Maple Glazed Cinnamon & Sugar Donuts

By vealam

Ingredients

• Donuts:
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda (US read: baking soda)
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg (lightly beaten)
• 1/3 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 1/2 tbsp maple syrup
• Topping:
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup sugar (I used 3 parts white sugar and 1 part Demerara/raw sugar)
• 1/4 cup butter
• Glaze:
• 1/4 c butter
• 8 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 1/4 cup icing sugar
• handful chopped pecans to finish

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from aspiringkennedy.com

Preparation

Step 1

1) Preheat the oven to 400F
2) Mix together all the dry ingredients for your donuts in a bowl. Make a hole in the centre and pour in all the wet ingredients. Fold together until combined.
3) Transfer the donut batter to a piping bag or cut a 1/2 inch hole in the tip of a plastic bag and pipe into the shapes in your donut pan, making sure you don’t over fill in order to keep a hole in the middle.
4) Bake for 7-8 minutes until golden brown.
5) While baking combine the cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and mix.
6) Once out of the oven, while the donuts are still warm, melt the butter and brush over all sides of each donut, then dipping each in the sugar mixture afterwards.
7) Then make the glaze by melting the butter and stirring the maple syrup and icing sugar in. Keep stirring until it reaches a smooth, creamy consistency. I transferred the glaze into a squeeze bottle to then create lines over the donuts but you could do this part however you want.
8)Scatter the chopped pecans on top while it’s still wet.