Thrills and chills abound across L.A.’s sweet scene this October as local bakeries, ice cream parlors, and coffee houses prepare for Halloween with a frighteningly good selection of treats.
From the zombie donuts lurking in a 24/7 Koreatown donut shop to the witches’ finger cookies enchanting locals at an Atwater bakery, we’ve got the details on where to find this year’s creepiest confections and seasonal delights. You can count on Instagram-friendly California Donuts to perfect a creepy-cute Halloween aesthetic for the creatures of the night who line up outside this 24-hour Koreatown stand. The long-running, family-owned donut shop was already decked out in late September with smiling ghosts painted on the windows and perched atop the Orange Bang machine.
As for the Halloween treats, they are almost too cute to eat. At least, that’s the case if you think a donut graveyard with a fondant tombstone and a green toy hand popping out of cookie crumble dirt is cute. Other grim goodies include zombies iced in matcha green tea or taro.
More have been added since I visited, including an array of monsters, a “psycho” version of their famed panda donut and classic sprinkled donuts topped with marshmallow fondant ghosts. A post shared by The Donut Man (@donutmanca) Strawberry donuts are The Donut Man ’s claim to fame, but those aren’t the only seasonal treats at this local institution. With fall comes the pumpkin cream cheese donut.
It’s thick, fluffy, glazed and top.
