These delicious baked Halloween donuts are moist, rich, and fun to decorate with homemade colorful icings (all natural) and spooky toppings.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Servings: 12donuts
Author: Jenné
Ingredients
1¾cups+ 2 tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour or white whole wheat flour
1½tsppumpkin pie spice or 1 tsp cinnamon + 1/4 tsp freshly ground nutmeg + 1/4 tsp ground ginger
1½tspbaking powder
1tspsalt
2tbspground flax seed + 4 tbsp waterthis is equivalent to 2 “flax eggs”
½cupvegetable oil
1 to 1½cupsvegan cane sugar
1½cupssweet potato puréeI used canned
1tspvinegarwhite or apple cider
Halloween Icings
White frosting red blood splatter1-2 tsp beet juice for blood
Black icing & spider webs1 tsp black cocoa powder for icing and web recipe below
Green slime with googly eyes1 tsp matcha for icing
2cuppowdered sugar
3tbspsoy milkor other non-dairy milk
1tspvanilla extract
Spider webs and Googly eyes
1cuppowdered sugar
1tsparrowroot or cornstarch
1tbsplight corn syrup
2tspsoy milkor other non-dairy milk
mini vegan chocolate chipslike Enjoy Life
Instructions
Donuts
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a donut pan or two (recipe makes 12 donuts). If you are using a silicon donut mold you won’t need to grease it.
Mix together the dry ingredients (flour to salt).
In a separate bowl mix together the wet ingredients (flax “egg” to vinegar).
Pour the wet into the dry and stir to combine. Careful not to overmix the batter.
Fill the donut pans/mold using about 1/4 cup of batter for each donut.
Bake for 18-20 minutes. A toothpick should come out dry when testing doneness.
Set the donuts onto a cooling rack to cool.
Once cool, ice the donuts and top with spider webs and eyeballs (recipe below).
Icing
Sift the powdered sugar into a small mixing bowl. Stir in the soy milk and vanilla, and continue to stir until it is smooth. If yours is too thick add more soy milk, too thin add more sugar.
Now separate the icing between 3 bowls large enough for dipping a donut. Remove about 2 tbsp of icing from one of the bowls and put into a smaller bowl (that’s for your blood splatter icing).
Keep one bowl of icing white. For the red, black, and green icings simply stir in 1 teaspoon of coloring to each bowl. Stir until smooth.
Spider webs & googly eyes
Whisk together the sugar, cornstarch, corn syrup, and soy milk. Stir well until well combined and smooth. It will be thick so you may need your hands to knead the paste together.
Place it into a piping bag or plastic zip bag with the tip cut off (it should be cut very tiny to create a very thin spider web…wider for the eyes).
Squeeze the paste onto wax paper, parchment or split in the shape of round eyeballs (then top with mini chocolate chips before hardening). Do the same to create spider webs (draw a spider web on paper and place under the parchment to trace over).
Allow the eyeballs and spider webs to harden on your counter at least 8 hours.