Spider Donuts will be a real treat on Halloween! These spooky donuts are made with chocolate donuts and iced with a homemade cream cheese frosting. Decorate them with a spider web or festive sprinkles and a spider ring, and you've got fun spider donuts for the kids.
This is an easy recipe for making spider donuts for Halloween dessert. You can make chocolate donuts from scratch or buy packaged, unglazed donuts from the store and then ice them with a quick homemade cream cheese frosting. Decorate with black icing spider webs, spider rings, and Halloween sprinkles, and you'll have some happy little kids at dessert time.
And if you're looking for yummy Halloween dinner ideas for the kids, check out these delicious mummy hot dogs or witches brew stew. Love dessert? Graveyard pudding cups, no-bake brownie bat caves, dark unicorn cupcakes and zombie cupcakes are cute and festive ideas.
Ingredients
If making the chocolate donuts from scratch you need:
- All purpose flour
- Cocoa powder
- White sugar
- Baking powder and baking soda
- Egg
- Milk
- Plain yogurt
- Butter
- Vanilla extract
If making the frosting from scratch you need:
- Butter
- Cream cheese
- Vanilla extract
- Confectioner's sugar
If not taking the complete homemade route, you'll need 8 premade donuts and a can of vanilla frosting. You'll also need a tube of black frosting and Halloween-themed sprinkles.
Instructions
If you want to make it really quick and easy, buy plain chocolate donuts, canned frosting, black tube icing, and spider rings. If you do this, all you need to do is ice the donuts, squeeze a black spider web outline onto each, and stick a spider ring on top. Easy peasy and you can probably do it about 10 minutes.
If you'd rather make your spider donuts from scratch, here's how to do it:
- Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and sugar, then add the milk, yogurt, butter, and vanilla extract and whisk well. Combine ingredients in both bowls and whisk until smooth.
- Grease the donut pan and spoon the donut mixture into the donut molds (or use a piping bag). Bake for 9 minutes, cool for 10 minutes and transfer to a plate for decorating.
- In an electric mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla extract until smooth. Add the sugar and continue to beat until smooth. *Skip this step if using canned frosting.
- Use a knife to spread the icing on the donuts. Design a spider web on each donut with the tube of black icing. Place a spider ring after the frosting is complete and serve. Alternatively, decorate with Halloween sprinkles.
How To Store Frosted Donuts
Frosted donuts are best eaten the day they were made. Store any leftover donuts at room temperature, covered, for up to 2 days.
Recipe
Spider Donuts
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- ⅔ cup white sugar
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ yogurt, plain
- 3 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups confectioner's sugar
- black squeeze frosting
- Halloween theme sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and sugar, then add the milk, yogurt, butter, and vanilla extract and whisk well. Combine ingredients in both bowls and whisk until smooth. *If using store bought donuts skip steps 1-2.
- Grease the donut pan and spoon the donut mixture into the donut molds (or use a piping bag). Bake for 9 minutes, cool for 10 minutes and transfer to a plate for decorating.
- In an electric mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla extract until smooth. Add the sugar and continue to beat until smooth. *Skip this step if using canned frosting.
- Use a knife to spread the icing on the donuts. Design a spider web on each donut with the tube of black icing. Place a spider ring after the frosting is complete and serve. Alternatively, decorate with Halloween sprinkles.
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Gloria says
A fun treat for kids of any age. Great to take to Halloween parties too. The grandkids will love these.
Lauren Michael Harris says
Ahh how cute are these spider donuts! Adding these to my must-make Halloween list to surprise the kids with one day next month!
Bernice says
These are totally adorable and would make a really fun kids Halloween party activity. I know my niece would decorate a few!
Megane says
I can't wait to give those spider donuts a go this Halloween – they look like such a fun and spooky treat! I'm sure the kids are going to have a blast decorating and gobbling them up. Thanks a bunch for sharing the recipe, I'm all set for some Halloween fun! 🕷️🍩🎃👻😄
Carrie Robinson says
This is just the cutest idea! 🙂 And I love that the donuts are actually homemade. These would be fun for my daughter and I to make together for Halloween.
Tristin says
These are going on my list to make for Halloween! So cute, my kids are going to have fun with these.
Enriqueta E Lemoine says
I love how you decorate these spider donuts. My kids are grown up and I still don't have grandchildren, but they are so cute that I want to make them...
Krysten says
These are so cute! Perfect for the kids' Halloween party. The cream cheese frosting is my favorite. I will probably make a second frosting flavor to switch it up. I'll have to find more Halloween-themed sprinkles but I just used some orange ones I found at the store. Thanks for sharing!
Moop Brown says
This donuts look so festive and like a tasty treat everyone will enjoy.