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Make your Halloween morning a little more awesome with these easy candy corn doughnuts. The best part: they come together in a record 30 minutes with just 4 ingredients. What’s not to love about that? Check out the tutorial below for the full details.

Sometimes you just need a quick, easy treat. And these candy corn doughnuts could be just that! They’re super easy to make, require only a few ingredients and turn out every bit as tasty as they are pretty.

How to make candy corn doughnuts

First, whip up some doughnuts like these sweet potato doughnuts or these pumpkin spice doughnuts. Not in the mood to make your own? Store bought doughnuts (without glaze or sugar on top) work just as well.

Step-by-step photos for making candy corn doughnuts

Second, make your icing, divide it between three bowls, and tint one yellow, one orange and leave the other white.

Third, spoon that icing onto a plate and start dipping!

How to make the perfect candy corn doughnuts

  • Consistency is key with this glaze; you want it nice and think but not so thick that it won’t stick to the tops of your doughnuts. You know you’ve reached the right consistency when you can drop a spoonful of glaze back into the bowl and it reabsorbs in about 10 seconds.
  • Be sure to add more glaze to your plate/bowl every couple of dips so that the glaze stays fresh and doesn’t crust.
  • This is a relatively soft glaze so make sure you don’t pack or stack your doughnuts until the glaze has completely hardened.
  • Leftovers: The glaze on these doughnuts is relatively soft and does not keep well. In all likelihood, leftover doughnuts will develop marks and divots in the glaze if stored overnight. If you end up with leftovers, the best way to store them is in a paper bag. Whatever you do, don’t refrigerate them or put them in plastic.
  • Reviving stale doughnuts: If you wound up with leftovers and they’ve gotten stale, no worries! You can soften them back up by microwaving them in 5-10 second increments until soft. Just watch out for melting icing.

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Candy Corn Doughnuts

a stack of candy corn doughnuts in front of a jug of milk with doughnuts and pumpkins in the background
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These candy corn doughnuts are every bit as easy as they are pretty. If you’re looking for a last minute Halloween treat, this is it!

  • Author: Claire of The Simple, Sweet Life
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 8 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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  • 6–8 doughnuts (like these sweet potato doughnuts)
  • 2 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 5 tbsp. milk
  • Orange and yellow food gel coloring

Instructions

  1. Bake (or buy) your doughnuts and make sure they’ve cooled to room temperature (if you baked them). In a medium-size bowl, beat the powdered sugar and milk until thick.
  2. Make sure there aren’t any powdered sugar lumps.
  3. Separate your icing into three bowls. Tint one orange, one yellow, and leave the third one white.
  4. Spoon a couple of tablespoons of each color onto a plate or shallow bowl. Make sure the colors are close enough to touch.
  5. Dip the top of each doughnut into the icing, making sure you don’t push it so far down that it touches the plate (this will make the icing patchy wherever the doughnut touched the plate).
  6. Allow the excess icing to drip off before turning the doughnut right side up.
  7. Add another tablespoon of each icing to the plate and repeat. Make sure to refresh the icing between each couple of dips.
  8. Allow the icing to harden completely (about 20-30 minutes) before packaging.

Notes

  • Consistency is key with this glaze; you want it nice and think but not so thick that it won’t stick to the tops of your doughnuts. You know you’ve reached the right consistency when you can drop a spoonful of glaze back into the bowl and it reabsorbs in about 10 seconds.
  • Be sure to add more glaze to your plate/bowl every couple of dips so that the glaze stays fresh and doesn’t crust.
  • This is a relatively soft glaze so make sure you don’t pack or stack your doughnuts until the glaze has completely hardened.
  • Leftovers: The glaze on these doughnuts is relatively soft and does not keep well. In all likelihood, leftover doughnuts will develop marks and divots in the glaze if stored overnight. If you end up with leftovers, the best way to store them is in a paper bag. Whatever you do, don’t refrigerate them or put them in plastic.
  • Reviving stale doughnuts: If you wound up with leftovers and they’ve gotten stale, no worries! You can soften them back up by microwaving them in 5-10 second increments until soft. Just watch out for melting icing.

Keywords: candy corn donuts, candy corn doughnuts, halloween doughnuts

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Update Notes: This post was originally published in October of 2016 but was republished with step by step photos and tips in October of 2018.

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  14. Amanda Mason says

    These look SO amazing and actually pretty easy! When I hear donuts I never think easy but these actually look easy!! I’m going to give these a go! That video is so helpful!

    ★★★★★

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  19. Ruchi says

    They are so cute! Oh, look at those colors.. I am totally making them for my kids in a Halloween morning( and probably many more times)

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