The Halloween desserts continue to trickle in on TikTok, and some bakers are getting creative with a holiday classic: Pillsbury's Halloween sugar cookies. As quintessential Halloween snacks for many '90s and 2000s kids, the treats are known to disappear off shelves almost as soon as they arrive every fall. For those with nostalgic ties to the cookies, it's hard to imagine making the spooky treat even better. Thanks to TikTok and Instagram, though, we dug up six easy Halloween dessert recipes that have us rethinking the way we've been eating the cookies our whole lives.
In addition to their adorable designs — most notably, the bright orange-and-green pumpkins and the purple ghosts — the cookies are known for their soft texture and sweet, buttery taste. Though they're delicious on their own or dipped in a glass of milk, adding frosting, cake batter, and even brownie batter takes the cookies to another level. Some at-home bakers have even gone so far as to create Frankenstein desserts, including cinnamon rolls topped with Halloween sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies layered with the festive snack.
From creamy sugar cookie cheesecake to spooky ice cream sandwiches, there's definitely more than one way to enjoy this classic Halloween dessert. While some recipes require a little bit of mixing and chilling, others are fairly effortless. Plus, the Pillsbury packaging is marked with a label that indicates the sugar cookie dough is safe to eat raw. This means, even if you don't have time to preheat your oven, you can still savor in the nostalgia of the sweet treats this Halloween.
Whether you're looking for a recipe to try out with your family or a quick Halloween dessert to whip up in between scary-movie marathons, you'll want to keep your fridge stocked with these ready-to-bake cookies all season long.
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Even as a chill begins to pick up in the air, there's never a wrong time to eat ice cream. In fact, many TikTok users are combining summer and fall in the form of spooky ice cream sandwiches using the Pillsbury Halloween cookies as a base.
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Graham cracker crusts are a cheesecake classic, but a sugar cookie crust might be our new favorite, thanks to these pumpkin Halloween cookies. Maddison Koutrouba, The Squeaky Mixer on Instagram, created a recipe for a sugar cookie cheesecake using the ready-to-bake Pillsbury cookies as a base. While the cookies themselves do have to be baked for a few minutes, the filling is no-bake, making it an easy treat to serve at your next Halloween party.
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If you like to try a little bit of everything at the dessert table, you might be baking up a batch of these layered, chocolate chip Franken-cookies sooner than you think. With no mixing or chilling required, this cookie-stuffed recipe, shared by Natalie Camila, is easy to make with the whole family and is guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth.
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Similar to the layered cookies, this recipe combines Pillsbury Halloween cookies with a classic fall dessert: cinnamon rolls. Warm, gooey, and packed with flavor, these Halloween cookie cinnamon rolls are an innovative and easy treat to serve after a long night of trick-or-treating or during a spooky dinner party.
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If a whole cake sounds like a lot to bake, you can also make Pillsbury sugar cookie cupcakes using spooky ghost cookies or cute pumpkin cookies. The Squeaky Mixer's recipe combines chocolate cake batter with purple frosting for a finished treat that's way better than Halloween candy.
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For anyone with an extra sweet tooth for chocolate, this recipe for sugar cookie brookies, shared by TikTok user Halie Amos, is a must try for fall. A cross between brownies and cookies, the Halloween-inspired treat uses premade brownie mix and Pillsbury Halloween sugar cookies to create a dessert that's sure to disappear as soon as it's out of the oven.
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