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Who’s ready to get spooky? These sweet creepy crawlies are the best way to kick off the haunting Halloween season.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because I get to take all of the ‘normal’ recipes I normally make and put a creepy twist on them.

These donuts have chocolate donut holes fixed in the center with spindly chocolate legs and candy eyeballs.

For the spider bodies, I used a cake-pop maker with my donut batter. Use about three fourths of the donut batter in the actual donut tin, then stir in dark chocolate (and a touch of black food coloring for a more convincing black color). The cake-pop maker does the rest!

You can make the icing for the donuts in any color that you want. I opted for green, orange and purple – and attempted a black icing (which turned more grey-ish purple, so I made it into a creepy purple people eater).

The legs are made from tempered chocolate piped into “L” shapes and then dried. To affix the legs onto the donuts, use a touch of melted chocolate on the tips and hold in place until the chocolate sticks. No matter which way you decorate your spooky spiders, they are the perfect way to start a crisp Halloween morning.
