Sweet Treats, No Tricks! Halloween Party Food Ideas

After dressing up in fun costumes, the best part of Halloween is the delicious treats! Let our Halloween desserts and sweets idea gallery inspire you to make some tasty party goodies – like these Monster Cookie Pops – that are as impressive as they are easy.

Visiting the Haunted Manor is sweet instead of scary when you bake cupcakes and decorate them with house and moon picks and these wraps that look like curvy wrought iron railings. Pile your treats on a matching Haunted Manor Cupcake Stand for an impressive display. Serve decorated sugar cookies that look like cats, bats, ghosts and pumpkins – just the kind of things that you might find in a haunted house.

Make your apple cider extra inviting by serving it with spider ice cubes. They're easy to make by adding plastic spider rings to ice cube trays that you fill with water and freeze. Pour your punch into a creepy Midnight Dreary bowl and serve it up with a bone-shaped ladle. Just make sure everyone removes the spider ring from their cup before drinking.

Instead of baking just one Halloween dessert, try creating a dessert buffet with a variety of sweet and scary treats like chocolate Witch Fingers on pretzels; Monster Cookie Pops decorated like a mummy, vampire, purple monster and Frankenstein; and an assortment of shaped cookies. Display the taller treats by anchoring them in bowls or vases filled with candy corn or M&Ms. For Wilton Candy Melts and candy, visit your nearest Party City store.

Chocolate lovers with a morbid sense of humor will devour this edible Graveyard Cake. The Duff Graveyard Cake Kit comes with everything you need to decorate edible tombstone cookies with icing inscriptions, skulls, bats and worms. Serve them atop a deep chocolate cake for a serious dessert that even adults will love.

Cupcake decorating is a party activity everybody loves, even superheroes, witches and pirates! Bake a couple batches of cupcakes and top them in vanilla frosting. Set out small bowls filled with Halloween sprinkes and colored sugars, then let your guests create their own edible masterpieces.

These cupcakes are as macabre as they are delicious, thanks to thrilling edible decorations. For Pick Your Poison cupcakes, bake your favorite recipe in the set's cups and then top with black sugar, picks and skull icing decorations. To make the Bloody Dagger look, bake cupcakes in Trick or Treat Baking Cups then frost with chocolate, caramel and vanilla icing to look like flesh. Add a squirt of Red Sparkle Gel and finish off with Meat Cleaver Icing Decorations.

Spiders are creepy and crawly and quite tasty too when they're made into cupcakes! Bake up a couple batches of cupcakes in Spider Frenzy Baking Cups, then turn them into an assortment of arachnids. We used gumballs and Sixlet chocolates to form the bodies and black licorice or gel icing for legs. We topped other cupcakes with Spider Sprinkles. Decorating spider cakes also makes a fun party activity.

Displaying sugar skulls decorated with flowers and the names of departed loved ones is a common custom for Dia de los Muertos. We used those sugar skulls or calaveras from Dia de los Muertos as inspiration for a Skull Cake. Bake a pumpkin spice cake, cover it in white rolled fondant icing and then decorate it with icing flowers and flourishes.

Put a trendy and playful spin on Halloween treats with these wicked-cute Duff Baking Cups featuring a duo of understated designs in warm, autumnal colors. Top your cupcakes with Duff Cupcake Tattoos in a shaded spider web pattern. Pair them with Perfect Bite Cake Pops – they add a touch of whimsy to any dessert table.