Looking for the best Halloween desserts to share with friends and family this spooky season? These sweet treats are sure to delight and surprise!

A collection The Little Epicurean's best Halloween desserts, featuring cakes, cupcakes, and donuts. Satisfy your sweet tooth one with one of these treats.
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Are you on team candy or team chocolate? Or does your sweet tooth love all things sugar?

From bloody red velvet cupcakes to death by chocolate cake, you’re sure to find something for your celebration.

Bloody Red Velvet Cupcakes with raspberry sauce and mini sugar cleaver knife.

Table of Contents

1. Bloody Red Velvet Cupcakes

In my opinion, the best halloween desserts are portable and easy to eat. This red velvet checks all the boxes!

It’s a traditional red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. For a shocking touch, it’s topped wtih raspberry coulis and the cutest little royal icing meat cleavers.

Mini Baked Pumpkin Donuts with cinnamon glaze on white serving plate.

2. Baked Pumpkin Donuts

These mini pumpkin donuts are like the comforting embrace of an old friend.

The baked donuts are moist and packed with pumpkin flavor. Top with festive sprinkles for the perfect classy Halloween treat!

fried doughnuts filled with pumpkin cheesecake.

3. Pumpkin Cheesecake Donuts

Brioche doughnuts filled with pumpkin cheesecake and coated with ground graham cracker sugar.

Easy to decorate Halloween cupcakes using a variety of store-bought cookies and candies.

4. Easy Halloween Cupcakes

This post features 10 easy simple ways to decorate cupcakes for Halloween using a variety of store-bought candies.

Do you want the crazy Oreo owl? How about the licorice legs spider?

Chocolate Spider Web Cake on gold cake stand.

5. Chocolate Spider Web Cake

Three layers of chocolate cake frosted with a simple chocolate American buttercream.

Add melted marshmallow spider webs for a sweet spooky touch!

Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake on wooden cake stand.

6. Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake

Celebrate the warm flavors of autumn with this brown butter pumpkin cake.

It’s a small 6-inch cake that packs a punch of delicious intense fall flavors!

a variety of colorful Monster Marshmallow Cereal Treats on dark background.

7. Monster Marshmallow Cereal Treats

Let your creative side run wild with these Halloween cereal treats.

Use a variety of colorful frosting and assorted decorations to make these no-bake desserts truly unique!

slice of Chocolate Hazelnut Pumpkin Pie on white plate.

8. Chocolate Hazelnut Pumpkin Pie

Chocolate hazelnut graham cracker crust with pumpkin cheesecake filling. It’s topped with chocolate ganache and chopped roasted hazelnuts.

White cake being sliced into with red raspberry blood oozing out.

9. Surprise Bloody Cake

This bloody cake will definitely shock and surprise your Halloween guests.

It’s made of four layers of vanilla cake, vanilla Swiss buttercream, and raspberry coulis (aka my version of fake blood!).

three slices of Pumpkin Cake with Cinnamon Maple Buttercream.

10. Cinnamon Maple Pumpkin Cake

Four layers of moist pumpkin cake frosted with cinnamon maple Swiss buttercream.

This cake tastes like autumn in a bite!

Spider Web Cheesecake Tart on fluted white platter.

11. Spider Web Cheesecake Tart

Chocolate almond crust, luscious cheesecake filling, and a spider web made out of melted chocolate.

Decorate with a plastic toy spider or make an edible spider out of chocolate!

slice of Halloween Black Sesame Cake with marshmallow webs.

12. Black Sesame Cake

Three layers of black sesame cake frosted with black sesame buttercream and enrobed with orange colored marshmallow webs.

If you’ve never had black sesame desserts, it tastes similar to peanuts. It’s very toasty and nutty in flavor.

Death By Chocolate Cake topped with chocolate candies set on white serving plate.

13. Death by Chocolate Cake

A chocolate lover’s dream! Four layers of rich chocolate cake frosted with decadent chocolate buttercream and topped with melted chocolate.

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