Cadbury Halloween Desserts for Your Trick or Treat

It is that time of the year when you hear a knock on your door, you open it, and you see a spookily costumed kid saying “Trick-or-Treat.”

Yes, it is Halloween time. It is a Halloween ritual where Trick-or-Treat ideally means that if you don’t give a treat, the children might play a mischievous trick. Although in today’s time, the ‘trick’ is nothing but an idle threat.

And in today’s candy and sweet-oriented Halloween celebrations, what made chocolate candies, cookies, and other baked desserts popular is the rise of trick-or-treating. This practice originally evolved from the tradition of ‘souling’, a medieval practice where poor people used to go door-to-door on All Souls' Day seeking food (soul cake) in exchange for praying for the family's deceased members.

While candies are the most popular item for trick-or-treat, you may also consider cookies, cake pops, and similar confections to give away. From spooky peanut butter cup candies and meringue ghosts to white chocolate cherry skulls and googly eye cake pops, with Cadbury Halloween Desserts, options for trick-or-treat are endless.

1. Spooky Peanut Butter Cup Candies

These are one of the most popular trick-or-treat candies given to the kids on Halloween. These peanut butter cups are a candy that includes a round cup of chocolate with a delicious peanut butter filling. While usually made with milk chocolate and a smooth peanut butter filling, you may explore variations based on your preferences for different types of chocolate. Now, to add the spooky element to it, you can always go with some white chocolate icing and pipe some cute, scary ghosts on top of the candy once it is firm. Candies and cute ghosts go really well together during Halloween.

2. Halloween Chocolate Cookies

Whether homemade or store-bought, some chocolate chunk cookies can never fail you if you decorate them well to celebrate the spooky spirit of Halloween. Options for decorating the chocolate cookies are endless for you to choose from on Halloween. While the most common ones are pumpkin, spider, cute ghost, and witch hat-shaped cookies, you can also include monster cookies and several others in your trick-or-treat options.

3. Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies

People often wonder why pumpkins find so much prominence in Halloween celebrations. According to Irish folktales, pumpkins have the power to ward off evil spirits.

To make these delicious pumpkin spice sugar cookies for Halloween, you may follow a classic sugar cookie recipe and add some pure pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice to the dough to enhance the flavor profile. Using a cookie cutter, shape the dough into pumpkin-shaped cookies. Once baked, the cookies are decorated with orange and black icing to create spooky designs.

4. Meringue ghosts

As it is Halloween, who doesn’t love a cute little ghost made from meringue and sugar? This Halloween, just whip up a batch of these sugary, cute delicacies for the little ones. From decorating cakes to getting served as little ghosts alone, these simple yet popular Halloween treats are perfect to add more fun to your Halloween party. To make them, all you need to do is whip egg whites and sugar together to create a stiff, airy meringue. Only they are firm, they are piped into ghostly shapes and baked at a low temperature before they come out of the oven to scare you in cute little ways. The cute little ghosts will for sure give the kids a sweet, spooky surprise.

5. White Chocolate Cherry Skulls

Just imagine you are looking at a skull with glowing red eyes staring right into your soul. Scary? Come on. This is Halloween. And whatever scares you here, you can pretty much eat them. Here, the skull you see is made from white chocolate, while the red eyes are nothing but cherries. All you need is a silicone skull mold and these two ingredients to create that ultimate Halloween vibe with minimal effort.

6. Googly Eye Cake Pops

These Googly Eye Cake Pops are an ideal way to add more fun to your Halloween trick-or-treat. These cake pops (the cake version of lollipops) are a new-era dessert that turns traditional large cakes into smooth, round, bite-sized balls, dipped into a chocolate coating, and placed on sticks.

During Halloween, you can always opt for a spooky twist to the regular cake pops. For simple vanilla cake pops at home, you can use your favorite vanilla or white cake recipe. Or, even simpler, you can use a boxed cake mix. Once the cake is made, crumble it into fine pieces and combine them well with a frosting of your choice. Then, take handfuls of the mixture and shape them into balls. Once firm and smooth in texture, coat is nicely with finely crushed Oreo cookies and place googly candies on them to create the ghost eyes. So this year, when the kids wearing Halloween costumes knock on your door, make sure you also scare them a bit with these sweet delights.

7. Ghost Eye Truffles

Chocolate truffles are another great option for trick-or-treat. Kids love chocolate truffles for their smooth, decadent texture. These small, bite-sized delights can be given a spooky spin with some googly eyes on them. Just make a batch of Oreo-coated chocolate truffles first with a simple mixture of chocolate, cream, and butter, and then roll them into balls. The next part is coating them with some Halloween-themed sprinkles, drizzles, or other edible decorations. And finally, place those googly eye candies on them.