Halloween Donuts
I’m so excited to share this Halloween Donuts recipe. It’s really three recipes in one, since you can choose if you want spider webs, Frankenstein, or vampire donuts! These are perfect for a Halloween party or fun breakfast for Halloween morning. These cute Halloween donuts are going to be a huge hit for your little ghosts and goblins this year.
Why we love these recipes-
- We kept each of these so simple by using store-bought donuts. I do recommend using store brand donuts and not Krispie Kreme. While delicious, they are pretty fragile when you have to handle them. We want some donuts that can hold up to decorating. You could also use chocolate donuts!
- These are so much fun and SO FESTIVE. My boys went crazy over this fun treat.
- This would also be a FUN activity to do with your kids the weekend before Halloween to let them decorate their own sweet treat.
Halloween Donut Ingredients
Spider Web Donuts Ingredients
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ tsp. Vanilla extract
- 10 ounces white vanilla candy melts
- Black gel food coloring
- Orange gel food coloring
- Purple gel food coloring
- You’ll need a piping bag for piping the spider webs.
Frankenstein Donuts Ingredients
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Green gel food coloring
- 1 cup chocolate sprinkles
- 24 candy eyes- we used a set with multiple sizes
Vampire Donuts Ingredients
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 12 sets of vampire teeth
- 24 candy eyeballs
- Red gel frosting
Directions:
For the spider web donuts-
Whisk together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, until smooth, and divide the icing mixture between 3 bowls. Add the black, orange, and purple gel coloring individually to one of the three bowls, and stir to combine.
Dip the tops of the donuts into the icing and place face up on a cooling rack to set. Repeat for all of the donuts.
Then, prepare the candy melts. Add them to a piping bag, and draw on your spider webs!
For the full, complete instructions with tips, see the recipe card below.
For the Frankenstein Halloween monster Donuts-
Whisk together the frosting, and add a generous amount of the green gel coloring. Dip the tops of the donuts into the icing, and flip them face up on a cooling rack to set.
As you go, add sprinkles to the top part of the donuts for Frankenstein’s hair, and add two candy eyeballs.
For full, complete instructions with tips, see the recipe card below.
For the Vampire Donuts-
These are the easiest of the set! Add the vampire teeth to the center of the donuts. Use the red gel frosting to attach the eyes to the tops of the donuts, then add a little red gel for the vampire blood on the mouth.
For full instructions with tips, see the recipe card below.
Tips & Tricks
- Store leftover donuts in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- If you have a recipe for a sturdy, cake-ier donut, you can absolutely make your own homemade donuts to decorate.
- For the full directions and details of each recipe, see our recipe card below!
We hope you make some of these fun Halloween themed treats. They are the easiest Halloween donuts to make and such a tasty treat for celebrating. These would also be the PERFECT fun Halloween treats for a school Halloween party, if you can bring outside food.
Save these donut recipes for later. Click the image below to save to Pinterest!
You might also like these other fun Halloween recipes-
Our delicious Halloween Bark is a fun, homemade candy.
This Halloween Chex Mix is a sweet and salty snack, perfect for Halloween movie watching.
These Leftover Halloween Candy Cookies are the perfect way to use up extra candy- and they are DELICIOUS!
Try these cute Halloween Dirt Cups for a fun, spooky treat.
Our Halloween Trifle recipe is layered with chocolate cake, pudding, and crushed Oreo’s, decorated to look like a spooky fun graveyard.
Finally, try our Peanut Butter Spider Cookies– they’re almost too cute to eat!
Halloween Donuts
Three recipes in one- three cute ideas for Halloween Donuts to make for your kiddos. Spider web, vampire, and Frankenstein donuts included!
Ingredients
- SPIDER WEB DONUTS
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ tsp. Vanilla extract
- 10 ounces white vanilla or candy melting wafers
- Black gel coloring
- Orange gel coloring
- Purple gel coloring
- You’ll also need a piping bag, cooling racks, and parchment paper.
- FRANKENSTEIN DONUTS
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Green gel food coloring
- 1 cup chocolate sprinkles
- 24 candy eyes- we used a set with multiple sizes
- VAMPIRE DONUTS
- 12 donuts, store-bought or premade
- 12 sets of vampire teeth
- 24 candy eyeballs
- Red gel frosting
Instructions
Spider Web Donuts
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, until smooth.
- Divide the sugar mixture evenly into 3 separate bowls.
- To one bowl, add black gel coloring, whisking, and adding more, as need, to get your desired shade.
- Repeat for the other two bowls with the orange and then the purple gel coloring.
- Prepare a cooling rack with a piece of parchment paper (or foil or something similar) underneath.
- Dip the tops of the donuts into the colorful icing, and let the excess drip off for a few seconds.
- Place them face up on the cooling rack.
- Repeat for all of the donuts, alternating what color icing you dip into.
- Allow the donuts to set so the icing can harden.
- Then, melt the melting wafers in a microwave safe bowl, on 30 second increments, stirring well in between.
- Once melted, allow the candy just a couple of minutes to cool.
- Add the candy to a frosting piping bag, and snip off just the very tip.
- Use the candy to make your spider webs, starting with the lines across and then connecting them with little waves to make your spider webs.
Tip: To get an idea of how to do this, trace one with a toothpick first before adding the candy.
Frankenstein Donuts
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, until smooth.
- Add a generous amount of green gel food coloring and whisk until the color is incorporated. You can add more gel if needed to get the perfect green shade.
- Prepare a cooling rack with a piece of parchment paper (or foil or something similar) underneath.
- Dip the tops of the donuts into the colorful icing, and let the excess drip off for a few seconds.
- Place them face up on the cooling rack.
- As you go, sprinkle chocolate sprinkles on the top section of the donut for Frankenstein’s hair, and then place two candy eyeballs into the frosting.
- Allow the donuts to set so the icing can harden, then enjoy.
Vampire Donuts
- Place the donuts out onto a cutting board.
- To each donut, push a set of vampire teeth into the center. It helps to push the corners of the teeth together as you place the teeth in.
- Take the red gel frosting and add just a bit to the back of your eyeball candies, and place them onto the top half of the donuts.
- Add some red gel frosting from the corner of the vampire teeth.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
1Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 312
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate.