Baked Mini Cake Doughnuts with Maple Glaze {Recipe} (2024)

FAQs

What is maple glaze made of for donuts? ›

The glaze is pretty simple. Butter, real maple syrup, powdered sugar, and then plenty of vanilla. Not too strong, not too sweet, but just right. Especially when dipped into or drizzled over warm maple doughnuts.

You can successfully make a doughnut pan out of a muffin pan and aluminum foil. The doughnuts were perfectly moist, fluffy and delicious. They'll be smaller than your standard doughnut and certainly not uniform in shape, but the taste is all there.

They are healthier than fried donuts. The donuts are moist and fluffy, with a slightly crispy exterior. They are versatile. You can customize the recipe to your liking by adding different flavors of glaze or toppings.

A BASE GLAZE is a mixture of these three basic groups: SILICA, FLUX AND ALUMINA.

Powdered sugar thickens and emulsifies the glaze, helping it harden once it's cool. A pinch of salt sharpens the flavors if using unsalted butter.

We recommend approximately 4 mini donuts per person, but that may vary depending on your particular event and what other items, if any, you may be serving.

The Obvious Difference

Yeast doughnuts, as the name clearly spells out, are made from dough leavened with yeast (think brioche), whereas cake doughnuts are traditionally made from a kind of cake batter that uses a chemical leavener (i.e. baking powder or baking soda).

What kind of batter: Donuts are typically made with either yeast or cake batter. Airier yeast donuts usually have fewer calories than cake donuts, which have a denser texture.

The texture is more compact and there isn't the distinctive taste of deep frying. The color is also much paler. The taste overall was good and if you aren't into the calories of deep frying and the extra step and clean up, these are an acceptable substitute.

All you need is a cupcake pan and some regular old tin foil! Cut the foil into a 4 x4 square and bend gently around your middle finger. Remove your finger and press the shape you're left with into the muffin tin. The results: You're left with a perfect donut hole shaped tin that yields you round baked donuts.

Can you use a muffin tin to make donuts? ›

We've got donuts on the brain. But sometimes you just don't want to leave the house, even if it is for a perfect, sugary treat. Thank goodness for this recipe from Cook's Country. You just pop the dough in a muffin tin -- no special equipment needed for these fantastic crowd-pleasers.

We have found that peanut oil or vegetable shortening yield the best texture for donuts, with shortening producing the crispest exteriors.

Types of Donuts

Yeast donuts are leavened with yeast (shocker!), and are light and airy. Cake donuts are chemically leavened using baking powder or baking soda. These donuts have a more dense, chewy, cake-like crumb. These donuts are often baked, as shown here, but may also be fried.

Some Dunkin' locations bake their donuts in house, but not all. There are three ways Dunkin' locations can acquire donuts, according to TikTok user and franchise owner Amir Mohamed.

Glaze or fill as follows, and serve as soon as possible. Whisk together 2 cups powdered sugar, ¼ cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth. When the doughnuts are cool enough to handle, dip into the glaze; if you like, flip them so the tops they're completely covered. Put on racks to let the glaze harden.

For Icing: In saucepan mix butter, brown sugar and milk. Bring to boil and simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat and cool for 15 minutes. Add mapleine and then powdered sugar and blend well.

You can usually count on a honey substitute to work well in baked good recipes. If the honey you're replacing is in a sauce, a glaze or marinade for meat or vegetables, use maple syrup in its place. It'll act in much the same way, even if it changes the flavor of the dish a bit.

Lastly, Krispy Kreme's new maple flavor will make an appearance Sept. 20-26 with three maple-centric doughnuts. Covered in a glaze made with real maple syrup, you'll find maple glazed, maple glazed original filled maple Kreme and a maple cake doughnut.