If you are needing an easy Halloween dessert or treat, you have landed in the right place! These easy spider donuts start with pre-purchased donuts and end with the cutest spider web design! You will impress everyone when you show up with these fun spider web donuts!
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Ingredients
- Chocolate donuts – purchased from donut shop or grocery store
- White chocolate chips – Or white candy melts or almond bark
Convert Pre-Purchased Donuts Into Spider Donuts
Go to your favorite donut shop for some chocolate cake donuts. I suppose you could use chocolate glaze donuts if you really want to, but I recommend sticking with chocolate cake donuts so that you don’t risk the chocolate glaze and the white chocolate glaze for the spider web running together.
We get chocolate cake donuts from Dunkin Donuts, local donut shops, and even the bakery section at Kroger or Walmart.
Of course, you could make your own homemade chocolate donuts for this Halloween snack if you wish. Just skip the steps for adding the glaze.
I’m usually serving treats like this to children, and most children in my life don’t appreciate the efforts of a homemade dessert. So, store bought it is for me!
How to Make White Chocolate Spider Web Donuts
Set your chocolate cake donuts out on a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or foil underneath.
How to Heat White Chocolate Chips in the Microwave
Take out a microwave-safe bowl to heat white chocolate chips or white candy melts until melted. Use short increments and stir after each increment, being careful to not burn. It is very easy to burn chocolate chips!
Put the melting chocolate into the microwave bowl and heat for 30 seconds and stir. Put the bowl in for 25-30 seconds one more time and stir. Then, put it back in for 15 second intervals after that, stirring after each time until all the chocolate is melted down and smooth.
How to Pipe a Spider Web on Donuts
Pour the melted white chocolate into a squeeze bottle or a decorator’s piping bag. I love my OXO squeeze bottles, and I use them for everything – from white chocolate to sour cream to salsa whenever I want to add a more decorative touch to something. Of course, if you have neither of those things, a Ziplock bag with a small corner snipped off can also work fine! Just make sure the hole is very tiny.
Over each donut, make a circle around the hole of the donut with the melted white chocolate. Then, from the circle going down to the bottom of the donut (where the baking sheet is), make 8 or 9 vertical lines.
Now, it’s time to add the horizontal lines. Start at the top horizontal line first – about an inch down from the circle at the top. Make scalloped horizontal lines (curving upward) going from one vertical line to the next.
Now, you just need to add one more horizontal line! For the bottom line, it is possible you will need to gently pick up each donut – especially if you are working with a squeeze bottle. Go to the bottom of the donut – at the bottom of one vertical line, and draw a curved line to the next vertical line. Keep going all the way around in this pattern.
If necessary, you can use a toothpick to try to spread glaze as necessary. But don’t stress about perfection with these spider donuts. And, of course, it’s okay for each donut to look slightly different as no two spider webs are exactly the same! (Or at least I don’t think they are. Granted, I spent my life trying NOT to look for spiders and spider webs!)
Place the tray of spider web donuts in the fridge for about 30 minutes to help the glaze set.
Easy Spider Web Donuts
Ingredients
- 6 Chocolate donuts pre-made
- 2 cups White chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place 6 chocolate donuts on a foil-lined baking sheet.
- Melt chocolate chips in microwave-safe bowl in microwave by starting with a 30 second interval and stirring. Repeat. Continue at 15-20 second intervals and stirring each time until chocolate is smooth.
- Immediately, pour melted chocolate into squeeze bottle or piping bag.
- Over each donut, make a circle around the hole of the donut with the melted white chocolate. Then, from the circle going down to the bottom of the donut (where the baking sheet is), make 8 or 9 vertical lines.
- Go down an inch from the top circle and start a top horizontal line. Make scalloped horizontal lines (curving upward) going from one vertical line to the next.
- Move down an inch from the bottom of the donut and repeat the same horizontal pattern so that you end up with two horizontal lines of spider web going all around the donut. All lines should be connected – just like a web.
- Place tray in fridge for about 30 minutes or so to set.
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