If you’re hosting a Halloween party or thinking of easy Halloween bakes, you’ve come to the right place! This collection of Halloween recipes has a bit of everything – cupcakes, cookies, chocolate traybakes and a stunning Halloween celebration cake.
They are all easy enough for beginner bakers and most can be made ahead of time if you’re hosting a party. So grab your apron and a mixing bowl, ask Alexa to play a spooky Halloween playlist and dive into these fun and simple Halloween baking ideas for October!
easy halloween baking ideas for parties
Here are some of my favourite easy Halloween bakes – each one is simple to make, fun and perfect for a Halloween gathering.
Easy Halloween Bakes For Kids
This collection of easy Halloween bakes includes everything from cute cupcakes and cookies to easy traybakes and a showstopping Halloween celebration cake. All of the recipes are easy enough to make no matter how confident a baker you are. So grab your apron and get baking!
This Halloween Graveyard Cake is fun to make and will delight your little trick or treaters! Kids will love to help decorate this chocolate traybake with chocolate icing, chocolate biscuit "gravestones", and gummy worms. Use whatever Halloween sweets you like for different effects!
These cute little Meringue Ghosts are simple to make but so effective - they are sure to go down a storm at any Halloween gathering. Make a batch and watch them disappear very quickly!
An easy and spooktastic No-Bake Halloween Rocky Road made with crushed biscuits, melted chocolate, mini marshmallows and Halloween sweets.
These Gingerbread Mummies are a fun Halloween bake that look cute and taste delicious!
These creepy black velvet eyeball cupcakes will be the talk of your Halloween party! They might look gross, but they are delicious - light and fluffy red velvet flavour sponge filled with strawberry jam and topped with black chocolate buttercream swirls. Top them with a jelly eyeball sweet and jam for a dripping blood effect!
These Spooky Spider Cookies are a cute and spooky twist on the chocolate chip cookie for Halloween!
This Halloween Chocolate Drip Cake is a stunning showstopper cake for a Halloween party. Four layers of rich Devil's chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and a shiny chocolate ganache drip.
These spooky puff pastry wrapped sausage "mummies" are a great addition to a Halloween buffet - They take no more than 30 minutes of your time - kids and adults love them!
Barmbrack is a traditional fruit cake that was originally served on Halloween but is now enjoyed all year long in Ireland. The dried fruit is soaked in tea overnight for a really moist, delicious cake that's delicious sliced and spread with butter. A more grown-up Halloween recipe, yes, but still easy enough to get the kids involved in making.
Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes! That sweet, spicy Autumnal hot drink in cupcake form. Soft, moist spiced coffee spiked pumpkin cupcakes topped with a pumpkin spiced whipped cream topping.
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Easy cookies, cupcakes and traybakes are best – children can help with mixing – and give them plenty of creative license to decorate them however they please – it’s a great way to keep them entertained for a while! (I know, I know, the clean up afterwards is never fun – but you’re making memories….
Yes – apart from the Sausage mummies, all of the cakes and biscuits above can be made 1-2 days ahead of time. Store them in an airtight tin and decorate on the day (or day before) you intend to serve them.
You can find Halloween sprinkles and candy eyes in most major UK supermarkets, but I really like the sprinkles from Sprinkly – they have a really great range – their Christmas selection is also very good!
🎃Halloween is such a great excuse to have fun in the kitchen. I hope these simple Halloween bakes inspire you! If you try any of these recipes, please let me know how you got on – and feel free to share your photos with me on Facebook and Instagram. 🎃