Kitchen Tips How To Baking Decorating Cakes, Cookies and Other Desserts These Dip-Dyed Mini Doughnuts Are Guaranteed to Brighten Your Day Your kids will love this adorable DIY. By Nichole Aksamit Nichole Aksamit Nichole is a skilled editor, writer, and leader with nearly 25 years of journalism experience—most of it in food media—and a passion for cooking, eating, and all things food. She has served as a professional restaurant critic and food writer at a major metropolitan newspaper, an instructor at an accredited culinary school, a cookbook editor for one of the world's largest media companies, and the editor in chief of Allrecipes magazine. Allrecipes' editorial guidelines and Sammy Mila Published on February 8, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email Borrow a dip-dye technique from the art and fashion worlds and let kids unleash their creativity with these easy marbled minis. Try pink and orange for Valentine's Day, shades of green for St. Patrick's Day, or full-on rainbow for Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. A Dozen Ways to Go Nuts for Mini Doughnuts Dip-Dyed Marbled Mini Doughnuts All you need: 14 or 15 miniature glazed cake doughnuts (such as Hostess)1 cup Creamy Vanilla Frosting (recipe, below) or purchased creamy vanilla frostingFood coloringCoarse sparkling sugar and food-safe luster dust All you do: Microwave frosting in a microwave-safe bowl at 70 percent power, stirring every 30 seconds until it is glazing consistency, 1 to 1½ minutes. (Do not overheat.)Transfer about 2 tablespoons warmed frosting to a ramekin. Tint with 1 to 2 drops desired food coloring. Repeat with additional frosting in separate ramekins for additional colors, if desired, reserving some white frosting in the bowl.Drizzle 2 teaspoons each of 1 or 2 colored frostings into the white frosting in a circular pattern. Dip 1 doughnut into frosting. Lift straight up and allow excess to drip off. Set, frosting side up, on a wire rack over wax paper or parchment paper. Repeat with remaining doughnuts, adding more colored frosting to the white frosting as needed and taking care not to stir the frosting.Sprinkle frosted doughnuts with sparkling sugar and luster dust. Brie Passano Creamy Vanilla Frosting Makes 1¾ cups Ingredients ½ cup softened butterPinch of salt½ teaspoon vanilla extract2½ cups powdered sugar, divided1½ tablespoons milk Directions Beat butter with salt and vanilla extractBeat in 1 cup powdered sugarBeat in milkGradually beat in remaining powdered sugar Brie Passano Related How to Make Homemade Doughnuts Six Sneaky Ways To Make Brownie Mix Taste Homemade 15 Easy Desserts to Make With Crescent Rolls This article originally appeared in the February/March 2021 issue of Allrecipes Magazine. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit