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Baked Donuts

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 8/14/15Updated: 3/02/23

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Baked donuts are a fun thing to do in the kitchen with the kids.  No hot oil is involved so it is safe!

Baked Donuts

Hi!  I’m Leigh Anne from Your Homebased Mom and I’m excited to be here today as part of the Crafting Chicks. I hope you will stop by for a visit over at my blog and check out all the pretty and delicious I am sharing over there.

I love spending time in the kitchen with kids.  They are always so excited and eager to try something new.  Because none of my children live at home any longer I have to borrow people’s children to play with in the kitchen.  They don’t seem to mind.

This summer I asked three of my favorite sisters what they wanted to learn how to make in the kitchen and donuts were at the top of their list. I decided baked donuts were the way to go rather than fried donuts.  It was also a hot summer day and baking seemed a better choice than frying. Whenever I am cooking with kids I like to have all the ingredients lined up for them out on the table.

Baked Donuts Ingredients

Kids love to measure ingredients and cracking eggs is always a popular activity.

Baked Donuts

We made a sour cream donut.  The sour cream helps make them nice and moist.

Baked Donuts

After the donut batter is mixed up we filled the donut pan.  This recipe made about a dozen donuts, may depend a little on how full they fill the pan. We placed the batter into a large zippered plastic bag to make the filling process easier.

Baked Donut Batter

Close up the bag and clip off a corner of the bag and let the kids fill the donut pan. No worries if they aren’t filled perfectly even – they will have fun doing it and when you are cooking with kids that is the first and most important rule – have fun!!

Filling the donut pan

The pan should be about 2/3 full of batter. They will puff up as they bake.

Baked Donuts

Let them cool on a cooling rack before icing.  While they are cooling mix up your glaze.  You want it just the right consistency so it stays on the donuts but is  nice and smooth.

Dipping Baked Donuts into glaze

Have all your toppings ready to go so you can add them as soon as you have glazed your donut.Glazed Baked DOnut

We had rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, mini M & M’s.

Baked Donut toppings.

I think decorating the donuts was the most fun for the kids!

Sprinkles on Baked DOnuts

It was fun to see the kid’s personalities reflected in their topping choices.  Some them just added one topping and others added them all to one donut!

Sprinkled, Glazed Baked Donuts

The girls little brother was also there patiently watching and waiting for a turn to decorate a donut!  I think he actually  had more fun eating handfuls of the toppings!!
Baked DonutsOf course the best part of any cooking project is the eating!

Baked Donuts

Have fun with the kids in the kitchen this summer and make Baked Donuts!

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Baked Donut Recipe

4.89 from 9 votes
Baked Donuts

Baked Donuts

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
Delicious baked cake donuts.  Easy enough for kids to make! 
serves: 9 donuts
Prep:15 minutes
Cook:15 minutes
Total:30 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 C sour cream
  • 2 egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 C canola oil
  • 1 C sugar
  • 2 C flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Glaze

  • 1 1/2 C powdered sugar
  • 3-4 Tbsp milk enough to make nice dipping consistency
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla or other flavoring of choice

Toppings

  • sprinkles mini chocolate chips, mini M & M's

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 and grease donut pan.
  • Mix together sour cream, egg, vanilla, oil and sugar in a bowl.
  • Add in flour, baking soda and salt and stir until combined.
  • Place batter into a large zippered plastic bag. Close and snip off corner.
  • Squeeze batter into donut pan.
  • Fill pan with batter (about 2/3 full) and bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown and top springs back when touched.
  • Remove from pan and allow to cool on wire rack.

Glaze

  • Mix together powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. Add enough milk to make a nice dipping consistency.
  • Dip donuts and then sprinkle with desired toppings.
  • Eat!

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 443kcal (22%) Carbohydrates: 64g (21%) Protein: 4g (8%) Fat: 18g (28%) Saturated Fat: 4g (25%) Cholesterol: 50mg (17%) Sodium: 306mg (13%) Potassium: 85mg (2%) Sugar: 42g (47%) Vitamin A: 220IU (4%) Vitamin C: 0.2mg Calcium: 43mg (4%) Iron: 1.5mg (8%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
Baked Donuts
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  1. Maria L Bain says

    Posted on 6/16 at 4:06 pm

    This recipe was the BEST! My grandkids loved making them with me and totally enjoyed eating them. So delicious and easy to make! Thank you for sharing your amazing recipe!

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  2. Marianna France says

    Posted on 8/6 at 5:36 pm

    We just used your recipe… 🙂 It was delicious.

    https://mariannafrances.com/2016/08/07/team-usa-square-donuts/

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  3. Iris says

    Posted on 4/4 at 3:12 am

    Hi
    I hve tried yr bread in the bag, & the chocolate cake.. Lovely recipes.
    For this donut, wht else can I use instead of sour cream?

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 4/4 at 7:56 am

      Glad you have enjoyed the other recipes. You could use Greek Yogurt

      Reply

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