Easy Halloween Treats with 4 ingredients or less: Monster Eyeballs, Witch’s Hats, Witch’s Brooms, and Bat Bites. Simple, tasty, no baking needed.
Easy Halloween Treats
Get ready for Halloween with these super simple treats!
These festive snacks are cute, fun, and quick to make with just four ingredients or less.
Serve up Monster Eyeballs that stare right back, Witch’s Hats that are hard to resist, and Witch’s Brooms perfect for any Halloween witch-in-training. Don’t forget the Bat Bites—they’re sure to be a hit!
So let’s get started — these easy and fun recipes are sure to be the highlight of your Halloween party!
Easy Halloween Treats Ingredient Breakdown
Here’s a rundown of all the ingredients for these treats, along with handy hints for each:
- Oreo Thins Cookies: Use the chocolate-crème variety for a sleek look for witch hats and bat wings. For bat bites, stick to the THIN Oreos; regular ones are too heavy for Reese’s cups.
- Cream Cheese Frosting: Homemade is best for rich flavor, but store-bought from the bakery section is fine too. Regular tub varieties work as well.
- White Chocolate: Choose a high-quality brand for the best melt and taste.
- Chocolate Candy Kisses: Try “Hugs” for a fun twist on witch hats.
- Food Coloring: Gel-based colors give the brightest, vivid results.
- Halloween Sprinkles: Look for seasonal sprinkles in stores or online.
- Reese’s Miniature Cups: Use a fresh pack to avoid cracking. Chill them before use to keep them firm.
- Pretzel Sticks and Pretzel Twists: Use twists for monster eyes and miniature sticks for witch’s brooms.
- Pull-Apart Twizzlers: Fresh packs are best for soft and pliable Twizzlers.
- Rolos: Use fresh Rolos to avoid crumbling when baked.
- M&M’s Candies: Seasonal packs are great, but regular ones work too; sort by color if needed.
- Edible Candy Eyeballs: Choose miniature for bats and larger ones for monster eyeballs. An assorted size pack works well for various treats.
Quick Tip
Looking for edible eyes? Check the baking aisle at local grocery stores or craft stores like Hobby Lobby and JoAnn’s. Online shopping is also a great option.
Tips For Success
- Preparation: Set out all ingredients before you start to quickly assemble each treat.
- Chilling: If candies get melty, chill easy halloween treats in the fridge.
- Piping: Use a zipper-top plastic bag with a tiny cut in the corner if you don’t have a piping bag.
- Handling Oreos: Gently separate Oreos for Bat Bites using a table knife to avoid crumbling.
- Monitor the Oven: Watch Rolos closely when softening on pretzels—aim to soften, not melt.
- Assembly Line: For large batches, lay out all Oreos and do all piping, adding kisses, and sprinkling in one go for efficiency.
- Get the Kids Involved: Kids can help with unwrapping, sprinkling, and placing candies.
Fun Presentation Ideas
- Spooky Platters: Use platters covered with fake spider webs. Place treats on parchment paper or in cupcake liners.
- Edible Graveyard: Crumbled chocolate cookies as “dirt,” with Witch’s Hats and gummy worms for a creepy touch.
- Haunted Cupcake Stand: Decorate a cupcake stand with orange and black ribbons, spider webs, or Halloween stickers. Place treats on parchment paper or in cupcake liners.
- Cauldron Bowls: Serve treats in small cauldrons with green cotton candy at the base to mimic a witch’s potion.
- Glowing Display: Line a tray with white parchment paper and use small LED lights underneath for a mysterious glow.
- Mummy Wrap: Wrap easy Halloween treats in small boxes with white streamers and add googly eyes.
- Candy Corn Layers: Layer candy corn in a clear glass bowl and place treats on top for a festive look.
Variations
Get creative! Try different Oreo flavors, frosting, sprinkles, candy, or add Halloween-themed decorations like candy spiders.
More Easy Halloween Treats:
- Printable Halloween Treat Bag Toppers with free printables!
- Mummy Bark or Mummy Cookies using white chocolate
- Ghost Cookies using store-bought sugar cookie dough
- Halloween Cupcakes lots of fun ideas for how to decorate festive cupcakes
- Halloween Rice Krispie Treats with lots of decorating ideas!
Easy Halloween Treats
Whip up spooky fun with these Easy Halloween Treats! With 4 ingredients or less, make Monster Eyeballs, Witch's Hats, Witch's Brooms, and Bat Bites—no baking required!
