It’s almost Father’s
Day and if you have a Dad that loves a sweet treat, then this is the place to
be because we are making mini donuts for Dad. You can wrap some up on a plate
and bring them to Dad for his Father’s Day treat this weekend.
You can use
one of those donut baking pans and do them in the oven, but these recipes will
work best if you have a mini donut maker like this.
We are
making three types of donuts, sour cream (plain), chocolate, and buttermilk
spice.
I mixed all
of the dry ingredients in separate bowls and then their corresponding wet
ingredients in other separate bowls. It makes it a lot easier when you start
doing all of your mixing.
The
following are the ingredients and instructions for each of the batters.
Sour Cream
Donuts:
1 ½ cups of flour
1/3 cup of sugar
1 Tbsp. of
baking powder
½ tsp. of salt
½ cup of
milk
¼ cup of
vegetable oil
¼ cup of
sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp.
vanilla
Stir all of
the dry ingredients together and in a separate bowl mix the wet. Add the dry
ingredients to your mixer’s bowl and then beat in the wet ingredients until
smooth. Make sure you don’t over mix.
Set aside.
Chocolate
Donuts:
1 ¼ cups of
flour
½ cup of
cocoa
½ cup of
sugar
1 Tbsp. of baking
powder
1 egg
¾ cup of
buttermilk or see buttermilk recipe below
¼ cup of
vegetable oil
1 tsp.
vanilla
Stir all of
the dry ingredients together and in a separate bowl mix the wet.
If you don’t
have buttermilk on hand, then you can make some up really quick. Just add 2 ¼ tsp.
of lemon juice or white vinegar into a glass measuring cup and then add enough
milk to equal ¾ cup. Let it stand for 5-10 minutes.
Add the dry
ingredients to your mixer’s bowl and then beat in the wet ingredients until
smooth. Make sure you don’t over mix. Set aside.
Buttermilk
Spice Donuts:
1/3 cup of
vegetable oil
1 cup of
sugar
2 eggs
1 ¼ cups of
buttermilk
½ tsp. of
vanilla
2 cups of
flour
4 tsp. of
baking powder
½ tsp. of
baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1 tsp.
cinnamon
Once again
mix all of the dry ingredients together. Beat together the oil and eggs and
then stir in the buttermilk (follow the above recipe for homemade buttermilk;
even though it calls for 1 ¼ cups still make the above amount seen in the Chocolate
Donut recipe).
Now add the
wet into the dry ingredients and mix until smooth being careful not to over
mix.
After making
your batter(s), you can now start cooking the donuts. If you have a mini donut maker,
be sure to follow the instructions for cooking that comes with it. I preheat
mine as according to the instructions and then I brush on a little oil so they
don’t stick. I scoop in about a tablespoon of batter into each of the molds and
cook for 3-4 minutes.
Cool the donuts on a wire rack as you continue to bake
the rest.
While all
the donuts are cooling down, you can make the glazes.
You can put
whatever glaze on whatever type of donuts you want. We put a vanilla glaze on some
of the sour cream donuts and a chocolate glaze on some too and then we put a chocolate
glaze on the chocolate donuts and dusted the buttermilk ones with cinnamon and
sugar.
Vanilla
Glaze – Melt ¼ cup of butter and then add 1 1/3 cups of icing sugar and stir
until well blended. Stir in the vanilla and blend in 1 Tbsp. of hot water.
Chocolate
Glaze – Whisk ¾ cups of icing sugar with 2 Tbsp. of cocoa, 2 Tbsp. of half and
half, and 1 tsp. of vanilla until well mixed.
To ice/glaze
the donuts, we just dipped the tops in the glaze that we wanted so that the
tops got completely covered. Depending how thick you make the glaze, you could
spread it on with a knife also.
Cinnamon
Topping – Just mix 1 cup of sugar with 2 Tbsp. of cinnamon and mix well. We
made the buttermilk donuts last and while they were still warm, we brush them with a little bit of melted butter and then dip the tops in the sugar mixture. If you want
the entire donut covered, brush the donuts all over with butter and then put
your sugar mix in a brown paper bag and toss the donuts in there so that they
get covered.
The finished
products...
If you don't have a donut maker, but still want to make some donuts for your dad, then try this recipe for mini
Snickerdoodle Donut Muffins. We tried it a couple months ago, and it was pretty yummy!
