Did you get a frightful request to make something for an upcoming bake sale for your child’s school, club or Scout troop? These horribly hair-raising Halloween bake sale recipes are all fun and easy to make.

What a clever idea to create gingerbread skeletons! Use gingerbread people cookie cutters and some simple white icing to create a skeleton effect.

Taste of Home also created skeleton witch’s cats which look fantastic for the season.

These super Easy Malteser Spider Halloween Cookies for Kids by Irish Baking Adventures cook in 15 mins, and even young kids can help with the decoration because tiny hands are perfect for this!

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Cake Pops are perfect for any Halloween bake sale, Mommy’s Fabulous Finds has a good recipe to follow and you can enjoy making pumpkin heads, Frankensteins or Jack Skellingtons.

A great way to use up pumpkin flesh that you have scooped out for making your Halloween Lanterns. We often think of savoury dishes for pumpkin, but its sweetness lends itself perfectly to sweet treats too.

These delicious pumpkin scones travel well for bake sales and can be served with cream or butter.

Perfect for younger Halloween fans, these fun monster cookies from Tell Love and Party are bright and colourful.

Using a simple sugar cookies recipe and a round cookie cutter, the excitement here comes from coloured icing and hilarious monster faces!

For a savoury bake, try these sizzling sausage mummies, they are super easy to make and will also counteract all the sweet treats the kids will be hounding you for.

Pastry, sausage and some creepy eyes to mummify them – job done!

Not really a bake but make Halloween themed chocolate goodies to put in little baggies for your bake sale. Melt dark, milk and white chocolate and pour into Halloween shaped moulds to make Halloween Chocolate Treats.

Halloween themed chocolate moulds available on Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.