How to design Halloween Doughnuts for World Bread Day

Wonder what you can let your kids do for Halloween? Why not let them design fun Halloween doughnuts for their snacks. Here are some ideas.

Halloween

Halloween is fast approaching so we are seeing a lot of spooky designs, even on our food. As part of the World Bread Day celebration, Bacolod-Negros Occidental Bakers’ Association (BACNOBA) held a Halloween doughnut decorating event. This was held at The District North point.

The event was sponsored by the Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation.

How to Design Halloween Doughnuts

Our homeschooling in Bacolod kids were given four doughnuts each to design. The organizers were going around, guiding the kids and giving them materials.

This can be a fun and not scary Halloween activity for kids. While we do not really “celebrate” Halloween, we just celebrate our kids’ creativity here. We allow them to create these popular Halloween and let them explore their artistic side. We don’t buy spooky toys though. As for costumes, we they do have a costume party at ballet school. But there is nothing scary there, too.

Halloween Doughnuts 

Here are the Halloween doughnut designs that the kids did.

Halloween Pumpkin Doughnut 

What you need:

• 1 doughnut with orange glaze
• Vanilla icing
• Green candy sprinkles
• Chocolate icing

What to do:

Squeeze some vanilla icing on one side of the orange doughnut to make the pumpkin hair. Then sprinkle the green candy over it.

For the eyes, nose, and mouth, use the chocolate icing. Draw big triangles for the eyes and fill them in with the icing. Draw a smaller triangle for the nose. For the mouth, you can draw any lip design. Our daughter Dindin drew a horizontal line and some vertical lines to form a stitch.

Halloween Spider Doughnut

What you need:

• 1 doughnut with chocolate glaze
• 1 Choco Mallow
• Icing
• Brown pretzels
• 2 small white marshmallows
• 1 M & M candy

What to do:

Open your Choco Mallow but don’t eat it like my daughter Shane. On the flat side, put some icing and stick the mallow on top of the doughnut. Cut the curve parts of the pretzels and use them as spider legs. Attached four on each side of the doughnut.

Put icing on one side of the two marshmallows and put them on the front part to become the eyes. Just below the eyes, stick the M & M candy with some icing to become the mouth.

Halloween Spider Web Doughnut

What you need:

• 1 doughnut with white glaze
  Chocolate icing
  Toothpick
  1 M & M candy

What to do:

Draw a small circle in the middle of the doughnut. Space it out, about 3/4 of a centimeter then draw a bigger circle. Continue to do so until you reach almost the edge of the doughnut. Just leave a bit of margin towards the outer sides.

Using a toothpick, lightly draw a line from the middle going outwards. Pulling the toothpick like that will  make chocolate line smudges on the white glazed. Do it all around the doughnut to make the web. Using the chocolate icing, put some at the back of any colored M & M candy and stick it anywhere on the web. That’s your spider.

Halloween One-Eyed Monster Doughnut

What you need:

• 1 doughnut with purple glaze
• 1 Strawberry Potchi candy
• 1/2 of the flat communion bread/wafer
• Chocolate icing

What to do:

Put some icing on the flat side of the Potchi and stick it in the middle of your doughnut. Then put some icing on one side of the communion wafer and stick it below the Potchi to become the mouth. You can squirt some chocolate icing on top of the Potchi to become the pupil. You may also design the mouth.

Preparing Doughnuts at Home

Doughnuts are pretty easy to make, so you may opt to cook them at home. You can make several batches and ask some friends to come over. Then the kids can have an afternoon of Halloween doughnut decorating.

Hope you enjoyed these Halloween doughnuts as much as my kids enjoyed making them! As we are homeschooling, we continue to look out for worthwhile and fun activities like these to enhance our kids’ creativity. And most of all, it’s free!

Acknowledgements: Thank you BACNOBA for doing this every year and for inviting us, too. Thank you, Madam Chole Chua of Quan and Mr. Arvin Chua of Foodman.

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