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While packaged Halloween candy is good (some might say essential), you can't overlook the crafty fun of baked goods, bars, cakes, and other Halloween treats tricked-out to look as spooky as possible. Here, our favorite Halloween cupcakes, Halloween cookies, and other homemade sweets. The best part: kids can help make them as well as help eat them!
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Mummy Pumpkin Hand Pies
Ren Fuller
Whether for breakfast, after-school snack, or dessert, these sweet treats will hit the spot.
If you're in the market for a creative baking challenge, we've got you covered—and this one's two stories high. Build this eerie house with not one, but two cakes, then decorate it to your heart's content.
At your next Halloween party, use these thin, crispy cookies as place cards. Tips for success: Make extra cookies in case of breakage and cool them completely before writing names with icing. Find decorating icing in the baking section of grocery stores.
Bet your guests won't be able to get enough of these sweet treats! "Spooky" chocolate trees meet crushed sandwich cookies and candy pumpkins in this fun Halloween dessert.
Cameo cookies make for a spooky-sweet party favor. Use a silhouette-shaped cookie cutter to cut the cameo outline from slice-and-bake sugar cookie dough; bake as directed. Once cool, apply white royal icing to the portrait and "frame," then coat with sparkling black sanding sugar, shaking off any excess.
Get the recipe for sugar cookies.
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Magnifying Glass Cookies
Brian Woodcock
No mystery here—these sugar cookies with candy centers are guaranteed to be the hit of your Halloween bash.
If the look of these witch cupcakes aren't enough to make you squeal with joy, the ingredients will: They're topped off with a seriously unique hazelnut frosting. Seconds, please!