If you’ve ever met my family in person then you know we love us some donuts. We will take them basic with just glaze, cake donuts or frosted like a cupcake. It doesn’t matter to us when it comes to donuts. We love them all.

So when we moved states to a very small town. I think it’s actually considered a village where we live. That’s how small the population is here. But with a small town also comes smaller accommodations. Which means we don’t have a donut shop near us. I mean we have a place that makes donuts but they are cute and decorated for when we want to treat ourselves.

So I knew that I need to figure out how to get donuts in our home and ASAP. So I ordered us this silicone donut pan from amazon, and it’s doesn’t disappoint.

I’ve made my own donuts and glaze and this time around I decided to go with some frosting. So they were practically a dessert more than a breakfast but my littles didn’t complain. And I had fun making all kinds of fun designs. I made regular size donuts and mini donuts and will be walking you through how to make each one below like I did with my Halloween donuts.

Before we get to the decorating part I want to share with you are favorite donut recipe. This recipe makes exactly 9 donuts and is perfect for the pan we have been using.

Homemade Donuts:

Ingredients:

3 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
6 tbsp melted butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup milk
3 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a large bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients
(flour, sugar, baking powder, salt)
In a small bowl whisk together the wet ingredients
(egg, milk, butter, vanilla extract)
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until all flour clumps are gone
Spoon the mixture into your greased donut pan filling about 3/4 full. Do not over fill and cover the center pivot.
Place pan in the oven for 18-22 mins
Insert a wooden toothpick when done to ensure it is fully done. NO wet batter should be on your toothpick when you remove it.
When done allow to cool but still remain warm

Now onto decorating the donuts… the fun part and obviously the most time consuming. But my kids so super excited when I make them festive things that their excitement alone makes it all worth it.

Decorating The Donuts:

Ingredients/ Items needed:

White frosting
Sandwich zip lock bags
Food coloring (red, green, black, orange, blue, yellow
Sprinkles, candy eyeballs

How To:

Wreath

Mix some frosting with green food coloring and coat the top of your donut
Place some white frosting and red food coloring into a sandwich bag and mix up.
Squeeze frosting to bottom corner of bag and snip a tiny hole
Draw the red bow onto the donut by squeezing the frosting towards the snipped corner slowly and consistently

Candy Canes

Coat the top of the donut in white frosting
Place candy cane sprinkles all around and sprinkle with tiny red sprinkles

Snowflakes

Mix white frosting with blue food coloring and coat the top of your donut
Place snowflake sprinkles around on the top and sprinkle some white sprinkles around

Candy Cane Stripes

Coat the top of your donut with white frosting
Place some white frosting and red food coloring into a sandwhich bag and mix up.
Squeeze frosting to bottom corner of bag and snip a tiny hole
Draw red stripes onto the donut by squeezing the frosting towards the snipped corner slowly and consistently going back and forth across your donut.

Plaid

Coat the top of your donut in white frosting
Place some white frosting and red food coloring into one sandwich bag and some white frosting and green food coloring into another sandwich bag. Mix up both separate bags throughly
Squeeze frosting to bottom corner of bags and snip a tiny hole
Draw two red lines on each side of your donut parallel to each other. Then draw two green lines perpendicular to those red lines on both sides of your donuts hole.

If your feel the festive Christmas donut vibes but don’t feel like a king your own. That’s fine too. Go check out the fun mini ones I made use donuts from the store.

Remember to have fun with these and don’t over complicate the process. If your not feeling the decorating part. Then just bake and frost them and let your little go to town decorating them. I’ve let mine do this and they really enjoy it.

If you decide to make these then comment below and let me know which ones you made and how you liked the recipe. Also thank you for stopping by to check out my blog and I hope you come back soon.

Until next time, live a life you love

Xo Jessica!