Halloween can be a whole lot of spooky fun for everyone. From creating the perfect DIY Halloween costume to updating your gallery wallto indulging in boo-zy Halloween co*cktails all Halloween season long, it can be a busy time of year, too. Here's a kitchen time-saver: no-bake Halloween treats. Tackle all your Halloween plans with these treats that are frightfully easy to make and fun for kids and parties. No oven necessary.
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Creepy Petit Fours
Nothing says Halloween quite like a smattering of bite-sized blood. Shards of sugar make a just-as-creepy cake topper.
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Blood and Bones co*cktail
What could be creepier than bone-inspired jello shots? Let them float in a blood-red co*cktail. Cheers!
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No-Bake Mummy Sponge Cake
Get ready to unleash your inner artist and freehand a mummy design with this delicious sponge cake recipe.
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Frankengoblin Jello Shots
Oreos. Jello. Are you sensing a theme here? These cookie jiggler shooters will scare your socks off.
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Homemade Candy Bars
In case your local grocery store is all out of your favorite Halloween candy, you can make your own!
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Reese's Peanut Butter Shooters
Take your favorite Halloween candy up a notch with some chocolate vodka.
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Gummy Worm Ice
Don't like creepy crawlers? Trap them in ice for the perfect co*cktail garnish.
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Candy Corn Popcorn
Since we can't enjoy candy corn year-round, let's go candy corn overboard this whole month. This no-bake doubles the fun with candy corn popcorn served in a tricolor waffle cone.
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Candy Corn Jello Shots
Let your partygoers shoot back these tasty shots of festive color and scary spirit. Pro Tip: Always make extra shooters!
Spooky Punch
Servings: 12
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- 4 cups white tea such as POM Pomegranate Orange Blossom White Tea
- 2 cups vodka, tequila, or gin
- 1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
- 2 cups orange or mandarin juice such as Wonderful Halos mandarin juice
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 cups sparkling water
- Lychees and oranges, sliced for garnish
- Ice
Preparation:
- In a large bowl or pitcher, add white tea, spirit of choice, water, pineapple juice, mandarin juice and water.
- Stir to combine.
- Top with sparkling water, and garnish with lychees and orange slices.
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Halloween Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip
This is basically pumpkin-spice cream cheese frosting in a bowl — the way it was meant to be eaten.
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Sweet and Salty Healthier Caramel Apples
While you do need to heat up the maple syrup, honey, cream, and vanilla to make the caramel, all you have to do after that is dip apples into the caramel and drizzle with chocolate.
Halloween Bats
Created by Jodi Levine
Supplies:
- Mandarins such as Wonderful Halos mandarins
- Food coloring marker
- Scissors
- Black heavyweight paper or card stock
- Paring knife or clean craft knife
- Adhesive dots
Instructions:
- Draw jack-o-lantern faces onto the mandarins with the food coloring marker.
- Cut pairs of bat wings, leaving an extra bit, around ¼”, on the flat side to fold back and act as a tab. Add an adhesive dot to the tab to adhere each wing to the mandarin.
- Cut pairs of small triangles for ears. Use the knife to cut small shallow slits on the top of the mandarin and tuck in the ears. (TIP: If you don’t have adhesive dots you can cut shallow slits for the wings too!)
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Easy Pumpkin Patties
Whip up these festive homemade candies for a treat that will put your actual Halloween candy to shame. Each bite is as buttery and sugary as the last.
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Peanut Butter Candy Corn Bark
Just in case caramel's not your thing. ;) Plus, you can't go wrong with pretzels and PB.
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Spiderweb Cheesecake Halloween Treat
The itsy bitsy spider… ended up on your Halloween cheesecake. That you didn't have to bake.
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Halloween Chocolate Bars
Did you know you could make candy corn- and Oreo-filled brownies without using your oven? This is turning into the best Halloween ever.
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Black Cat Cookies
Our favorite thing about these ominous feline bites is that the cookies are pre-made. And totally smothered in melted chocolate. Me-ow.
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Butterfinger Fudge
Here's another homemade (and more adult) spin on one of Halloween's staple sweets.
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Homemade Almond Joy and Mounds Bars
It seems these candy bars only make an appearance come Halloween. But we're willing to bet the homemade kind will stick around all year. They're that good.
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Mummy Truffles Halloween Treat
These mummy truffle bites don't have a trace of “scary" thanks to the decadent pumpkin cheesecake filling.
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Vegan Twix Bars
Something tells us the word “healthy" never comes to mind when you're eating a Twix. That's all about to change.
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Cheerios and Chocolate Tart
You're never too old for a helping of Cheerios. Especially when they're looking at you from this jack-o'-lantern tart.
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Halloween Monster Marshmallows
These sweet desserts are about as no-bake as it gets. Plus, you only need four ingredients: candy eyes, candy melts, oil, and marshmallows.
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Pumpkin S'moreos
Here's a crazy idea: Let's combine summer's favorite treat with milk's favorite cookie and Halloween's favorite flavor. Yum, yum, yum.
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Halloween Spider Donuts
Here, you'll use not just one, but TWO donuts per treat: one traditional donut and one donut hole.
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No-Bake Sugar Wafer Frankenstein Cookies
For this DIY dessert, all you'll need are sugar wafers, candy melts, chocolate sprinkles, and candy eyes. Yes, if you haven't gotten the hint already: You NEED to buy some candy eyes.
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Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Halloween Treats
These layered cookies-and-pudding cups are *to die for* (see what we did there?).
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DIY Halloween Monster Apple Bites
This kid-friendly DIY is only *kinda* creepy. It's also really cute, and a surprisingly healthy Halloween stack: It's made from apples, peanut butter, strawberries, corn, and — you guessed it — candy eyes.
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Peanut Butter Zombie Eyeballs
It may be hard to believe, but these super-cool zombie eyeballs are simple to make. Just make sure you give yourself enough time to prepare them before your big party: They'll need at least an hour or two to make, including chill time in the fridge.
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This post has been updated. Previous reporting by Miranda Eifler and Maggie McCracken.
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Theresa Gonzalez is a content creator based in San Francisco and the author of Sunday Sews. She's a lover of all things design and spends most of her days momming her little one Matilda.
