It’s that time of year again… Halloween! Can you think of anything more fun as a kid, heck as an adult, than having one day per year that you get to dress up as some alter ego/fantasy character? Well at least one day that is acceptable to do so, haha.
AND… go door-to-door and have people give you candy? Okay, this part is just for the kids. I think as an adult, you might find yourself being arrested.
Then, there are Halloween parties! Whether you are hosting one or attending one, you will need to have some Halloween treats.
Why not be the hit of the party with these cute decorated donuts? If donuts aren’t your thing, which would be outside of my realm of comprehension, but hey, whatever floats your boat, then you could certainly do the same thing on cupcakes, cookies, or rice-krispy treats.
This isn’t a donut recipe. It’s just for the frosting. I figured you would have plenty to do making four different frostings and decorating all these donuts!
Here, I’ve given you four different ideas. We have a green monster covered in googl-y eyes, a vampire that appears to have been up to no good, a cute little mummy and a chocolate-y donut covered in spider webs, the kind you want to eat…but then there’s that spider…
These are just four ideas, but the ideas are endless.
But the best part of this frosting is, that the colors are made from healthy food colors, you know the kind you find in nature? Our kids get enough artificial coloring from so many things they eat. Maybe we can help eliminate some of that food coloring by substituting it with things we find in other foods.
Green Monster Frosting:
The color that makes these donuts green is Matcha Powder. Okay, okay, I know Matcha might not be everyone’s first flavor choice. It has an earthy taste, but the powdered sugar diminishes this quite a bit and the flavor is very subtle. The color is fabulous!
Matcha, of course is Green Tea. Matcha is packed with antioxidants. In fact, it has 137 times more antioxidants than regular green tea. It’s rich in fiber, chlorophyll and vitamins and, among other benefits, Provides vitamin C, selenium, chromium, zinc and magnesium.
Just tell your kids that, and they’ll be in! -Not.
You can trick them, like you do with other foods to get them to eat healthy things.
Purple Vampire Frosting:
The foods that make this frosting purple comes from blackberries and blueberries. Why both? I found that the blackberries after mashed, were too red. It needed the blue color to make it purple. If you go back to elementary school art class, you know that red and blue make purple!
Plus, extra nutritional benefits and flavor.
Both blackberries and blueberries are packed with vitamin C. They’re high in fiber, a great source of vitamin K. They’re high in manganese. I will let you look that up, because there are too many health benefits to list.
They also support brain and oral health, and are high in antioxidants.
I guess I need to eat more of these
Midnight Chocolate Frosting:
I have to say this combination was my very favorite. I’m a dark chocolate girl anyway. So this dark chocolate frosting with marshmallow on top, so good!
The reason for the extra dark chocolate is, one, for the color. We are trying to get that color as dark as we can, but also, when you add the powdered sugar, it dilutes and sweetens the chocolate. So, anything with less cocoa content will be too sweet and too lightly colored.
Do I need to go over the benefits of dark chocolate? Come on, we all know we eat it because it’s delicious, despite being told it’s higher in antioxidants. In fact the higher the cocoa content, the higher the antioxidants.
It’s also higher in fiber, and has iron, copper and magnesium.
It wouldn’t matter to me what the health benefits are. You don’t have to sell me on dark chocolate.
White Chocolate Mummy Frosting:
Finally, we have what I think is the cutest of them all. I love this cute little mummy. It was also so fun to make.
This is made the same way as the dark chocolate frosting, just using white chocolate.
Yes, even white chocolate has health benefits, actually, too many to list. Although one of them is, that it’s caffeine free.
And, though I’m not as big of a fan as I am with white chocolate, it really does add a great flavor to this frosting.
Kids will have fun piping on the mummy cloth.
Have fun decorating these!
Tag me on Instagram with your amazing skills. I’d love to see them.
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Instead of using processed food coloring to color your frostings, try using natural, healthy ingredients next time you make party treats for your kids!
