Halloween Blood Filled Coffin Pop Tarts + 1 Free Printable

Halloween blood filled coffin pop tarts are horrifically fun treats fashioned in the shape of a coffin for the season of gory and gross, requiring no mixing of dough, and are literally the fastest and easiest way to make a homemade Halloween treat for your family and friends will love!

As an added bonus, I’ve included a free Halloween coffin template printable that you can print and use to shape the coffin Halloween pastry dough.

Tucked inside the Halloween coffin pop tarts you’ll find a pocket of gory red blood entombed inside of a top layer of pastry that is then sealed tighter than a mummy in a coffin and purposely ‘sewn’ shut by crimping and the icing cobwebs topping the homemade Halloween tart pastries!

You can indeed make your own Halloween pop tarts with a few simple ingredients and about 15 minutes!

Now, why would coffins ooze blood?

Perhaps the vampire that is living inside the coffin is sucking blood from a victim he captures, or he is bleeding out from overdosing on blood he has sucked out of people, and that makes a vampire coffin ooze blood, gross and ghoulish, right?

So now our job is to eat as many of these blood-filled coffins for Halloween as possible so that the vampire can not regenerate and come back out of that coffin to suck any more blood from anyone!

Why You’ll Love Vampire Coffins Oozing Blood Pop Tarts

I love it when we enter into the month of September as the ghoulish crazy begins. Food items suddenly become more tastelessly fun and over-the-top obnoxious, as well as let our inner devil child pave the path to creative gore (ok, so that describes me, but you are reading me, so you have to have a little of this in you too!)

Oddly enough, coffins are as Halloween as it gets; after all, the ghosts in the graveyard games and all of the Halloween discussions of haunted graveyards with tombs and coffins for Halloween are part of all that!

• the blood-filled pastry is a great Halloween breakfast idea for kids
• healthy homemade pop tarts are far better than those purchased with additives in the stores
• You don’t need to buy a coffin cookie cutter; you can download a free Halloween coffin template printable to use instead (I did) to make the vampire blood oozing coffee shape.
• you can and should make these fun Halloween pop tart coffins filled with red blood ahead of time
• the simple ingredients in the DIY bloody pop tart coffin treats are easy to find!
• Bloody coffin pop tarts are easy to transport on a festive Halloween tray!

From oddly frightful to oddly delightful, Halloween treats can be dressed up and laid out for others to see (you see what I did there?), so Halloween coffin-shaped pop tarts filled with blood fit the spirit of the season with a side of hocus pocus because the blood is really a red jam or jelly of preference!

What Tools Do You Need to Make Coffin-Shaped Pop Tarts Filled With Blood?

• either my free printable coffin template below that you can print and use or a coffin cookie cutter
• a pastry brush – will be used to brush the coffin pastries with red jam blood shut before topping with cinnamon sugar
• A small bowl is used to combine your sugar and cinnamon mixture that will be sprinkled on the sealed coffin
• a fork is used to crimp the edges of the DIY bloody pop tar coffin treats to keep them sealed during baking
• baking tray – the essential item needed to place the Halloween coffin pop tarts into the oven to bake
• parchment paper makes for an easier cleanup
• a knife if you are using a printable cutout
• spatula – will be used to transfer the dough from the countertop prep to the baking tray and off of the baking tray to the cooling rack
• the cooling rack is for the bloody filled coffins to cool off before you decorate them
• rolling pin – you’ll use this to roll the dough thin to get at least 5 homemade Halloween pop tarts out of the dough

I Used My Favorite Cookie Trays To Make My Vampire Coffins Oozing Blood Pop Tarts

While I don’t suggest many different products for baking in your kitchen essentials, I do have one simple suggestion for baking trays, as a baking pan can either make or break your cookies!

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Ingredients For Your Halloween Blood Filled Coffin Pop Tarts

• You can make your own pie crust, but that is a PIA for a quick dessert, so I suggest purchasing 1 box of refrigerated pie dough, yielding 10 coffin pop tarts with blood inside!
• a little bit of white flour, and in most cases, you won’t even need it
• jam or jelly in the color of blood…red
• cinnamon and sugar however, this is optional, but it tastes good!
• butter which will seal off the coffins before they bake

How To Make Halloween Blood Filled Coffin Pop Tarts

Simple directions follow for this easy-to-make pastry and you can change up the filling to any kind you prefer.

