Easy Halloween Macaron Ideas For Spooky Treats

Easy Halloween Macaron Ideas

It's funny. Every year the French become a little more accustomed to Hallowe'en. When I arrived here in 1992, it was a total non-event, but gradually the autumn shop windows around Paris have become decidedly more spooky.

The good news is that you don't need to make complicated macaron art. In fact, some of my favourite Halloween macarons here are the simplest - and even a few cracked shells can be put to very good use!

Don't be scared of making your own macarons, either. If you're new to them, start with my Beginner French Macaron Recipe for the full French meringue method or heat to my French Macaron Guide for more recipes, fillings and troubleshooting.

1. Cracked Halloween Macarons with Raspberry Scars

Cracked macarons are normally a baker's nightmare - which makes them rather perfect for Halloween. So don't throw them away!

Rub a little freeze-dried raspberry powder directly into the cracks with your fingertip. The powder catches in the fissures and immediately makes them look like rather gruesome scars - with no red food colouring needed.

Add one or two edible candy eyes and suddenly an imperfect macaron looks completely intentional.

I filled mine with a deep raspberry filling from my new forthcoming macaron e-book, which gives an extra blood-red glimpse between the shells. Deliciously horrible!

And if you'd rather discover why your macarons cracked in the first place, you'll find the most common causes and quick fixes in my French Macaron Guide.

2. Skeleton and Scream Face Halloween Macarons

These look much more complicated than they are.

Instead of piping a round shell, make a slightly oblong macaron. Think of piping half a heart: press down on the piping bag, then taper away at the end in one simple movement.

Once baked and filled, draw on skeleton, ghost or Scream-style faces.

I used melted dark chocolate and a toothpick, drawing them freehand. There's no need to be artistic - in fact, the slightly wonky faces are half the fun.

If you prefer, a black edible food pen also works well. Years ago, that was how I decorated most Halloween macarons, but these days I like using simple melted chocolate instead.

My original inspiration came from some wonderfully polished skeleton-face macarons I spotted at Fortnum & Mason in London. The UK still does Halloween rather better than Paris!

Add a Little Halloween Sparkle

Brush on some edible glitter (lustre) over the shells for a more dramatic finish. Bronze, deep pink or berry shades look particularly good on salted caramel, raspberry macarons, and chocolate macarons.

3. Mummy Macarons

These may be the easiest Halloween macarons of all.

Melt a little white chocolate, then drizzle it backwards and forwards over a filled macaron to make the mummy's bandages.

Before the chocolate sets, add two edible eyes. That's it.

No elaborate piping and no fiddly marzipan strips (I did this on my witch's hat below). The messier the white chocolate, the better the mummy looks.

Make your Own Edible Eyes

You can buy ready-made candy eyes, but it's also ridiculously easy to make your own.

Pick out the white Smarties from a packet and add a tiny dot of melted dark chocolate in the centre for the pupil.

Stick them on to your macaron with another little dab of melted chocolate.

Use different sizes or position the pupils slightly crookedly. A one-eyed monster works particularly well too - and don't worry if the chocolate 'glue' shows. It can make them look like black eyes!

More Halloween Macaron Faces

I'm not much of an artist but if you are, then I'm sure you can do more elaborate Hallowe'en decorations on your macarons. Using edible food ink pens, draw on pumpkin lantern faces, a ghost face, write the words, 'Boo', and so on.

5. Pumpkin Spice Macarons for Autumn

Halloween isn't only about spooky decorations. Pumpkin Spice Macarons are perfect for the whole autumn or fall season, from October right through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Mine contain actual roasted pumpkin - or use pumpkin purée - rather than simply adding pumpkin spice to a plain filling. The white chocolate ganache has no extra sugar added, which helps balance the naturally sweet macaron shells.

And, of course, there are those warm autumn spices.

If you've been carving pumpkins, you'll also find plenty more inspiration on my French market pumpkin page.

7. Halloween Macaron Ideas to Die For

Those Halloween macarons have an element of the unexpected inside - perfect for anyone who prefers the trick and the treat.

Add Some Surprising Spice

One of the strangest (and still one of my favourite) combinations is pistachio, coconut and wasabi - and you'll find this in my forthcoming new macaron book in November 2026.

Yes, wasabi. The inspiration came after tasting a dessert by Michelin-starred chef William Ledeuil. The wasabi gives the ganache an intriguing little kick, while white chocolate, coconut, vanilla and pistachio soften the heat.

You taste the surprise rather than a mouthful of fire.

8. Savoury Macarons: Witch One?

Mini savoury macarons are brilliant for Halloween parties too - especially because nobody expects them to be savoury.

Think mushroom and truffle, cheese, herbs or something with a little spice. You'll find a selection of my favourite savoury macaron fillings in my forthcoming macaron e-book, alongside the sweet recipes. I'm excited to have completely updated these beetroot and horseradish macarons - with some surprises! Serve them with a chorizo risotto, for example.

More French Macaron Ideas

Which would you make first: the raspberry-scarred monsters, the mummies, the Scream faces or pumpkin spice?

If you make one of these Halloween ideas, leave me a comment below and tell me which one you chose and who you served them to. It also helps me see which macaron ideas you'd like more of here.