Equipment
- resealable plastic bags
- large sheet pan,
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
Witch's Hats
- Oreo THINS cookies
- Homemade cream cheese frosting or store-bought
- Chocolate candy kisses
- Food coloring I use green and orange
- Halloween sprinkles optional
Witch's Brooms
- Reese’s Miniature Cups unwrapped
- Pretzel sticks
- Pull-apart Twizzlers
Bat Bites
- Reese’s Miniature Cups unwrapped
- Oreo THINS cookies make sure to get the THINS
- 3 tablespoons white chocolate chips
- Candy eyeballs
Monster Eyes
- Pretzel snaps or twists not straight pretzels
- Rolos unwrapped
- M&M’s in Halloween colors
- Large candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Witch's Hats: Divide frosting into two bowls. Dye one bowl green and the other orange. Transfer each colored frosting to separate resealable plastic bags. Remove air, seal, and snip off a corner. Pipe a generous dollop of frosting in the middle of each Oreo cookie. Gently press an unwrapped chocolate kiss into the frosting. Optionally, add sprinkles around the frosting base.
- Witch's Brooms: Turn Reese’s Cups upside down. Push a pretzel stick into the center of each cup. Pull apart Twizzlers and cut each strand into thirds. Wrap one piece around the pretzel where it meets the Reese's cup, secure, and trim the excess.
- Bat Bites: Unwrap each Reese’s Cup. Separate Oreo cookies and scrape off the cream. Break each Oreo in half to form bat wings (be patient here; a lot will break!) Melt white chocolate chips in the microwave in bursts of 25 seconds, stirring between each burst until melted and smooth. Transfer to a resealable plastic bag, snip off a corner, and pipe small dots on the Reese’s for the bat wings. Attach one Oreo half to each side of the Reese’s Cup to resemble wings. Pipe a small amount of chocolate below the wings and secure candy eyeballs to the Reese’s Cup.
- Monster Eyes: Preheat oven to 250°F. Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper. Arrange pretzels on the sheet and place an unwrapped Rolo on each. Bake for 2–4 minutes, or until the chocolates are soft but not melted. Immediately after removing from the oven, press M&M’s and large edible eyeballs into the Rolos. Let candies set at room temperature or in the fridge for about an hour or until the chocolate hardens.
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Recipe Notes
Oreo THINS cookies: Stick to the THIN Oreos; their thicker counterparts are a bit too heavy for the Reese’s cups.
Reese’s Miniature Cups: A quick tip: Chill these in the fridge prior to use to keep them firm and prevent melting or smudging during assembly.
Edible candy eyeballs: Size matters. Aim for miniature eyes for bats and the larger variety for monster eyeballs. This assorted size pack is perfect when making multiple of these easy Halloween Treats!
Nutrition Note: Nutrition information is not provided because of the wide variance of ingredients and quantities.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
OMG I loved all your recipes, creative, fun and easy! Thanks Messy apron ♥️ it!
If it’s not messy, It’s not tasty!
Thank you!!
Just sent all of these treats to each of my granddaughters. I know they will love making them. I’m hoping for a treat or two.
I hope you get a few too! 🙂
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These are so cute! I love this for Halloween!
Thank you!
I LOVE all of your ideas but where I live there is No Target or anything close to it. We feel very blessed to have a Walmart and one grocery store, Krogers, so where or what web sight can I try and find the eatable eyeballs. Thank u SOOO very much!
Thank you! I’ve found edible eyes at Wal-mart on their baking aisle (near sprinkles/cake mixes/frosting). You can also get them on Amazon 🙂 https://www.amazon.com/Wilton-Candy-Eyeballs-0-88-Count/dp/B005BPU1P8
For the Witch’s Brooms, how do you get the pretzels in the Reese’s without it squishing it?
I’ve just pushed them in slowly and gently and never had a problem! In thinking why you might be having problems, if the mini Reese’s are exceptionally cold (cold home or out of a cold car?) that could make them harder. But at room temperature they go in really easy!
OK, I figured out the pretzel sticks I bought were too thick. I bought the thin ones and they worked so much better. I also added a dab of the colored frosting to the hole then pushed the pretzel in so it made a colorful top instead of the licorice you used.
Thanks for the help!
Why couldn’t you use a mini chocolate chip for black?
You definitely can if you’d like 🙂
Hello! I absolutely love these ideas!! Do you have a suggestion for a good look-a-like substitute for the Reese Peanut butter cups for kids like mine with severe nut allergies?
Hi Deva! Thank you so much 🙂 You could check your local grocery store on the candy aisle for any lookalikes, or you could try making your own “peanut butter cups” with a different filling (eggless cookie dough, frosting, sunbutter filling, caramel, etc.)!
I LOVE these!!!! Just saw them on Foodgawker and adored 🙂 Your photos are gorgeous as well! Thanks for making my evening brighter 🙂 My son has been wearing his Halloween costume for two days now! Ha! He is ready!! 🙂
Awe Jen, you are so sweet! Thank you so much for this kind comment 🙂 Haha I love that your son is already wearing his Halloween costume 🙂 Too fun!
These are just TOO precious Chelsea!! Love them!
Awe thank you Jessica! 🙂