Lisa Frank Donuts

By Erin

Where are my fellow 80’s & 90’s kids? It’s National Donut Day so what better way to celebrate than with some colorful whimsical Lisa Frank inspired donuts! I would make these any day of the year though, they are just so fun and delicious to only have on National Donut Day.

Lisa Frank Donuts

Makes 6 donuts
Prep time: 15 minutes
Bake time : 12 minutes Decorating time : 30 minutes

1 cup flour
1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1⁄4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
5 tablespoons whole milk
1 large egg
1⁄2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

3 tablespoons canola oil
1 large piping bag
1 cup bright funfetti sprinkles

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a donut pan with baking spray.
Using a small bowl, whisk the flour, ground cinnamon, sugar, baking powder and salt In a large bowl, whisk the milk, egg, vanilla and oil until combined.

Fold in the funfetti sprinkles.
Whisk in the dry ingredients until combined and smooth.
Scoop the batter into the piping bag and fill the donut cavity 3⁄4 way full.

Bake in the oven for 12 minutes.
Instantly remove from oven and turn the pan over onto a wire rack and allow to cool. Place a small cookie sheet under the wire rack to easily clean up the donut icing.

Vanilla Donut Icing

4 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons corn syrup
3 teaspoons clear vanilla extract

1/2 cup milk, plus more to thin the icing if need to.
Purple, Sky Blue, Neon Green, Neon Yellow, Pink gel food coloring and 5 squeeze bottles.
2 disposable piping bags
5 small bowls to mix the dye with the donut icing.

Directions
Whisk all ingredients in a large bowl until combined and smooth.

If your icing is thick, whisk in 2 tbsp of milk until the icing is thick but lava like when you dip a spoon into the icing and it pours off the spoon like lava.

Scoop 1⁄2 cup of frosting into each bowl. You will have left over frosting in the large bowl and that’s okay, you need it to mix a darker purple and a darker pink for the spots on the donut.

Drip at least 2 drops of each food coloring color into 1 bowl each.

Mix until fully combined and colored, pour the icing into their own squeeze bottles.

Once the colors are in their squeeze bottles, scoop 1⁄4 cup of icing into the purple and pink bowls.

Mix in at least 4-5 drops of the purple and pink food coloring into their respective bowls.

Mix until combined, then scoop the purple and pink into their own piping bags and set aside.

Starting with the purple icing, pour it over 1 side of the donut and let the icing drip over the donut.

Using the blue icing, pour it over a small section of the donut next to the purple icing.

Using the green icing, pour it over a section of the middle of the donut like in the photos above.

Repeat step with the yellow and the pink icing.

Allow the icing to set for 10 minutes.

Cut the tip off the dark pink piping bag and pipe different size spots all over the donuts to make it look like leopard spots.

Cut a the tip off the purple piping bag and pipe lines around the spots.

Allow the icing to harden for 20 minutes before enjoying!