–peanut butter melts
When I was thinking about what kind of frosting could work for these donuts I knew I wanted something that would coat the top in a nice thick layer. Then the chocolate melts came to mind and I thought they would work great. When I got to the store and saw they had a peanut butter flavor, it was the perfect color and flavor. You could also do chocolate, or pastel cats.–whole almonds If you make these for some one with a nut allergy you will obviously need to sub the peanut butter melts with another flavor, and the almonds for something else like the melts cut into a triangle shape? I haven’t had a chance to experiment with this part but I’d love to hear if you have any other ideas that would work. ETA–Seanna Lea commented that candy corn might work for the ears and I think that’s a great idea! I’m going to give it a try next time I make them.
–plain cake donuts I went with plain cake donuts because they are nice and dense
2. Dip an almond into the candy melts and press into the donut, for the ears. Stick these into the freezer for a few seconds to harden the almond in place. At first I had tried just pushing the almond into the donut, but lost a couple of ears this way when I turned over and dipped the donuts. It’s worth the extra step to secure them in place.
3. Once the almonds are secure dip donuts down into the peanut butter melts, then turn back over and let sit on parchment paper until the coating is dry. This actually went pretty smoothly and easily. Just make sure you bowl is deep enough to easily dip the donuts with almonds sticking out of them.
4. Once they are completely dry you can use various icing to raw faces on your cats. You could use candy eyes, or just pipe little faces on. I used premixed/precolored frostings for these.
Good grief those are cute.
Thank you for sharing! I’ve been wanting to make cute animal donuts for ages and hadn’t tried to play around with it yet.
These are adorable! I hope you don’t mind if I add this to my Pinterest.
I feel weird because I don’t like peanut butter, but I’d make these with chocolate.
I’ve seen these on tumblr and I think they are adorable. I may try my hand at these in the next week or so. Thanks for sharing. ^_^
These are amazing! such an amazing idea and so cute
Adorable!
I nearly spit my coffee when I saw these! I’ve LOVED the pics I’ve seen of Japanese cat donuts (I even included one in my Donut Shop embroidery pattern!), but now I can make them! Thank you sooooo much! You’re really too awesome.
This is so rad! I’m going to try pastel kitties!
!! I can’t even express how much I love these. I’ve been waiting for the tutorial since I saw it on your instagram. Thank you so much for sharing!
These are really cute.
I wonder if candy corn would work well enough to make ears. Most of the candy corn I’ve seen isn’t as big as an almond.
I am so bookmarking this! What a super cute idea and not complicated either.
I’m wondering if a third almond on the back end would work for a tail?
Light chocolate or maple would be a good alternative for those of us who are allergic to peanut butter.
thanks Julie they were fun to make!
amanda, youre so welcome! I thought I’d share in case anyone else had been trying to come up with ways to coat them :)
thanks Jessica, I dont mind :)
Persephone, its not weird to not like peanut butter :) I think chocolate cats would be quite tasty!
Kerri, yay! I’d love to see!
thanks helen, now if only I could get over to Japan to buy a few there :) :)
Thanks Kellie!
Mollie, I know-they just make me want to get to japan even sooner! :)
Sarah, cant wait to see them!!
Cait, aw im so glad you like them!
Seanna, thats a great idea! I think candy corn might work pretty well actually! I’ll have to try that
Julie, yeah they are really pretty easy! I thought licorice for whiskers but that could work for a tail too, the thin rope kind
Suzanne, those are great ideas, and I love maple! I wonder if the melts dont come in maple-how hard it would be to flavor them with a maple flavoring. Ive never tried added flavored oils to them so im not sure if they would separate. Something to try for sure! But the melts do come in chocolate and vanilla, so those would be great too. If you can’t eat almonds someone suggested candy corn and I think that might work real well!
It’s so cute!
Those are awesome. I love cake donuts.
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i just absolutely ADORE these and am totally going to try to make them! when i saw the color i thought they were maple :)
Jane, I wish I could find maple melts, I love maple on donuts. I am thinking you might be able to flavor the vanilla melts with maple-ive just not tried flavoring the plain ones yet.
Rachel, me too! I actually like the plain ones the best!
thanks bloodyhell :)
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I love cats!!! these donuts cats love me!!! Your post I share it on my page http://artcreatiu.com/?p=2586 :)
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Thanks dunna!