The Best Baked Donuts

These delicious, healthy baked donuts are exceptionally soft, fluffy, and easy to make. These donuts make a perfect breakfast, brunch, or even a midday snack. You consider these to be The Best Baked Donuts ever!

About These Donuts

• These donuts come together very easily and quickly. They take only a few minutes to prepare their batter and less than ten minutes to bake—well, maybe ten minutes to bake! Imagine preparing some breakfast for Mother's Day, and you want to add these to the breakfast table. How convenient.
• This recipe will give you twelve large donuts if you bake them in this pan. However, if you make them in small pans, you will have around 24 mini donuts.
• The one important fact about these donuts, which makes them The Best Baked Donuts, is that they are baked, and no deep frying is necessary. However, if you want to make traditional-style donuts, try this recipe.
• I rolled the donuts in cinnamon sugar in this recipe, but you can glaze them with plain or flavoured sugar glaze.

How To Make The Best Baked Donuts

• Sift All-purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, and Cinnamon. Set them aside.
• Whisk the Eggs, Sugar, Melted Butter, Milk, and Vanilla Extract until smooth and slightly light in colour.
• Add dry ingredients in two additions and gently mix. The batter will be fluffy and airy. Do not Overmix.
• Lightly grease the donut pan, pour the batter into the piping bag and cut the tip of the bag with scissors to an inch hole.
• Pipe the batter into the greased pan cavities to ⅔ of their capacity. It is important not to overfill the holes.

• Bake them for ten to twelve minutes. You can test their doneness by gently pressing their top; if it bounces, they are ready. Similarly, if an insert comes out clean, they are ready.
• Let The Best Baked Donuts cool in the pan for five minutes, then flip them to a cooling rack to cool down.
• Melt two tablespoons of butter and brush the donuts with butter using a bakery brush. This will help the cinnamon sugar stick to the donuts better.
• In a shallow bowl, mix the cinnamon and granulated sugar. Use your hand or another clean and dry brush to apply the sugar to the donuts while the butter is still warm.

Variations;

• You can glaze them with a plain sugar glaze. Mix powdered sugar, Milk, Vanilla Extract, and lemon juice. Dip the donuts into the glaze and place on the rack to drip off.
• The other option is to add a small amount of food colouring or fruit reduction to give the glaze some colour and flavour.
• These will taste really good if dipped in a chocolate glaze. The exact recipe is on the recipe card.
• Sprinkle these donuts with any sprinkles to make them more fun and seasonal.

See more related recipes here;

Baked Hazlenut Donuts,

Halloween Pumpkin Donuts,

Fluffy Lemon Donuts,

Pumpkin Donuts

Storing: Donuts are best served fresh and warm, but keep these donuts in an airtight container at room temperature for one day.

Disclaimer: I highly recommend using the measurements in grams & ml (instead of cups & spoons) for more accuracy and better results.

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