For an event we were running as a PTA we wanted to sell monster donuts to the children and adults who were coming so we looked around for a recipe for monster doughnuts that we could easily make.

We weren’t actually going to make the monster doughnuts ourselves but instead buy some and decorate them with monster faces. The ones that we had seen on Pinterest had edible eyes and then plastic mouths that opened over the hole of the donut  (which you can buy very cheaply online) but we didn’t want to use any more plastic than we needed to so we decided to go another route with the monster mouths!

It was actually not that difficult to make them although it was a bit time consuming. All you need is some fondant icing in different colours (it just so happened that I had some black and red left over from a cake I had made) plus some white fondant icing.

I rolled out the white icing and cut out eyes using a bottle top. Then I rolled out some black and red and cut out the pupils with the outside part of a calpol syringe! (I couldn’t find anything else in my kitchen small enough!).

For the mouths I rolled out some icing for the main part and just cut it up from strips. I then used some letter cutters that I had to make strange monster looking mouths. The best letters I found were the O, K, I, X but maybe you can come up with something better!

To apply the mouth and eyes to the doughnuts I made up some running icing with just icing sugar and water which acted as a kind of glue.

We bought the doughnuts from a supermarket at a cost of around 25p each and sold them for £1 each – and they all sold out so maybe next time we will have to make more!