18 vintage Halloween treats: Yummy homemade Halloween desserts you can still make today

Forget witches, ghosts and goblins. The real Halloween scare is having to provide treats for an at-school or at-home Halloween party! But there really is an easy answer: These cute and easy cupcake ideas!

Gooey Halloween treats: "Old-fashioned popcorn balls are always welcome in the trick or treat bags of marauding youngsters on Halloween, and busy housewives find that there are many new and different kinds of popcorn balls which lend variety to an old favorite."

Strikingly dark and chocolaty — deliciously moist, tender and light — this recipe [from 1941] will be welcomed by thousands of women who are eager to learn how to make a perfect black Devil’s Food.

It’s inexpensive, too. And you can mix it up in a jiffy. Snowy white icing makes a dazzling contrast.

Boy were we obsessed with pudding poke cakes in the 80s and 90s! And this spooky variation of the dessert — with an orange-vanilla pudding seeping into the dark, gooey chocolate brownies — is a Halloween treat so good, it’ll scare you.

Sure, you can just buy some Halloween Oreos with that seasonal orange filling to celebrate the creepy season, but you could also take it one step further and make extra-special Oreo Halloween ghost and graveyard treats with these creative, cute and haunting recipes straight from 1998.

Classic Halloween desserts: What is a pumpkin roll? Aside from being an amazing and enduring tradition, it’s a lightly-spiced pumpkin cake, jelly roll-style — filled with a sweet and fluffy cream cheese mixture. Is it even fall at all without it?

What's Halloween without quivers and chills? Jello Creepy Jigglers are creatures that move in the night, and disappear in the day.

And kids always love a ghoulish graveyard dessert — try this fun layered treat with gelatin, whipped topping and cookies!

This fair witch has scraggly hair made from rest of white fluffy frosting — sprinkled all over with snowy shredded coconut. Her hat is chocolate buttercream frosting, and candies make bewitching eye and mouth.

Whether she’s a glad witch or a mad witch is up to you!

Jiggly Halloween treats: Everyone will see fall favorites in a new light when you make these brilliant harvest treats with Jell-O brand gelatin. For Halloween, whip up a glittering pumpkin parfait. A sparking new way to serve grapes. Or a glowing harvest moon salad.

"You can't scream with your mouth full." Does anything else need to be said? This is ridiculously cute as Halloween treats go.

Two ever-popular treats come to mind on Halloween: caramel apples and caramel corn.

These favorites are far more nutritious than the candy bars and bubble gum typically dropped in little goblins’ bags of goodies, and the kids love to help make them. Here's how!

This is one big, delicious cookie. It’s also one wholesome cookie. Because it’s made with America’s favorite pumpkin, Libby’s.

Sure, kids love the chocolate chip freckles. But you’ll be baking real treats, made with plenty of pure, natural pumpkin and oatmeal.

Try out Libby’s Great Pumpkin Cookies on your favorite goblins. They’ll gobble them up before you can say boo!

These delicious pumpkin cookie bars are sort of like pumpkin bread, and have a delicous orange-flavored cream cheese frosting.

During the festive trick-or-treat season, Cynthia Bruce Kramer watches her sweet and spooky Halloween cookies fly off the shelves. Now you can get the same devilishly delicious results at home with this recipe for CBK Halloween cookies.

"What to serve unexpected ghosts? Why not this Pumpkin Patch Pie recipe for Halloween fun...

Just for Halloween: Make your kids yummy Treatwiches from Cool Whip – easy cookie sandwiches!

The perfect touch for a Halloween party: a confection of a centerpiece the kids can make. After the festivities, scoop out portions and wrap for take-home treats.

You’ll be the star of the party when you serve this Choc-O-Lantern Halloween cake. Bewitching and so delicious!