Easy Halloween Donuts
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These easy Halloween donuts are the perfect festive and spooky fall treat! With their colorful glaze and fun spider web design, they’re an easy way to add some fun to your holiday!
Dress up a classic breakfast treat for scary season and make celebrating Halloween more fun than ever with these spooky Halloween donuts. These colorful donuts are an easy semi-homemade treat with a festive and impressive look that’s perfect for a party or a special breakfast.
You don’t even need to make the donuts from scratch. Just buy your favorite store-bought donuts and they’ll turn out just as good! Decorate with an easy vanilla frosting dyed in vibrant orange, purple, and black colors, then add a fun spider web design to make the perfect spider donuts.
These couldn’t be simpler or more perfect for a fun Halloween, so skip the baking and make these donuts when you’re looking for an easy and delicious way to create some spooky fun!
Why We Love This Recipe
Perfect for Halloween – The bright Halloween colors and fun decorations make this an eye catching and festive dessert for your Halloween party.
Easy – These are so fun and easy to make and there’s no baking required. Just swing by Krispy Kreme or your favorite donut shop and pick up a dozen glazed donuts. Then all you need to do is add the icing and decorations!
Versatile – When October rolls around, you’ll love making these Halloween-themed donuts for all your social events! They work as a dessert, a fun party treat, or a delicious holiday breakfast.
Ingredients
- Donuts, store-bought or premade
- Powdered sugar
- Milk
- Vanilla extract
- White vanilla melting wafers
- Black gel coloring
- Orange gel coloring
- Purple gel coloring
How to Make Halloween Donuts
Step 1: Whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk in a medium mixing bowl until smooth.
Step 2: Divide the sugar mixture evenly between 3 bowls. Add black gel coloring to the first bowl, whisking and adding more as needed, until you reach your desired shade.
Step 3: Repeat with the orange and the purple gel coloring in the other two bowls. If you want even more colors, you can make a fourth bowl with green icing.
Step 4: Line a cooling rack with a piece of parchment paper or foil underneath. Dip the top of a donut into the orange icing and let the excess drip off for a few seconds, then place it face up on the cooling rack.
Step 5: Repeat for all the donuts, alternating icing colors.
Step 6: Melt the melting wafers in a microwave safe bowl in 30 second increments, stirring well in between. Once melted, allow the candy a couple of minutes to cool.
Step 7: Place the candy in a piping bag and snip off the very tip. Use the candy to make spider webs, starting with the lines across and then connecting them with little waves.
Tips & Tricks
- Practice making your webs by tracing the first few with a toothpick before adding the candy.
- You can use Halloween sprinkles and candy eyes instead of adding the spider webs, if you prefer.
- Add a plastic or gummy spider on top of each doughnut for a cute and festive holiday touch.
More Spooky Halloween Ideas
- Monster Donuts – Use frosting to attach large candy eyes and add vampire teeth in the middle. You can also use the teeth to make Count Dracula!
- Mummy Donuts – Dip pastry in chocolate frosting, add candy eyes and drizzle with white icing.
- Ghost Donuts – Cover donut in white frosting, then make eyes and a screaming mouth with black or purple icing.
Store any leftover donuts at room temperature for 1-2 days. You can wrap them in plastic wrap or aluminum foil to help prevent them from drying out.
Either kind will work, and you can use plain or chocolate. Just avoid getting donuts that have any kind of coating like powdered sugar or cinnamon, since the icing may not stay on as well.
More Halloween Sweet Treats
Want more Halloween treats? These will be a hit at your next party!
- Halloween Dirt Pudding
- Candy Corn Cookie Bars
- Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
- Witch Hat Cookies
- Halloween Bark
Halloween Donuts
Equipment
- parchment paper optional
Ingredients
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 12 donuts store-bought or homemade
- Black gel coloring
- Orange gel coloring
- Purple gel coloring
- 10 ounces white candy melts
Instructions
- Whisk together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract in a medium mixing bowl until smooth.3 cups powdered sugar, ½ tsp. vanilla extract, ¼ cup milk
- Divide the sugar mixture evenly between 3 bowls. Add black gel coloring to the first bowl, whisking and adding more as needed, until you reach your desired shade.Black gel coloring
- Repeat with the orange and the purple gel coloring in the other two bowls. If you want even more colors, you can make a fourth bowl with green icing.Orange gel coloring, Purple gel coloring
- Line a cooling rack with a piece of parchment paper or foil underneath. Dip the top of a donut into the orange icing and let the excess drip off for a few seconds, then place it face up on the cooling rack.12 donuts
- Repeat for all the donuts, alternating icing colors.
- Melt the melting wafers in a microwave safe bowl in 30 second increments, stirring well in between. Once melted, allow the candy a couple of minutes to cool.10 ounces white candy melts
- Place the candy in a piping bag and snip off the very tip. Use the candy to make spider webs, starting with the lines across and then connecting them with little waves.
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Lisa O’Driscoll is a lifestyle and parenting expert, cookbook author, and the creative force behind Fun Money Mom, a popular blog she’s Lisa O’Driscoll is a lifestyle and parenting expert, cookbook author, and the creative force behind Fun Money Mom, a popular blog she’s run since 2014. She’s the author of the children’s cookbook Roll It, Slice It, Mash It, Dice It, designed to get kids excited about cooking. With multiple TV appearances under her belt, she loves sharing her expertise on family-friendly recipes, creative DIYs, and party planning and is always on a mission to inspire and entertain!
