These easy Spider Donuts will be a real treat on Halloween! They're made with chocolate donuts and a homemade cream cheese frosting. Decorate with a spider web, festive sprinkles and a spider ring to make a fun dessert for kids' Halloween parties and trick-or-treating festivities.
My kids and I use sometimes use our baked homemade chocolate donut recipe or baked vanilla donut recipe, but to keep it extra quick and simple buy a package of unglazed donuts from the store and then ice and decorate them at home.
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 writing icing and Halloween-themed sprinkles.
kristina's tip
Make It Extra Easy
If you want to make it really quick and easy, buy plain chocolate donuts, canned frosting, black tube icing, and spider rings. Then you only need to 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.
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.
- 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
Equipment
- donut pan
- spider rings
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.
Notes
Nutrition
Kristina Tipps says
My family loved this recipe! We can't wait to make it again.