Chocolate Spider Web Doughnuts

Ingredients

For the Doughnuts

• 2 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 5 oz. milk
• Large piping bag
• Doughnut Pan

For the icing

• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Purple food coloring
• 6 oz white melting chocolate
• Piping bag
• Small round tip

Directions

For the Doughnuts

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a doughnut pan with non-stick spray. Set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside
3. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, mix butter and sugars together.
4. Add egg and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
5. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined.
6. Slowly stream in milk and mix until combined.
7. Use piping bag to pipe batter into doughnut pan. Fill each doughnut 2/3 of the way full.
8. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let doughnuts cool in the pan.

For the icing

1. Set up a wire rack with a parchment underneath.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, milk and imitation vanilla extract.
3. Mix in a few drops of desired food coloring.
4. Dip doughnut halfway into the icing and place on the wire rack.
5. In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate in 30 second increments.
6. Prepare a piping bag with a small round tip (I used a #2)
7. Place about 1/3 of the white chocolate into prepared piping bag.
8. Pipe 8 lines equally spread apart from the center of the doughnut to the outside of the doughnut.
9. Make a wide "U" shape connecting two of the lines near the center of the doughnut. Continue connecting the rest of the lines with that "U" shape all the way around the doughnut until you get back to the original "U" shape.
10. Repeat the process about halfway up the line.
11. Repeat the process about 3/4 of the way up the line.

*12 Doughnuts