Cute Halloween Donuts you can Make at Home!

August 25, 2023 • Lynsey Macdonald

Looking for spooky season baking inspo? Look no further! These cute Halloween donuts you can make at home should be top of your list. Whether you make the donuts from scratch yourself, or buy a pre-made batch to decorate, it's fun for the whole family. And when your guests come round, you'll be the ghostess with the mostess...

What you'll need to make your cute Halloween donuts:

A batch of donuts - click here for a donut recipe if you want to make your own!
Icing
Green, Yellow and Red icing colouring
White sugarpaste
Black sugarpaste
Sprinkles - preferably small strands or 100s & 1000s
Optional - Halloween novelty teeth topper

How to decorate your donuts:

To start, whip up two bowls of your icing of choice – just make sure that you’re using a bowl wide enough to dip the top of your donuts in!
Add your sprinkles to a separate bowl, ready to be added to your iced donuts!
Add your two main icing colourings (just hold off on the red!), one in each bowl of icing. Most concentrated colourings only require a couple of drops. Add a little at a time and mix until you're happy with the shade. You don't have to go with green and yellow - be creative! Your cute Halloween donuts should be your favourite colours!
Dip the top of your donut in and push into the icing about halfway - you want the sides of your donut to be covered.
While the icing is wet, roll the edge of your donut in the sprinkles to get the sides covered.
While your icing and sprinkles are setting, take your white sugarpaste and cut small white circles for your eyes. Measure a slightly smaller black circle for the pupils. Or, if you want to add another texture, why not use a small chocolate drop! Use some water or edible glue to stick the two colours together and position on your donut.
Now mix up another small bowl of icing and add your red colouring.
Using a spoon, or a toothpick if you want to really get intricate, drip on a small amount of red icing coming from the centre of the donut out on to the edge. Perfect for that Halloween vampire effect!
To finish off your cute Halloween donuts, all you need are some vampire teeth! Why not cut out the shape using your white sugarpaste, for edible fangs! Please note, if you're using plastic teeth, we only recommend buying food safe toppers. Also note that any non-edible products must be removed before eating, and do not allow young children to play with small items unsupervised as they could be a choking hazard.

And you're done! Your cute Halloween donuts are looking fa-boo-lous, and ready to be photographed - you know we want to see those snaps on the #CakeDecFamous hashtag!