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Haunted Cookie Houses

October 20, 2018 This post may contain affiliate links.

Have fun decorating these Haunted Cookie Houses for Halloween using royal icing, sprinkles, and candies. Make each house as cute or creepy as you like.

haunted cookie houses made using chocolate cookie dough decorated with bloody bones and skulls, or spider webs and spiders, or candy corn and orange, yellow, and white polka dots

Haunted Cookie Houses

When I was asked to create some Haunted Cookie Houses for Dixie Crystals, I was a bit nervous. I had only ever made a gingerbread house from a kit and was worried I’d have a difficult time creating a house that would stand up.

To make things a bit easier on myself I decided to try my hand at making a few small houses instead of one large house. I figured it would be easier to put the walls up on a small house.

I’m so glad I did. I found these cookie houses to be so easy to assemble and decorate.

six different Halloween cookie house designs - bloody bones, polka dots, bugs, spider webs, bats, and skulls

Halloween Cookie Houses

I started by creating a gingerbread house template which you can find here.

The template made really cool looking little houses for Halloween. I used my favorite chocolate cookie dough because it doesn’t spread much at all and went about building my houses.

The really fun part is decorating them. I made six different Haunted Cookie House designs and would have enjoyed making even more. You can get as creative as you like or use my designs as a guide.

Watch this video to see how you can make your own Haunted Cookie Houses…

 

You can find the recipe and tutorial for these Halloween cookie houses on the Dixie Crystals website.

To make each house I used:

Spider Web House:

  • royal icing spider webs
  • spider sprinkles

Bug House:

  • royal icing spider webs
  • bug sprinkles

Candy Corn House:

  • candy corn
  • confetti (round) sprinkles in orange, yellow, and white
  • white royal icing trim
  • candy clay jack-o-lantern (I made this using a jack-o-lantern plunger cutter)

Bat House:

  • orange and black nonpareils (roof)
  • purple and orange confetti sprinkles
  • royal icing cat and jack-o-lantern (found at Walmart)
  • bat sprinkles
  • orange royal icing

Bloody Bones House:

  • bloody bone sprinkles
  • skull sprinkles
  • red royal icing mixed with a small amount of red gel icing
  • tombstone candies

Skull House:

  • lots of skull sprinkles
  • jumbo purple confetti sprinkles

You can find these decorating supplies on amazon (commission earned for sales)

 

You can also use the same chocolate cookie dough recipe or a vanilla cookie dough recipe to make these fun Halloween cookies.

These wickedly cute Candy filled Black Cat Cookies will make the purrfect Halloween treat. See the tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Candy Filled Black Cat Cookies
These cookies can be filled with your favorite candies and are decorated with candy whiskers, eyes, and a cute heart shaped nose.

This Halloween you don't have to serve just cookies or just candy, these Candy Filled Cauldron Cookies combine them both. See the tutorial at HungryHappenings.com.

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Fill these with spider, bone, skull, and eyeball sprinkles for a creepy effect.

Crack open one of these bewitchingly cute Halloween treats to find candy hiding inside. You can make these Candy Filled Witch Cookies cute or Kooky. See how at Hungry Happenings.

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Break open these adorable witch cookies to find a tasty treat hiding inside.

Find over 100 cute and creepy Halloween treats and snacks. Follow the Halloween recipes step-by-step & video tutorials to recreate the most amazing Halloween cupcakes, cookies, rice krispie treats, chocolates, candies, appetizers, and more. Kids of all ages will go nuts over these fun Halloween food ideas .

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Filed Under: Decorated Cookies, Halloween Recipes Tagged With: Chocolate, Cookies

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  1. bev

    December 17, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    going to use this to make Christmas houses, but your recipe doesn’t say what temp to bake at – I’m assuming 350? Thx! 🙂

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 17, 2019 at 6:32 pm

      Oops! Yes, bake the cookies at 350 degrees. Have fun making your Christmas houses!

      Reply
  2. lisa@hooplapalooza

    October 21, 2018 at 8:01 pm

    oh these absolutely spooktacularly bootiful!!! :>D

    Reply
  3. Sharon Perry

    October 21, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    I really want to make these, but I am unable to save template to my computer. When I save it, I get a message that the page can’t be found? These are just sooooooooo cute!

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 22, 2018 at 2:13 am

      Sharon, I will try to send the template to you via email.

      Reply
  4. The Partiologist

    October 21, 2018 at 8:31 am

    Those little haunted houses turned out fantastic, looks like so much fun!

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 21, 2018 at 11:06 am

      Thanks! They were really fun to make and decorate.

      Reply
  5. Mickey H.

    October 20, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    These are so cute and they could be made for ANY holiday or special occasion! I love seeing all the wonderful things you come up with!

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 21, 2018 at 11:08 am

      Thanks Mickey! It was so fun creating Halloween cookie houses. I could definitely see doing them for Easter or other holidays too. I’m so glad you are enjoying my projects.

      Reply

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