01/11/2025
Late Halloween post but these vegan doughnuts deserved their moment! 🎃👻
Instead of dropping £60 at Doughnut Time UK, I decided to make my own spooky treats and dupe their spider, monster and pumpkin (mine looks better, just saying). Honestly didn't expect the ingredient hunt to be the scariest part of Halloween.
Plot twist: in 2025, NO major supermarkets clearly label vegan food colouring or icing pens. Checked everywhere and it took Sainsburys two days just to confirm their red colouring (which turned everything a muddy brown) was vegan. M&S had a vegan colour set but no yellow, so I mixed turmeric with red to make orange. The solution? Lean into it and make an orange juice flavored pumpkin doughnut.
Posting today because it's World Vegan Day and these beauties prove you don't need fancy specialty shops to make something incredible. Just patience, creativity, and a very understanding kitchen.
The lineup: graveyard scene with Oreo dirt, grass, bats and a purple Skittle moon 🦇, creepy eyeball with white chocolate glaze 👁️, jack-o'-lantern with that improvised orange icing, eyeball trio emerging from the depths, and an Oreo-crusted spider that's almost too cute to eat 🕷️.
Shoutout to Otherly for consistent vegan chocolate and Sous Chef for stocking the impossible-to-find items. Sainsbury's Tesco Morrisons Waitrose & Partners - please make vegan labeling clearer in your stores!
These were totally worth every minute of the hunt.
Have you tried making vegan doughnuts?