Discover how to make your own Halloween Donuts with this easy and delicious recipe. Spooky, tasty treats for your Halloween party, perfect for the scariest time of the year. Delicious for breakfast or treat. They are quick and simple to make, taste delicious, and look scary. Perfect for Halloween!

A trio of Halloween donuts with a terrible continuous eye on a dark background.

Easy Recipe for Creepily Delicious Treats

These donuts are a great tip for inspiration for a Halloween breakfast, lunch, brunch, or treat. An easy, spookily, delicious treat for your Halloween party.

You can make your own scary and delicious donuts with a few simple ingredients and a touch of creativity. Or let the kids decorate at a birthday party.

I bought the donuts ready-made (unfortunately, I don't have a donut maker at home yet) and decorated them until they looked like this. And that's a piece of cake.

These Halloween donuts are perfect for celebrating the scariest time of the year. Taste the magic of Halloween with these delicious donuts!

Tips, Substitutions, and Variations

Bloody red filling: Cut the donuts and fill them generously with strawberry jam for an extra bloody effect.
Zombie donuts: Make the icing green and sprinkle crumbled chocolate chip cookies over the donuts as 'soil.' Press one eye in the center.
Pumpkin donuts: Color the icing orange and use a green decoding marker to add stripes to create a pumpkin. Make a pumpkin stem with a licorice lace or a pretzel.
Lemon juice: If you prefer a vanilla flavor, replace it with a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Three Halloween donuts with eyes and red blood stripes on a black background

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📖 Recipe

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Halloween Donuts Recipe

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Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 10

Course: Lunch, Sweets and Sweet Baking

Cuisine: American

Author: Andréa

Servings: 5 persons

Author: Andréa

Ingredients

Glaze

1⅔ cup confectioners sugar
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Halloween Donuts

1 portion glaze
5 donuts
1 portion red writing marker
5 candy eyes
3 tablespoons Halloween decoration sprinkles like bones and skulls

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic

Instructions

Glaze

Put the confectioner's sugar in a bowl and add the water and lemon juice.
1⅔ cup confectioners sugar, 2 tablespoons water, 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Mix until a smooth paste is formed. If it is still too grainy, add some extra water. If the glaze is too thin, mix in some icing sugar.

Halloween donuts

Put the glaze in a bowl.
1 portion glaze
Dip the donuts in the glaze and let dry for 5 minutes.
5 donuts
Fill the center with the icing and draw some bloodlines with the red writing marker on the glaze.
1 portion red writing marker
Press the eye into the center and sprinkle the sugar decorations over it.
5 candy eyes, 3 tablespoons Halloween decoration sprinkles

Notes

1. Red writing marker: The red writing marker has a red frosting. It can be purchased in the supermarket or (online) cooking and baking stores. Before use, heat it in a glass of hot water for 5 minutes, then you can decorate it better.

2. Sugar decorations: Buy sugar eyes and Halloween sugar decorations. These are available at the supermarket and (online) cooking and baking stores.

3. Lemon juice: If you prefer a vanilla flavor, replace it with a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

4. Variations:

Bloody red filling: Cut the donuts and fill them generously with strawberry jam for an extra bloody effect.
Zombie donuts: Make the icing green and sprinkle crumbled chocolate chip cookies over the donuts as 'soil.' Press one eye in the center.
Pumpkin donuts: Color the icing orange and use a green decoding marker to add stripes to create a pumpkin. Make a pumpkin stem with a licorice lace or a pretzel.

5. Storage

Preferably, eat the donuts the same day you decorate them.

Room temperature: Store in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
Freezer: Undecorated donuts can be stored in a freezer container or bag for up to a month. Thaw at room temperature. If the donuts are decorated, you cannot freeze them.