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Spider Donuts

Baked Halloween Spider Donuts

These Spider Donuts are great for Halloween! Fresh baked Chocolatey donuts dipped in a chocolate glaze and decorated to look like spiders!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Resting Time 30 minutes
Total Time 52 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 9 Donuts

Ingredients
  

Chocolate Donuts

  • 1 egg
  • ¼ cup oil
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ⅓ cup all purpose flour
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ cup milk

Glaze

  • ¼ cup heavy cream
  • ¼ cup semisweet chocolate
  • 3 tablespoon butter
  • 2 tablespoon corn syrup

Instructions
 

Donut Batter

  • In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, oil, sour cream, vanilla and mix thoroughly.
  • Sift all the dry ingredients into a medium sized bowl.
  • Alternate by adding in the dry and the milk in thirds until mixed starting with dry first.
  • Grease a donut pan and fill the mold ⅔ full of the donut batter.
  • Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 5-7 minutes.
  • Once done allow them to full cool on a cooling rack.

Make the Glaze

  • Add the chocolate chips into a medium sized bowl and set aside.
  • Heat the heavy cream, butter and corn syrup in a small saucepan until hot, not boiling.
  • Once the mixture is hot pour over the chocolate and mix until the mixture is smooth. Allow it set and cool down for 10 minutes.

Decorate the spider donuts

  • Dip the tops of the donuts into the glaze and then let them sit on the cooling rack to allow access to drip below.
  • Place the Ferrer Rocher in the donut hole and then cut the pocky sticks into 1.5 inches and place them on the sides of the spider to represent the legs. I choose to do 6 legs instead of 8 just because I thought they looked cuter with 6. Place the candy eyes on the Ferrer Rocher but making them lean on the glaze to allow them to stick and not move.
Keyword chocolate donut, halloween donut, Spider donut
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