Pokéball Donuts Pictorial

Easy, No-Bake Dessert for Pokémon Birthday Parties and Beyond

If you read my Lazy Mom’s Pokémon Birthday Party guide, you know that I’m all about simplifying in 2020. And one of my favorite shortcuts, as you have seen before here, is semi-homemade desserts.

I start with a store-bought base, like simply frosted cupcakes or in this case, vanilla frosted donuts. Then I embellish and decorate to my heart’s content without the hassle of baking cupcakes and scratch-making frosting. (Even though my white chocolate buttercream recipe is to die for.)

These Pokéball donuts began as vanilla frosted Dunkin Donuts. But ordinary donuts can be transformed into theme party genius in less than 30 minutes — no baking and no cake decorating skills required! Here’s the visual how-to:

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Ingredients

Vanilla frosted Dunkin Donuts (or any other white frosted donut)
Red cookie icing
White chocolate melting wafers or black candy melts
Tube of black frosting
Red sugar sprinkles
Small plastic Pokemon figures (optional, but definitely worth the expense in my opinion – they double as party favors!)
Icing spatula

Step-by-Step Tutorial

Assemble your supplies. Pro tip: To maximize your time, consider only frosting half of the donuts into Pokeballs, and leaving the other half plain. The plain ones may be more adult-friendly (because gobs of black frosting, ugh), and the contrasting pattern of the two make the Pokeballs stand out.

Start by outlining one-half of the donut with the red cookie icing. Tip: To keep your hands clean, work with the red part of the donut down. Then, rotate when donuts are done (I’m told the red part of the Pokeball is always on top.)

Add thick squiggle of red icing. Don’t apply this too liberally, or it will drip down the sides of the donut. You can always add extra if the coverage is too thing.

Use your icing spatula or spreader knife to evenly spread the red icing. The icing will smooth out as it sets, so worry about adequate coverage rather than perfect smoothness.

Immediately follow by covering with red sanding sugar or sugar sprinkles for an extra glittery effect. This also hides any imperfections in your frosting job!

Do one donut at a time, rather than an assembly line, as the cookie icing starts to set quickly and the sprinkles won’t stick if the icing has already set.

Next, place a white chocolate melting wafer or black candy melt upside down (so that flat side is facing up) loosely into the center of the donut hole. Press down so that wafer is in place but not so hard that it pops through. It should be resting snugly in the donut hole.

Apply a line of black icing directly from the tube across one half of the donut first, and then the other. If you have decorating tips, a simple tip would work great here, but if you don’t have them, I made do without!

If you used a black melting wafer for the center, you’re done once you’ve piped the line across both halves. If your center is still white, fill in the center with a swirl of black icing.

Smooth any imperfections with the icing spatula and allow to sit uncovered for about 15 minutes to set.

Embellish plain frosted donuts by adding a Pokemon figure to the center of each.

It’s easiest to transport these in the box they came in, so put them back into the box and get ready for some excited kids when you bring them out for dessert!