Halloween Desserts and Spooky Sweets!
This time of year, everyone’s sweet tooth awakens! We have the best ideas for Halloween desserts for all ages, young and old. Read on for suggestions for Halloween desserts that make the most of the season’s best!
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Halloween desserts with seasonal flavors
Baked goods that showcase the autumnal harvest’s bounty
Nostalgic Halloween dessert ideas for adults, and
Creative ways to make the most out of leftover Halloween candy!
Any of these treats will satiate your sweet tooth and ensure that you won’t be caught raiding the kids’ candy basket in the middle of the night. Well, maybe not.
1. Sugar & Spice
Tis the season for warming spices and deeper flavors. Conjure open your spice cupboard and add these potions and powders into your cauldron: cinnamon, cardamom, pumpkin spice, molasses and maple sugar! Brew up a spooky, spicy treat that will bewitch your senses:
For an easy Halloween dessert with spice that keeps you cozy on a brisk day, snap into some ginger cookies or molasses cookies!
Bake a spice cake on a chilly day, and your whole home will smell like fall.
Cinnamon buns and cardamom buns are as welcome on the dessert buffet as they are on the breakfast table. Turn these traditional fall baked goods into cute Halloween desserts by dressing them up with icing faces, and the glaze is the gauzy apparition of a ghost!
2. Fruits of the Harvest
Autumn is the perfect season to incorporate the fall harvest into your Halloween desserts. Use seasonal produce like root vegetables, squash, and fresh-picked apples for the freshest fall flavors in your Halloween desserts.
Pumpkin bread (available for delivery from our bakery), apple crumble, these are tried and true fall favorites for a reason!
This is also a fun time for carrot cake. A root vegetable in season, spiced with cinnamon and frosted white as a ghost. Plus, it’s orange!
Speaking of bold colors, mix it up with ube! Ube has been a trendy flavor lately and is a natural choice for Halloween desserts. The purple hue of this sweet potato invokes the bold gothic tones of Halloween, and the starchy sweet flavor is unique and fun!
3. Nostalgic Favorites
When I think of nostalgic Halloween desserts, I think of the Peanuts Halloween special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” I have fond memories of Halloween parties in school where we drank apple cider, and either bobbed for apples or tried to eat powdered sugar doughnuts hung from a tree branch with our hands behind our backs. If any of these stirred up memories of a simpler time for you, then imagine what a treat any of these would be as Halloween dessert ideas for adults (who are really kids at heart)! What are some spooky Halloween desserts that you remember?
Candied apples and popcorn balls will conjure up memories of Halloweens past
Make witches’ fingers by dipping pretzel rods in frosting and adding slivered almond “fingernails,” a classic Halloween treat
Why not a Halloween-themed dirt cup? Layer chocolate pudding with crushed chocolate cookies, and decorate with gummy worms and a Nilla Wafer tombstone. Rest in Pudding!
4. All About The Candy
Some easy Halloween desserts make use of what you already have on hand: candy! I, for one, have never had leftover candy, but if you find yourself in that position, you can get creative!
Fun-size chocolate bars can be rough-chopped and added to brownie batter for gooey, extra chocolatey brownies: Halloween desserts for kids to help make and enjoy.
A festive Puppy Chow with leftover candy corn and malt balls, and raisinettes is a creative idea!
If you’re looking for ideas for how to make a Halloween cake, I would frost a round cake to look like a Halloween candy bucket - you know, orange plastic jack-o-lantern with triangle-shaped eyes and a toothy grin? And then, to decorate the top, heap the leftover candy so that each slice gets an added surprise!
Trick or Treat!
If you’re curious where to buy Halloween desserts in NYC, swing by and haunt our bakery at 936 Fulton Street! Every year, we scare up a selection of inspired sweets and treats for Halloween fans of all ages. And for tips on what to do on Halloween in Brooklyn, we’ve got you covered.
