Donuts make the perfect treat on their own or look great when used on your cakes for decoration too. Covered in coloured glaze they can be made in any colour to match your theme. In this weeks video tutorial I’m showing you how to make these yummy baked donuts covered in a coloured glaze.
Just click below to watch the tutorial ⇩ or scroll to the bottom of this post for the full recipe and step by step instructions.
Baked donuts do have a slightly more cakey texture than fried donuts but these donuts are so easy to make and only take 10 minutes in the oven. By using a combination of baking powder and bicarbonate of soda, they have a really fluffy texture.
In this tutorial I’m covering my donuts in a coloured vanilla glaze, but they also taste amazing brushed with a little melted butter and tossed in some caster sugar, for a sugar donut instead.
Sprinkles
After coating my donuts in this pretty blue and purple glaze the best way to finish them off was with some fun sprinkles. I used the Sweet Mermaid mix by Happy Sprinkles as the colours matched perfectly.
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I had so much fun making these donuts and they were perfect to add onto the birthday cake I was making. To get the donuts to stand up on the top of your cake, you can fix them in place on a bamboo skewer and on the front just push them into the buttercream.
I really hope you enjoy making the recipe, whether your serving them on their own at a party or adding them onto your cakes!
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Glazed Baked Donut Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients For 12x Donuts
- 180 g Plain Flour
- 105 g Caster Sugar
- 1 Large Egg (65g)
- 115 g Salted Butter
- ¼ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 100 g Buttermilk
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Ingredients For Glaze
- 150 g Icing Sugar
- 2 tbsp Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla (or flavouring of your choice)
- Food Gel Colour of your choice
Instructions
- Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
- Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
- You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
- Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
- After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
- Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
- After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
- You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.
Notes
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