before serving.
21. Bake small rounds of chocolate chip cookie dough.
22. Cool completely before decorating.
23. Spread or drizzle colored frosting over the tops in different monster shades.
24. Add one, two, or three candy eyes to each one.
25. Finish with Halloween sprinkles so every cookie looks slightly different.
26. Roll butter cookie dough into small balls and place on a baking sheet.
27. Press a thumbprint into the center of each one.
28. Fill the center with orange marmalade.
29. Bake until lightly golden and cooled.
30. Use black gel icing to pipe tiny pumpkin faces around the orange center.
31. Roll out Linzer cookie dough and cut matching rounds.
32. Cut the center from half of the cookies with a spiderweb cookie cutter or web-like shape.
33. Bake and cool the cookies completely.
34. Spread the bottoms with raspberry jam and top with the cutout cookies.
35. Dust lightly with powdered sugar before serving.
36. Prepare sugar cookie mix and shape into balls.
37. Roll the dough balls in orange and purple sprinkles.
38. Bake until set and lightly crackled on top.
39. Press candy eyes into the cookies while still slightly warm.
40. Cool so the eyes stay in place.
41. Lay out fudge stripe cookies flat side up.
42. Add a dot of orange icing in the center.
43. Press a chocolate kiss onto each cookie to make a hat shape.
44. Add a few Halloween sprinkles around the base like a hat band.
45. Let them sit until the icing is firm.
46. Mix softened cream cheese with a little powdered sugar.
47. Scoop pumpkin cookie dough and flatten slightly.
48. Add a small spoonful of cheesecake filling to the center and wrap dough around it.
49. Sprinkle lightly with pumpkin pie spice.
50. Bake until soft and set, then cool before serving.
51. Roll out chocolate sugar cookie dough evenly.
52. Cut out bat shapes with a bat cookie cutter.
53. Sprinkle tops lightly with black sanding sugar.
54. Bake until set and slightly crisp around the edges.
55. Cool completely before stacking or plating.
56. Insert lollipop sticks carefully into Oreo cookies.
57. Cut black licorice into short spider legs and tuck into the sides.
58. Use white icing to attach candy eyes.
59. Let the cookies sit until everything is secure.
60. Arrange them upright or lay flat on a tray.
61. Bake or prepare shortbread cookies in rectangles or simple rounds.
62. Cool completely.
63. Pipe white icing across each cookie in loose mummy-style bands.
64. Leave a small opening and add candy eyes there.
65. Let the icing set before serving.
66. Roll out sugar cookie dough and cut with a house cookie cutter.
67. Use a small knife to cut little window openings in the center.
68. Fill the openings with crushed orange hard candy.
69. Bake until cookies are set and candy has melted into shiny windows.
70. Cool fully before moving so the windows stay smooth.