Scare Your Guests with The Best Halloween Desserts

When you think about Halloween, what images pop into your head? You likely first think about Jack o’lanterns, ghosts, witches, and other creepy supernatural things. While those images epitomize the holiday, we can also celebrate them through a tasty halloween dessert. Whether you have kids or you’re a kid at heart, you can prepare several types of desserts that celebrate the Halloween season.

Here are some ideas for creating Halloween desserts that are just as fun to make, as they are to eat:

1. Rice Crispy Ghosts.
Transform a classic dessert into a new halloween dessert. After making basic Rice Crispy treats, let them cool. Then use a cookie cutter shaped like a ghost, to form ghost-shaped Rice Crispy treats. Next, use white icing to cover the whole ghost. Afterwards, use candies and melted chocolate to create the ghost’s eyes and mouth.

2. Worm Gelatin.
After refrigerating gelatin for about 1.5 hours, press some gummy worms into it. Next, refrigerate the gelatin for another 2-3 hours. Place the container holding the gelatin into warm water, for roughly 15 seconds. Loosen up the edges. Then put a plate atop the container. After flipping over the gelatin mixture, use more gummy worms to garnish it.

3. Big Pumpkin Cookie.
Making this enormous cookie is as fun as eating it. First, shape cookie dough into an eight-inch pumpkin shape and then place it on a greased baking sheet. After the cookie has baked for 16-18 minutes, let the cookie cool. Use icing, candy, and melted chocolate to decorate the cookie. This single cookie makes 16 servings!

4. Eyeball Cupcakes.
While cupcakes are a favorite among kids and adults alike, this version is especially enjoyable (to see and eat) for the Halloween season. To create the eyeball, place a "gummy" Lifesaver in the middle of the cupcake, to function as the retina. Then put half a (black) jelly bean in the middle of the Lifesaver, to serve as the pupil. Mix red food coloring and white frosting together, to create a mixture for the eye’s veins.

5. Chocolate-Dipped Caramel Apples.
Use waxed paper to line a baking sheet. Then cook a caramel and water mixture over medium heat, until the caramel has completely melted. Next, place wooden sticks into the ends of the apples containing the stem. Dip each apple into the caramel blend, until the apple is completely covered.

After melting a semisweet chocolate, dip the apples into the mixture so that half of the fruit has been coated. You can then roll the candied apples in coconut flakes or chopped nuts, to add extra flavor and texture to the dessert.

6. Black Orange Spooky Cups.
Blend chocolate pudding and milk. Using the mixture, fill the glasses halfway. Next, blend two cups of milk and vanilla pudding mix; and add orange food coloring. Then add this layer onto the layer of chocolate pudding. Add crushed Oreo cookies on top.

Halloween can be one of the most fun holidays for both kids and adults. Preparing one of these halloween dessert recipes will make anyone who tries them thrilled to death!