Step 1 Roll Out The Pie Dough Pastry To Cut Coffin Pop Tarts

You’ll roll the dough thinner than you might think it should be.

Step 2 Cut Out The Coffins Using A Coffin Cookie Cutter Or My Free Printable Coffin Template

Work from the left to the right or right to left, cutting out your coffins.

Do try to cut the side of the coffin by side to make the most of the pastry dough.

Transfer each coffin out of the pie dough using a spatula to the baking tray as you cut it out.

Step 3: When You Have Scrap Pastry Dough Cut More Coffins

When there is no more pastry dough available to cut another coffin, gather the leftover scraps and then roll the pastry dough again to cut out the last 2 coffin pastries.

My cutter is larger, so the dough will only provide 10 pieces total, creating 5 Halloween coffin pop tarts with blood-red filling.

Step 4: Fill the Coffin Pop Tarts With Blood

Using a fork, fill 5 of the 10 coffin cutouts, each with the blood jelly or jam, steering clear of the edges but filling the middle sections

Step 5: Seal the Coffin

Seal the coffin filled with blood by using a fork and crimping along the edges, and also stab an area of the filling to allow the steam to escape when baking!

Step 6: Brush With Butter And Sugary Topping

Using a pastry brush and melted butter, lightly brush each sealed bloody coffin with the butter and follow with a sprinkle of the combined sugar-cinnamon mixture.

Step 7: Bake the Halloween Coffin Poptarts

Pop the tray of DIY bloody pop tart coffin treats assembled, crimped, and brushed with butter and sugar into the oven to bake.

Step 8: Remove Baked Bloody Coffins From The Oven

Once they are a light golden brown, remove the coffins from the oven. The blood will somewhat ooze out the sides, so allow this to cool.

Step 9: Decorate Your Bloody Baked Coffins

Once cooled, it is time to decorate the Halloween Coffins with spiderwebs, and you do this by piping black or white icing on them, and making a cobweb.

Optionally you can add edible spiders.

If you don’t add edible spiders, you will want to decorate the table around the red bloody coffin pastries when you share them on a Halloween table to give them the look of enticing gore!

Coffin Cookie Cutters And My Free Coffin Printable Template

You don’t need to purchase a Coffin-shaped cookie cutter; you can use the free printable coffin cutter template I made for you.

Just print it, then cut it out and cut around the pastry dough to make the spooky coffin-shaped blood-filled pop tarts; it’s easy, and I used it too!

However, if you prefer to purchase coffin cookie cutters, here are a few options. I do suggest at least a 4.5″ cutter at a minimum because bite-size coffins are not easy to work with!

• A stainless steel coffin cookie cutter that comes as part of a set, but it is a bit small for what it is.
• plastic Coffin Cookie Cutters are also available
• this is a fair-sized coffin cookie cutter and fairly priced if you are an Amazon Prime member.

Pro Tips To Make Cleanup Easier From The Blood Oozing Out Of the Coffins

I suggest using parchment paper because you can bake on the paper, and when the vampire blood oozing coffin shares its blood on your baking tray, you can toss it out when you are done rather than scrubbing that mess!

While I state that this is a pro tip, I really think it is a pretty standard item in most kitchens, so there are no scary surprises here!

But do you know what scarier is?

Kids with hungry bellies keep saying, “mom, what is there to eat?” Time to bake! Creepily delish.

Other Creative Spooky Halloween Food Ideas

• salted caramel chocolate apple bites,
• Cob Web Eggs
• Skeleton Veggies
• Barfing Pumpkin And Chips
• Deviled Eggs
• Witch Cookies

Halloween Coffin Pop Tarts with Blood Red Filling

Try them, and tell us what you changed and didn’t change, and any other secrets we might have missed in sharing this easy-to-make Halloween treat that is a must-have party table!