21 Boo-tiful Halloween Cookies

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Is your tot a cookie monster? Halloween is right around the corner, and mamas are getting ready for the spookiest — and sweetest! — night of the year. Giving out store-bought candy to little trick-or-treaters is common practice, but why not dazzle them with an extra something special in their goodie bags this year? Check out these 21 boo-tiful and delicious Halloween cookies and get inspired to bake (or buy) for this festive occasion. They also make delectable party favors if you're hosting a monster bash!

Additional reporting by Murphy Moroney

Trick-or-Treat Cookies
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Trick-or-Treat Cookies

Playful trick-or-treat cookies are twice the fun. Outside, they look like simple Halloween cookies shaped like pumpkins, coffins, gravestones, and ghosts, but inside, they're stuffed with treats (mini chocolate candies) or tricks (small sugar ants).

Halloween Mini Cookies

Halloween Mini Cookies

These vanilla shortbread Halloween Mini Cookies ($25) take spooky to a new level thanks to cute pumpkin, witch hat, ghost, and cat shapes. They're finished off with royal icing for extra sweetness.

Gooey Monster Eye Cookies
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Gooey Monster Eye Cookies

Gooey Monster Eye Cookies are just the right touch of scary. Use food coloring to dye these butter cookies green and top them off with candy eyeballs. Creepy, but delicious!

Candy Corn and Ghost Nibbles
Etsy Vendor Crafted Cookies

Candy Corn and Ghost Nibbles

Hallowen Cookie Nibbles ($20) from Etsy's Crafted Cookies come with 30 mini ghost and 30 mini candy corn cookies, each of which are only one-inch in size for guilt-free Halloween snacking!

Dracula Dentures
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Dracula Dentures

These Dracula Dentures look super complicated, but all they're really doing is taking your fave chocolate chip cookie recipe to the next level. All you need to add is tinted vanilla frosting, miniature marshmallows, and slivered almonds for those scary fangs.

Witch Potion Cookies

Witch Potion Cookies

Witch Potion Bottle Cookies ($48 for one dozen) are almost too stylish to eat, but don't worry, there's only yummy cookie (no poison) inside!

Painted Pumpkin Cookies
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Painted Pumpkin Cookies

These almost-too-pretty-to-eat Pumpkin Cookies use sugar cookies, royal icing, and a lot of creativity. Not to mention, they're a kid-friendly option for kiddos who get spooked easily.

Mini Halloween Cookies

Mini Halloween Cookies

Cats, bats, skulls, pumpkins, and witch hats are all a part of Old Time Favorites' Mini Halloween Cookies set ($25 for three dozen).

Spider Peanut Butter Blossoms
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Spider Peanut Butter Blossoms

Black licorice legs and candy eyes turn a peanut butter cup into a cute spider, made even yummier sitting on top of a peanut butter cookie.

Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies
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Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies

Think of Martha Stewart's Bat Cookie — crisp chocolate cookies sandwich with a soft caramel center — as the grown-up, scary version of an Oreo.

Assorted Halloween Cookies

Assorted Halloween Cookies

These Assorted Halloween Cookies ($38) come in five dozen melt-in-your-mouth iced sugar cookie batches that look like spider webs, broom-flying witches, and pumpkins finished off with festive sprinkles.

Pumpkin Cookie Nibbles

Pumpkin Cookie Nibbles

These not-scary-at-all Pumpkin Cookie Nibbles ($20 for five dozen) are made from buttery vanilla sugar cookies and royal icing flavored with vanilla extract.

Nutter Butter Ghosts
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Nutter Butter Ghosts

Nutter Butters are naturally ghost-shaped, so dip them in white chocolate, add some mini chocolate chips for eyes, and you're done. The only thing to be scared of: how addictive these cookies can be!

Halloween Cookie Set

Halloween Cookie Set

A Halloween cookie box ($46) from 1 Stop Cookie Shop includes 12 mini sugar cookies topped with delicious buttercream icing. Perfect for your Halloween party!

Candy Corn Cookies

Candy Corn Cookies

A Halloween cookie treat! If you're planning a haunted party this All Hallows' Eve, thank your guests for stopping by with Candy Corn Cookie Favors ($21 for 6) decorated in traditional Halloween colors with adorable little faces.

Boo! and Eek! Cookies

Boo! and Eek! Cookies

Spice up your kid's next bash with these festive shortbread Halloween Cookies ($48 for a dozen) that go outside the box with spooky cats, funky skulls, vampire teeth, and eerie gravestones.

Spooky Square Cookies
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Spooky Square Cookies

You don't need to buy fancy cookie cutters to create stunning Halloween cookies. Just bake square ones and let your artistry do the rest — from a simple jack-o'-lantern to a handsome little Dracula!

Halloween Cookies

Halloween Cookies

Trick or treat? These delicately decorated Halloween Cookies ($12 and up) are not only gorgeous, they're finger-licking good!

Glitter and Glam Halloween Cookies
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Glitter and Glam Halloween Cookies

Jazz it up! All Hallows' Eve isn't all about ghouls and goblins and creatures that go thump in the night. Give your Halloween cookies a touch of glam with glitter!

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