Looking to terrify and treat at the very same time? Make Monster Eye Donuts for Halloween breakfast!

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Halloween is pretty much the best day ever.  You get to wear cute things and people hand you sweets all day.  What’s not to love? Because I’m obsessed with Halloween, I’ve been sharing recipes to celebrate the spookiest holiday of them all and totally love this one.  These Monster Eye Donuts are an easy way to begin your day.  A baked vanilla donut is iced and decorated to resemble a vein-filled monster’s eye.  Or perhaps it’s my eye when I haven’t had my Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Monster Eye Donuts Recipe

Ingredients:

Makes 15 donuts

• 1 c flour
• 1/3 c sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp unsalted sweet cream butter, melted
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 c + 1 1/2 tbsp whole milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare your donut pan by greasing with cooking spray.

In a large bowl, combine your dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

In a smaller bowl, combine your melted butter, egg, milk, and vanilla extract.  Whisk until combined.

Combine wet and dry ingredients, stirring until well combined.

Pour donut batter into prepared pan and bake for 10 minutes.

Let donuts cool for 6 minutes before transferring to wire rack.

Once your donuts are baking, you can get started making the white icing for your donuts.

Icing & Decoration Ingredients:

• 4 c powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp clear corn syrup
• 1/2 c whole milk
• 1 tsp clear vanilla extract

For Decorations:

• red & black gel food colorings
• 2 disposable piping bags
• orange and green candy melts

Decorating Instructions:

Using a stand mixer, combine powdered sugar, corn syrup, milk, and vanilla. Typically vanilla extract is dark in color, but did you know they also make clear vanilla extract?  It’s perfect for keeping your baking colors as pure as possible.

You’ll be using your icing to both cover the donuts and also to make the veins and pupils for your eyeball donuts.

Scool 1/4 c of the prepared icing into two bowls.  Add drops of red coloring to one and black to the other.  Fill your disposable piping bags with these and set aside.

To cover your donuts, take your cooled donuts and dip into your icing.  Place the icing-covered donuts on a wire rack.  It’s best to put a cookie sheet underneath the wire racks to catch excess icing. Let the donuts dry for about 20 minutes.

Place a candy melt in the center of your donuts.  Using your black icing, make a black pupil on top of the candy melt.

Using the red icing, make zig zags going from the bottom of the donut towards the center.  Continue making “veins” with the red icing to fill donut.

Using the black icing, pipe a black circle onto the candy melt to serve as your pupil.  Continue decorating donuts, until you’ve finished all 15.

Once decorated, you’ll probably want to set aside two for yourself.  After all, they’re baked so they’re a better option than fried donuts.  Plus, all that milk in the recipe is full of calcium so you can pat yourself on the back for strengthening your bones one donut at a time.

Looking for more Halloween fun?

Nightmare Before Christmas Rice Krispies Treats

We had a Nightmare Before Christmas themed sleepover & it was scary fun! These treats were so simple to make!  Read the post to get my hack that made these possible in minutes.

But that’s not all, there’s even more Nightmare Before Christmas fun!

• Easy Nightmare Before Christmas Photobooth
• Printable Nightmare Before Christmas Scavenger Hunt
• Easy Halloween Bat Wreath

Halloween is a favorite holiday around here in Clementine County with all the sweet treats and spooky decor.  Do you love Halloween, too?  Share your thoughts in the comments!