Demonic foods in NYC

Blackout Doughnut | Doughnut Plant

The spooky scoop: Abandon all hope—of sticking to a diet—before venturing into this Lower East Side temptation lair dedicated to the dark arts of doughnut making. These tasty heresies range from square yeast doughnuts plumped with seasonal jellies to fragrant, lavender-flavored varieties to the fiendish blackout.

Frighteningly delicious?  A moist, midnight-hued chocolate doughnut is filled with gooey chocolate pudding, before being showered with crumbled bits of pure evil better known as devil's food cake.

Doughnut Plant (379 Grand St., 212-505-3700)