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September 30, 2015 33 Comments

Halloween Bat Treats

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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!

Easy 4-ingredient bat treats for Halloween

You were all warned about my Halloween obsession πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚EASY 4-INGREDIENT EDIBLE BAT TREATS FOR HALLOWEEN

How to make Halloween bat treats:

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Halloween Bat Treats
Prep Time
15 mins
Total Time
15 mins
 

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
Servings: 25 or more (just depends on how many you want to make!)
Ingredients
  • 25 Miniature Reeses Cups
  • 25 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
Instructions
  1. Remove the wrappers from the Reeses cups.
  2. 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!)
  3. 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.
  4. Press one cookie piece on the left of the Reeses cup and another cookie piece on the right of the Reeses cup.
  5. Pipe frosting on the back of the edible eyes and secure on top of the center of the Reeses cup.
  6. Enjoy!

4-ingredient Bat Halloween Treats

DIY PUMPKIN DECORATING IDEA

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.

Easy DIY Bat Halloween Party with treats and simple decorations

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! πŸ™‚

SIMPLE DIY BLACK BAT TREE CENTERPIECE

Put the these bat decorations together with the Halloween bat treats and some bowls of candy for the perfect Halloween table! πŸ™‚

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
EASY FOUR INGREDIENT HALLOWEEN TREAT - MINI BAT CANDY BITES
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  1. Danielle Delightful Mom Food says

    October 5, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    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
    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 5, 2015 at 10:27 pm

      You are so sweet!! Thank you Danielle!!

      Reply
  2. Thaila @ butter and brioche says

    October 5, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    I am obsessed with these bat chocolate bites. Though we don’t really celebrate Halloween here in Australia – I have to make them!!

    Reply
  3. Beverly says

    October 6, 2015 at 5:07 pm

    These Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite.
    Bev

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    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 8, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      You are so sweet, thank you! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  4. Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says

    October 14, 2015 at 10:16 am

    5 stars
    SO MUCH CUTE!!

    Reply
    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 14, 2015 at 11:36 am

      Thank you Kayle! πŸ™‚ xox

      Reply
  5. Merlaine Waldron says

    October 15, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    cute ideas! Where wOld I find edible eyes?

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    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 15, 2015 at 5:24 pm

      Thank you!!! I have bought edible eyes from craft stores (hobby lobby) and also from Walmart on their baking aisle by the sprinkles ☺️

      Reply
  6. Pauline Goodreau says

    October 24, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    5 stars
    Took these bats to our harvest supper last night. Made a big hit.

    Reply
    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 24, 2015 at 9:24 pm

      Oh that is so great to hear!! Thanks so much for coming and leaving a comment Pauline! πŸ™‚

      Reply
    • Luxe Calendar says

      January 17, 2019 at 7:05 am

      5 stars
      These Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite.

      Reply
  7. Susie says

    August 31, 2016 at 2:56 am

    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
    • chelseamessyapron says

      August 31, 2016 at 8:25 am

      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
  8. Shanna Sorenson says

    September 20, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    These look yummy and cute!

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    • chelseamessyapron says

      September 21, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      Thank you so much! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  9. Cindy deRosier says

    October 20, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    I’m the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your yummy bat treat! You can see it here:

    http://funfamilycrafts.com/mini-bat-treats/

    If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we’d love for you to submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can get one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a cool idea!

    Reply
    • chelseamessyapron says

      October 22, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      Thank you so much Cindy! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  10. Katie says

    November 6, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    4 stars
    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!! ???

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    • chelseamessyapron says

      November 18, 2017 at 10:29 am

      You’re welcome! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  11. Sia | Pocketoutdoor says

    January 23, 2019 at 3:30 am

    5 stars
    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
    • chelseamessyapron says

      January 28, 2019 at 5:40 pm

      Hahaha I couldn’t agree more! I’m so glad you enjoyed! Thanks! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  12. Samy Singh says

    February 19, 2019 at 3:15 am

    such creative ideas, loved Mini Chocolate Bat Bites, thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  13. Memorial Day Pics says

    May 21, 2019 at 8:42 am

    Thanks for sharing this information!

    Reply
    • chelseamessyapron says

      May 21, 2019 at 9:45 am

      You’re so welcome! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  14. Radhika says

    June 25, 2019 at 2:50 am

    Helloween is the most important event in my life.

    Reply
  15. Payal says

    June 25, 2019 at 2:54 am

    Thanks for sharing this information.

    Reply
    • Chelsea Lords says

      June 25, 2019 at 8:55 am

      You’re so welcome! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  16. August Calendar says

    July 11, 2019 at 7:40 am

    5 stars
    Nice Article.

    Reply
    • Olivia Mendenhall says

      July 15, 2019 at 9:27 am

      Thanks so much! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  17. Dulci Josh says

    July 19, 2019 at 11:46 pm

    5 stars
    Awesome article. thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Chelsea Lords says

      July 22, 2019 at 9:49 am

      Thanks!

      Reply
  18. Thanksgiving says

    September 12, 2019 at 6:54 am

    5 stars
    Happy Thanksgiving 2019 to all of you

    Reply

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