Rainbow Donuts
These fun donuts are made using fruity pebbles, white chocolate and shredded coconut! You won’t be able to get your hand off these delicious donuts!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1 cup (120g) flour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp milk
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 3 tbsp vegetable/canola oil
- 4 rectangles vanilla candiquik
- 1 tbsp vegetable shortening
- Fruity pebbles (sorted by color (you don’t need to sort the entire box))
- Shredded coconut (small amount)
- Paint brush (new – never used before)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a donut pan with cooking spray, use a paper towel to lightly spread/remove excess spray.
- 2
In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- 3
In another bowl combine the milk, egg, vanilla, and oil until well blended. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mix just until combined.
- 4
Transfer the batter to a large piping bag or use a ziploc bag with one corner cut off. Pipe the batter into the donut pan, filling each donut hole about 2/3 full.
- 5
Bake the donuts for 10 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let the donuts sit in the pan for 10 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool.
- 6
Remove the donuts from the donut pan and place them on a wire rack to cool.
- 7
Melt the vanilla candiquik with the vegetable shortening in a microwave safe bowl. I like to place the candiquik and vegetable shortening in a small saucepan over low heat and melt the chocolate that way. You could microwave the candiquik and vegetable shortening on 50% power for 2 minutes, stirring every 20-30 seconds, until melted.
- 8
For dipping the donuts, it’s easiest to transfer the melted chocolate to a small shallow dish, but large enough to fit a donut in. While hanging onto the edges of the donut, dip each donut into the chocolate and pause for a few seconds while the donut is upside down to allow to excess to fall off. Allow the donuts to cool on a cooling rack completely before adding the fruity pebbles.
- 9
Keep the chocolate warm during this process. The melted chocolate will act as ‘glue’ to hold the fruity pebbles on. Beginning with the red fruity pebbles, paint on a small amount of white chocolate then stick the red pebbles on. Continue this process until all of the red pebbles are on. Repeat with the rest of the colors – orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
- 10
Once the rainbow is finished, paint on some white chocolate underneath both ends of the rainbow and add the shredded coconut.
- 11
Enjoy and store the extras in an air tight container.