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Donuts are at the top of the trending list when it comes to dessert. Why not make your own with this amazingly easy recipe?! Letโs get this party started! Choose your cake type, food coloring, sprinklesโthe possibilities are endless.
Bust out your donut pan and follow the cake-box directions, make sure to spray the pan with non stick cooking spray. Put your batter in a piping bag and fill up your donut pan with cake batter. The glaze is where you can get creative. Play with food coloring and sprinkle mixes, and youโll have picture-worthy pastries.ย
Make sure you invite all of your best friends over to celebrate spring kicking off, because this recipe makes 18!ย
Fun styling tip: ย Surprise as a gift and place 6 to 12 donuts in a beautiful box and surprise your loved ones in style!
EASY CAKE-BATTER DONUT RECIPE
**Makes 18 donuts
Ingredients
-Cake batter
-Glaze: 1 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
1.5 cups powdered sugar
2.5 tbsp. milk
–Food coloring (your choice of color)
-Sprinkles
Directions
-Preheat oven to 350F
-Spray donut pan with Cooking Spray
-Make cake batter (mix according to box directions)
-Put batter in piping bag or large zip bag and snip the end
-Squeeze batter into prepared donut pan, filling each well halfway
-Bake donuts for 14 minutes, then cool before removing from pan
-Glaze: Mix butter, sugar, food coloring, and milk until uniform. Dip each donut and turn sideways to let extra glaze run off. (Make sure donuts are cooled before glazing.)
Used Bakers Joy, came out perfect!
Used Pam baking spray with powder – came out perfectly
My donuts stuck to the pan even though I used Pam. I’m new at this so any suggestions?
Oh no! I have never had this happen before. I am so sorry to hear. I wonder if it’s the pan or oven?
My doughnuts fell apart when I picked it up? Why?
These did not work for me at all! Way to crumbly and fell apart ?