From Halloween cupcakes to Jack-o'-Lantern Tartlets, find recipes for some of our spookiest desserts.

A textural surprise in the center of this cake will have you wondering whether the plastic cockroach decorations are the real thing.

Don't be afraid of these friendly ghosts -- they are easy to make.

Innocents are snared easily by a ganache spider-web. Spun by a gumdrop spider with limber licorice-string legs, the web is draped over a dangerously addictive and creamy no-bake cheesecake.

Be sure to eat quickly; wicked witches have a habit of melting -- especially these.

Elegant little bites of cake get a spooky treatment in the guise of ghosts and witches' hats.

This grinning pumpkin is much sweeter than he is scary!

A ring of fire dances around a dense chocolate cake so decadent it was named for the devil himself.

Set atop a steep hill of devil's food cake, this forbidding cookie house features caramelized-sugar windows, black-licorice spires, and sunflower-seed shingles.

These construction-paper vampire bats don't have fangs, but make no mistake: They hope to suck the sweet and spicy filling out of this Boston "scream" pie, a pumpkin-chocolate cake that oozes chocolate glaze.

Ghouls and guests alike will flock to this chocolaty graveyard cake.

This creepy cake is covered in bleeding chocolate glaze and topped with espresso shortbread tombstones.

Orange nonpareils are a bright addition to rich, dark whoopie pies. 

Even the staunchest arachnophobes will find it hard to resist these adorable creepy-crawlies.

Carve creepy or cute faces into these citrus jack-o'-lanterns.

To score a bite of this sinfully sweet cake, you must first make it past a caramelized cobweb protected by licorice spiders.

Use dough cutouts to give pumpkin tartlets some friendly -- or fiendish -- character.

Halloween guests are sure to find this pumpkin cake eerily enchanting.

Ice cream cones are embellished with chocolate and gummy candy belts to make deviously delicious witches' hats.

Topped with chocolate ganache and studded with cherries, this cake is irresistible to all creatures, vampire or otherwise.

Beneath this ganache-covered cheesecake topped with a coiled serpent, lies a dessert hour full of surprises (and a chocolate crust).