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- 3 C powdered sugar
- 1/3 C milk any kind, divided
- 1 tablespoon matcha powder
- 1 jar candy eyes
- 3 C powdered sugar
- 1/4 C blackberries mashed
- 1/4 C blueberries mashed
- 10-12 vampire teeth
- 2 tablespoons strawberry or raspberry jam
- 20-24 candy eyes
- 1 piping bag with small round tip
- 2 C powdered sugar
- 1/2 C 60-70% dark chocolate melted
- 1/2 C Almond milk
- 10 large marshmallows
- 2 C powdered sugar
- 1/2 C white chocolate melted
- 1/3 C milk
- 1 piping bag with small leaf tip
- 20-24 candy eyes
- 10-12 small plastic spiders
- In a medium bowl, pour 2 tablespoons of milk and mix with the matcha powder until you have a smooth paste. Then add the remaining milk and powdered sugar. Stir until smooth and there are no longer any lumps. The frosting should be the consistency of cake batter. If it's too thick, add more milk, 1/2 teaspoon at at time. If it's too thin, add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until it's right. Dip the tops of the donuts into the frosting, turn over and set on a cooling rack. The extra frosting will drip off. While the frosting is still wet, add the candy eyes in a random pattern. Allow to dry completely before serving.
- With a pastry cutter or fork, mash the blackberries and blueberries together in a bowl. Pour them into a wire mesh strainer with a bowl underneath, and continue pressing the berries with a fork to get all the juice out of them, while leaving all the large seeds behind. Mix the juice together with the powdered sugar. Stir until smooth and there are no longer any lumps. The frosting should be the consistency of cake batter. If it's too thick, add more milk, 1/2 teaspoon at at time. If it's too thin, add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until it's right. Dip the tops of the donuts into the frosting, turn over and set on a cooling rack. The extra frosting will drip off. While the frosting is still wet, add two candy eyes. Allow to dry completely. When dry, cut the top of the vampire teeth from the bottom and carefully place them in the donut hole. Once you have made your dark chocolate frosting (from the next recipe), with your piping bag, pipe a hairline on the top of the donut and fill it in. The last step is to add a small amount of jam to each corner of vampire's mouth.
- Chop the dark chocolate into small pieces. In a microwave, melt the dark chocolate in a small bowl, about 20 seconds at a time, stirring each time, until melted. The melted amount should equal 1/2 cup. Add 1/2 milk to the chocolate mixture and stir until incorporated. Next add the powdered sugar and stir until smooth and there are no longer any lumps. The frosting should be the consistency of cake batter. If it's too thick, add more milk, 1/2 teaspoon at at time. If it's too thin, add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until it's right. Dip the tops of the donuts into the frosting, turn over and set on a cooling rack. Allow to dry completely. Once dry, place 5 marshmallows in a bowl and microwave for about 20 seconds, just until they get puffy. Don't overcook the marshmallows, they will get hard and you won't be able to work with them. Stir the puffed up marshmallow together and quickly dip the tips of the fingers of both of your hands into the mixture and stretch it over the donuts to form a spider web. It's very sticky and you have to move fast. When the marshmallow gets too cold to work with, and it will very quickly, re-warm it again. Add more marshmallows when necessary, until they are all covered. Add a plastic spider to the top of each donut.
- Chop the white chocolate into small pieces. In a microwave, melt the chocolate in a small bowl, about 20 seconds at a time, stirring each time, until melted. The melted amount should equal 1/2 cup. Add 1/3 milk to the chocolate mixture and stir until incorporated. Next add the powdered sugar and stir until smooth and there are no longer any lumps. The frosting should be the consistency of cake batter. If it's too thick, add more milk, 1/2 teaspoon at at time. If it's too thin, add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until it's right. Dip the tops of the donuts into the frosting, turn over and set on a cooling rack. Allow to dry completely. To the remaining frosting, add 1/4 cup powdered sugar at a time until the frosting is the consistency of peanut butter. Place a flat leaf tip in a pastry bag and add the thick frosting. Randomly pipe frosting across the donut to resemble mummy cloth. Add two candy eyes and then give it one more pass of frosting to just cover the tops of the eyes. Allow to dry.
- Note: If you feel the colors aren't quite right or vibrant enough, add just one small drop of food coloring for each frosting you want to change. For photo purposes, I added 1 small drop of green food coloring to the Green Monster Frosting and 1 small drop of black food coloring to the Midnight Chocolate Frosting.
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