Brunch Crawl Donut Bar

A couple of weeks ago, I hosted

a stop on my family brunch crawl.

I decided for my stop to serve up

some homemade baked donuts and

coffee. The donuts varied from

cookes and creme chocolate donuts,

to simple sprinkle donuts, to my

personal favorite, the 

unicorn donut!..

or as my little cousins like to

call them, mermaid donuts!

I'll take either one!

Something came over me while

I was baking away in the kitchen, and 

I decided to try my hand at trying to

create a marble look with the icing.

It was much easier than I expected 

and I was completely obsessed with 

the results!

 Cake Donut and icing recipe 

To create the marble look

, i made

the icing recipe according to instruction 

and made my base color using the pink pastel

dye. Then, taking my marble color,

I dropped VERY tiny drops into the

mix. taking a fork, I carefully began

the drag the color across the mixture

until I got the desired look.

Then I took the cooled donuts,

and dipped the tops on top of the mixture

and then pulled them back up and placed

on my parchment paper. I decided to add

some fun star sprinkles for extra

decoration!

Next, I needed a way to display the 

donuts for the party. I had bought some

Cake stands to use, but wanted the 

table to have some variety. After

resorting to Pinterest for some inspiration

i ran across some wooden donut stands.

So I decided to make my own.

I bought the wooden pendants and 

sticks from my local Hobby Lobby.

Using a 3/4 inch drill bit, I drilled holes

into the bottoms of the pendant.

to keep the stick in place, I used

some Sugru to hold them together!

Once they were assembled, I painted them

Pastel colors to match the other 

decorations I had bought.

Time to put the party together!

Stay Tuned for more details from

the Brunch Crawl!

Cheers!

fox + gypsy