Halloween Dessert Recipes: Easy, Quick and Fun Ideas Like Ghost Brownies

There is hardly a better way to celebrate Halloween than with some unique homemade treats made with the assistance of your kids, family members or friends. Whether you go all in to celebrate this festival or just like to sit by the driveway reliving your childhood days of adult-sanctioned sugar rush, these easy Halloween dessert recipes will surely tempt you to don your baking apron.

A few options for easy Halloween dessert recipes that can be baked during the Halloween week include bat-wing chocolate truffles, pumpkin patch cake, skeleton key lime bars, cobweb cream puffs, zombie brain cupcakes, and ghostly ganache brownies.

The spooky desserts for Halloween described below are some of the perfect spells you can cast on your Halloween party guests or trick-or-treaters. Unleash that creativity and whip up some terrifyingly tasty treats for everyone to scream for more!

Ghost Brownies

Brownies were never scarier until someone, in some corner of the world, decided to lend some spooky beans to this classic treat. Hopefully, you'll not be afraid to try them out in your kitchen.

Ingredients:

• 250 gm flour
• 180 gm sugar
• 100 gm Cadbury cocoa powder
• 124 ml butter
• 3 eggs
• White icing
• Marshmallows (optional)
• Black/red food coloring (optional)

Method:

1. You have to start by preheating your oven to 180°C.
2. On the side, grease a baking pan with butter.
3. Next, in a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and Cadbury cocoa powder. Pass it through a mesh sieve to ensure there are no lumps.
4. After that, in a large bowl, beat together butter and eggs using an electric mixer, until the mix has become thick, frothy and creamy.
5. You need to then add the dry ingredients gradually to the butter mixture, and beat lightly until just combined.
6. Pour the batter into a greased baking pan, and bake for 25-30 minutes. Do make sure to take them out while they are still blonde, so that there is enough malleability in the cookies. If they become too hard and brittle, the cookies will break when the cookie cutters are impressed on them.
7. Wait to let it cool completely, slice them into rectangles, and dust them with powdered sugar.
8. Now, pipe a water droplet shape and taper off the ends to resemble the shape of a ghost. Place chocolate chips or beads in place of the eyes.
9. Alternately, you can melt one side of the marshmallows and stick the melted end to the surface of the brownie. Use a pair of scissors to carefully round out the top edges to mimic the head of the ghost.

You can make other designs of the brownie too that fit the theme. Mix black food coloring with store-bought cookie icing, and pipe out simple eye, teeth or skull designs. You can also use red cookie icing to recreate the imagery of blood spatterings.

Witch's Brew Punch

This Halloween-themed beverage can be served as a drink or combined with dry ice to make into a sorbet or slushie.

Ingredients:

• 2 l lemon-lime soda
• 500 ml pineapple juice
• 250 ml ginger ale
• 120 ml simple syrup
• Slices of orange, lemon, and lime
• Dry ice
• Dried rosemary or mint (for garnish, optional)

Method:

1. In a large pitcher, start by combining lemon-lime soda, pineapple juice, and ginger ale.
2. Then, you need to add simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water, dissolved), and stir everything to combine. You can use honey or maple syrup too to sweeten your brew.
3. To this pitcher, add small pieces of oranges, lemons, and lime juice to make it fragrant and colorful.
4. Refrigerate this for 45 minutes before serving.
5. Add that eerie aesthetic to it, add dry ice into the punch so that it creates scary smoke effects. Alternately, pour the drink over a bowl of dry ice and mix it around with a wooden spoon or ladle for a minute to turn your concoction into a sorbet.
6. Now, serve with a sprig of dried rosemary or mint to give a savory edge to the sorbet. You can even freeze the fruit slices

Spider Web Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 252 gm flour
• 153 gm sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 120 gm butter
• 2 eggs
• White frosting

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Then, mix in all dry ingredients – flour, sugar, and baking powder in a medium-sized bowl.
3. Next, scramble butter and egg in a large mixing bowl using an electrical mixer until the combination is smooth and glossy.
4. Then, you have to add the dry ingredients gradually to the mixture of butter until a dough is formed.
5. Roll it out to 6 mm thickness.
6. Then, cut the dough into your desired shapes using a cookie cutter. You can even use a sharp knife and trace out ghost shapes.
7. Carefully place the cookies 3.5 cm apart on a prepared baking tray and bake them for 10-12 minutes.
8. Once baked, you need to put the cookies on a wire rack to cool completely.
9. Before serving, pipe the frosting to draw up spider web designs on them.