Baked Doughnuts

By srumbel

These Baked Doughnuts are the perfect weekend breakfast treat! So if your family loves sweets for breakfast, tempt them with these scrumptious, fresh Baked Doughnuts. They are fluffy, have the flavor of doughnuts, and have just the right amount of sweetness.
By: Sheila Shah | Sweet Baked Life

Ingredients

• Doughnuts:
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• 2 large eggs
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• Glaze:
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• Red food coloring

Preparation

Step 1

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a doughnut pan with non-stick spray and set aside.

To make the doughnuts: Into a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and granulated sugar and whisk until combined.

Then in a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, yogurt, and egg until fully combined. Add the melted butter and vanilla, and whisk until smooth. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, then pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir gently with a spoon until just combined. The batter will be very thick, do not over mix.

Using a large zip baggie, spoon batter into the bag, seal, cut corner off the bottom of one side, and pipe the batter into each doughnut opening. Fill to about 3/4 full. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned and spring back when lightly pressed. Cool the doughnuts slightly on a wire rack, then repeat the baking process until you use all the batter. Note, this recipe yields 16 doughnuts.

To make the glaze: add the milk, confectioners sugar and vanilla into a medium saucepan over low heat. Whisk until the glaze is fully combined and smooth. Note, if it seems too thick add a bit more milk, or if too runny, add more confectioners’ sugar.

Remove glaze from heat and pour half into a small bowl. To the bowl of glaze, add a couple of drops of red food coloring to create a pink color. Then take the doughnuts and dip them into the warm icing one by one. Do half your doughnuts in the colored glaze and half in the white glaze.

Place glazed doughnuts onto a wire rack over waxed paper to catch the drippings. Repeat until you have all the doughnuts covered. Then, dip each doughnut again in their respective glaze for a doubly delicious treat! Then with the tines of a fork (or you can use a plastic squeeze bottle), drizzle the pink doughnuts with the white glaze and drizzle the white doughnuts with the pink glaze. Store in an airtight container.