Description
baked cake donuts flavored with vanilla and almond extracts and rolled in cinnamon sugar
Ingredients
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Donut Batter
- 1 1/2 C All Purpose Flour
- 1 C Bread Flour
- 2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 C (1stick) Unsalted Butter (Room Temp)
- 1 C Granulated Sugar
- 3/4 C Light Brown Sugar
- 2 Lg Eggs (Room Temp)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tsp Almond Extract
- 1 1/4 C Milk
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
- 1/4 C Butter (Melted)
- 1/2 C Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 C Light Brown Sugar
- 2 TBSP Cinnamon
Chocolate Ganache (Optional)
- 1/2 C Heavy Cream
- 1/2 C Chocolate Chips (or any melting chocolate cut into small pieces.)
Instructions
Donuts
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Sift flour, bread flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Add vanilla and almond extract to the milk. Set aside.
- Add butter to the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and start to cream. With the mixer running, pour in the sugars. Continue to cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy – about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, until combined.
- Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the milk starting and ending with dry ingredients. (Add 1/3 of dry ingredients, mix. Add 1/2 of the milk, mix. Continue until you add the last 1/3 of dry ingredients.
- Mix until just combined, do not overmix.
- Pipe (or pour) batter into prepared donut pan and bake for 13-14 minutes.
- Allow to cool on wire baking sheet while you prepared the cinnamon coating
Coating Donuts
- Melt butter, and brush each donut with a light coating of butter. (Or just dip them, making sure to get butter along the sides)
- Roll donuts in the cinnamon sugar
Chocolate Ganache
- Heat cream in a small stockpot or in the microwave for 1 minute.
- Add chocolate to the warm cream and stir until chocolate is melted and combined.
- Dip those donuts and enjoy!
Notes
* You can use 2 1/2 C of all purpose flour if you don’t have bread flour on hand. The bread flour gives the donuts a little more density and chew while using all purpose only will give them a lighter consistency more the texture of a cupcake.