6 Halloween Cookie Ideas, From Wide-Eyed Sandwiches to Lemon Monsters

A cookie plate can do plenty of Halloween work without every bite wearing the same face. Chocolate sandwiches peek across the icing, pale mummy ribbons brighten the plate, and a green-and-purple spiral brings the color without another pair of eyes.

Pick the baking or no-bake route you want, then open the creator's recipe for the ingredients and method. The caramel-apple cookie brings an autumn flavor rather than a spooky shape.

This is the substantial sandwich bite in the lineup, with the chocolate cookies and icing both part of its appeal. Choose it when you want the cookie itself to take up some room on the plate, rather than a small candy-centered treat.

A low-edged plate lets those eye-filled seams face the room. The joke lives at the side of the sandwich, so a tall stack would hide the best bit.

The pale bandages make this a useful visual partner for the darker chocolate sandwiches. An oval Vienna Finger gives the mummy a longer outline, while a round cookie keeps it compact.

Keep a little plate visible between the mummies so their individual shapes don't disappear into one white patch.

The wide wings change the outline of a plate full of round cookies. That makes the bat a good choice when the table needs a shape you can recognize at a glance. It is candy-centered, though, so don't choose it expecting an all-cookie bite.

Give the bats their own clear patch of tray instead of tucking their wings under neighboring cookies. Name the peanut-butter-cup component when describing the treats to guests, and check the creator's recipe and your chosen product labels for the actual ingredients.

Let a few spiral faces remain fully visible on the plate; the green-and-purple pattern is the decoration.

A pinwheel gives you an unmistakable pattern while leaving the cookie's surface free of a frosting face. Choose it for the person who likes Halloween color but would rather eat a sugar cookie than a candy-and-cookie construction.

Pick these when you want a citrus cookie among the chocolate and candy-centered choices. Lemon is part of their identity, so keep it in the name when planning the plate.

The crackled, sugar-dusted surface gives them a softer visual texture than the smooth mummy ribbons. A few colors can make a lively little group without turning every cookie into a different project.

These cookies carry apple juice and cinnamon in the dough as well as chopped green apple on top. They bring a different flavor from the chocolate sandwich or the citrus crinkle.

Give the topped cookies their own part of the serving plate rather than hiding their apple detail under a stack.