Home > Holidays > Halloween Bat Treats Halloween Bat Treats September 30, 2015 | 35 Comments SAVE TO RECIPE BOX Jump to Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. These easy Halloween bat treats require only 4 ingredients: edible eye candies, chocolate sandwich cookies, mini reeses cups, and frosting to get everything adhered! More Halloween fun: try these Halloween cupcakes, these Halloween donuts, or this post of 5 Halloween treats! You were all warned about my Halloween obsession 🙂 And so it continues with these Halloween bat treats. These treats are only 4 ingredients and the assembly takes mere minutes. They are so cute and such a festive treat to make this Halloween! Last year I made some healthy bat treats which inspired these ones. Both Halloween bat treats are quick and easy to make. Plus we’re transforming a pretty creepy animal to look so much, well, less creepy 🙂 How to make Halloween bat treats: FOLLOW ALONG! Subscribe to my newsletter and follow along on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram for the latest updates, recipes and content. Halloween Bat Treats 4.93 from 14 votes - Review this recipe These easy Halloween bat treats require only 4 ingredients: edible eye candies, chocolate sandwich cookies, mini reeses cups, and frosting to get everything adhered! SAVE TO RECIPE BOX Print Recipe Halloween Bat Treats 4.93 from 14 votes - Review this recipe SAVE TO RECIPE BOX Print Recipe These easy Halloween bat treats require only 4 ingredients: edible eye candies, chocolate sandwich cookies, mini reeses cups, and frosting to get everything adhered! Course Dessert Cuisine American Keyword Halloween bat treats Prep Time 15 minutes Total Time 15 minutes Servings 25 or more (just depends on how many you want to make!) Ingredients25 Miniature Reeses Cups25 Thin Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies (plan on having extra in case some don't break nicely)1/3 cup Pre-made cream cheese frosting (or homemade)50 Edible eyes InstructionsRemove the wrappers from the Reeses cups.Break the cookies in half and then separate all of the pieces from one another so you now have four "bat wings". Scrape off the frosting and discard (or eat!)Fill up a plastic bag with the store bought or homemade frosting. Cut off the tip of the bag and pipe frosting onto the back corners of the broken cookie pieces.Press one cookie piece on the left of the Reeses cup and another cookie piece on the right of the Reeses cup.Pipe frosting on the back of the edible eyes and secure on top of the center of the Reeses cup.Enjoy! DID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE? I love hearing from you when you've made one of my recipes! Tag me on Instagram at @ChelseasMessyApron or leave me a comment below. Next up, a “Bat Pumpkin” My 2-year old went nuts over this project. He manned the Cricut machine and cut out every single bat you see here. He loved pressing the buttons! After cutting out about 10-15 bats, he didn’t need any help knowing what to press to continue cutting them out. If you don’t have a cricut, these bats can be hand-cut out using these templates (<–click to get to a pre-made template). But if you do have a cricut or similar machine, it will go a bit faster. Supplies: Bat cricut cut-out or template (link above) + scissors Black construction paper Miniature clothespins, optional Varying sized goggly eyeballs (<–I bought a mega-pack that had 5 different sizes for about 5-6$) Hot Glue Gun + Glue Large Pumpkin To Assemble: Cut out lots of black bats in varying sizes. If you use the templates and scissors to cut out your bats, you may have to google search a few more templates to get all the different sizes that you want. Once the bats are cut out, hot glue on the eyeballs. Then use the hot glue gun to attach the bats to the pumpkin. (I did the larger bats on one side of the pumpkin and the size of the bats decreased across the width of the pumpkin.) The miniature clothespins can be hot glued to the back of some of the bats to give different “heights” to the bats. This is optional, but gives the pumpkin a little bit more dimension. If you want, you could even hot glue the Halloween bat treats to the pumpkin (they’d no longer be edible) for a more 3D presentation. This is great if you’re unable to get paper supplies or cut the bats how you’d like. Okay and finally we are to the third Halloween bat decoration for your ultimate Bat Halloween party: A DIY Creepy Bat Tree Supplies: Wooden bucket or vase or pot Styrofoam block Branches (you can find branches at a craft store; I just found the ones I used outside) Brown packing paper or newspaper Brown moss Black construction pape Varying sized googly eyeballs (<–I bought a mega-pack that had 5 different sizes for about 5-6$) Miniature Clothespins Hot glue gun + glue sticks To Assemble: Using the black construction paper and a cricut, cut out lots of black bats in varying sizes. If you use templates and scissors to cut out your bats, you may have to google search a few more templates to get all the different sizes that you want. Hot glue on eyeballs on the bats. Cut the foam block to fit inside your vase or pot and hot glue to the bottom. Insert your branches into the foam block. Pack everything in with brown packing paper (or newspaper). Hot glue gun the moss to the paper. Hot glue the bats to the branches. To get some of the bats to go a certain way you may need to use the clothespins. Hot glue the clothespins to the back of the bats and then attach to the branches. Place a plate of Halloween bat treats right by this creepy bat tree so it looks like the bats have flown down! 🙂 Put the these bat decorations together with the Halloween bat treats and some bowls of candy for the perfect Halloween table! 🙂 More fun Halloween ideas Easy Mummy Cookies Homemade Halloween Marshmallows Cookie Cup Ghosts Mummy Cookies More Halloween bat treats 5-Ingredient Halloween Oreo Truffles Halloween Oreo Pops
Chelsea, these are all so cute! Funny, I was just on Foodgawker and saw the picture of the Oreo bat wings and instantly knew it was your photo before looking at who posted! Gorgeous and fun! Reply
I am obsessed with these bat chocolate bites. Though we don’t really celebrate Halloween here in Australia – I have to make them!! Reply
These Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite. Bev Reply
Thank you!!! I have bought edible eyes from craft stores (hobby lobby) and also from Walmart on their baking aisle by the sprinkles ☺️ Reply
These Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite. Reply
Here is my problem….. I would love to have my grand daughter help make the Bats made with the peanut butter cups. But they can’t be used because of possible peanut allergies…. any suggestions for a substitute? Reply
You can make your own “peanut butter cup” base and instead of putting in peanut butter you could use something like cookie butter. Here’s a recipe if you want to try that out: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/cookie-butter-crunch-cups/ Enjoy! Reply
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4 start only because the cookies were slightly difficult to cut. I wanted the wings slightly smaller than the instructions say, which is to cut them in half. My husband ended up cutting/sawing out a little in the middle. I also used left over melted white chocolate, from chocolate covered strawberries, to “glue” the wings and eyes on my bats. Would totally make them again! Huge hit for church refreshments!! Thank you for the super cute idea!! ??? Reply
The mini bat treats are amazing. I made these last year but cut the biscuits using knife. They did not look as appealing as yours. Seems like imperfection is what makes it perfect. Reply
Love this idea!! Making for our Halloween party, do you think mini marshmallows (with food color marker pupils 🙂 ) would work instead of the candy eyes?? Can’t wait to see the kids reaction to these!! Reply
