Making my glazed baked donut recipe at home is easier than you think. Skip going to your local bakery and make these easy glazed baked donuts. Easy pantry ingredients makes one of our favorite recipes.
My kids love getting donuts at the local bakery shop. It has become a tradition to go to our local donut shop on Saturday morning for their delicious donuts. So I decided that we needed to try and make them at home.
These baked donuts are made completely from scratch. This recipe would be perfect to have on Christmas morning or for a weekend brunch. The flavor is amazing and the delicious glaze makes them the ultimate treat.
This simple recipe gives you the bakery donuts that you crave on the weekend without all the rolling, cutting or frying the donuts. The benefit of making it from scratch is you can customize to your liking.
Making glazed baked donuts has never been easier. You probably have everything you need in your pantry to make these glazed donuts. What I love is that using a donut pan makes it easy to make these donuts.
No need to roll out the dough, you basically just mix together the ingredients and pour in the prepared pan.
These donuts are soft, almost cake-like texture, that are not overly sweet. The added vanilla glaze adds just the right amount of sweetness that tops off these donuts perfectly.
Plus there is no yeast in this recipe, so you don’t have to wait for them to rise.
Ingredients
For the Donuts:
- All Purpose Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Butter, melted
- Egg
- Milk
- Vanilla Extract
Vanilla Glaze:
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Salt
- Milk
How to Make Baked Donuts
- Step 1 – Heat Oven and Prepare Pan – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a donut pan with non stick cooking spray.
- Step 2 – Combine Dry Ingredients – In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the four, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Step 3 – Combine Wet Ingredients – In a separate large bowl, stir together the melted butter, egg, milk and vanilla extract.
- Step 4 – Mix dry and wet ingredients together – Gradually add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined (do not over mix).
- Step 5 – Pour into donut pan – Pour the mixture evenly into the donut pan filling each one about halfway full. I find that it’s easiest to use a piping bag to fill the donut pan or place the batter in a large ziplock bag and cut the corner off the bag to pipe the batter into the pan.
- Step 6 – Bake Donuts – Then bake for 10-13 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of the donuts comes out clean. Let the donuts cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to Make the Glaze
- Step 1 – Combine Powdered Sugar and Salt – In a medium bowl, whisk together the powder sugar and salt.
- Step 2 – Add in Vanilla and Milk – Then stir in the vanilla extract and gradually add about ½ tablespoon of milk until the glaze is the consistency that you desire.
- Step 3 – Add Food Coloring – Add food coloring to the glaze at this time if you prefer.
- Step 4 – Dip donuts into Glaze – Dip the cooled doughnuts in the icing covering about half of the donuts. Then top with the sprinkles at this time. These are optional but the kids love them.
- Step 5 – Allow donuts to cool – Let the donuts cool on a cooling rack (so the glaze can set) for approximately 30 minutes before serving.
- Step 6 – Serve and Enjoy – Serve and enjoy these glaze donuts.
Expert Tips
- Serving Donuts – These donuts are best served warm. But will keep fresh in an air tight container at room temperature for up to 3-4 days.
- Freezing Donuts – You can freeze these donuts for up to about 2 months. Once you are ready to serve, put the donuts in the refrigerator to thaw and then heat in microwave if you want them warm.
- Pastry Bag – For ease of putting the dough in the donut tins, place your dough in a pastry bag.
- Filling Donut Pan – Fill the baking pan about ¾ full for the perfect size of donut.
- Allow to Cool – Let your donuts cool completely before putting on the glaze.
- Add extra glaze – Try even double dunking the donuts in the glaze. It is so good with that extra icing.
Can I Make Them Without a Donut Pan?
Yes, you can make donuts without a donut pan. If you have aluminum foil in a muffin pan, then you can use it to make your favorite baked donuts.
- Take a square piece of aluminum foil and press over one of your fingers. It needs to be large enough to cover a cup in the muffin pan.
- Then press the aluminum foil into the muffin cup with a partial part sticking up to create a hole in the center of the donut.
- Spray the muffin tine with cooking spray as well as the almunium foil.
- After preparing the donut batter, then you are ready to pour into the foil lined muffin pan.
Toppings
- Add Food Coloring to Glaze – The vanilla glaze is perfect for this donut recipe. You can also add some food coloring to the glaze if one of your kids is wanting a pink donut.
- Sprinkles – We also love adding Sprinkles to our donuts. If you are making them for Christmas morning, add some Christmas sprinkles. Whatever holiday or birthday it is, your kids will love the extra sprinkles on their donuts.
- Cinnamon and Sugar – You can also make a cinnamon and sugar mixture by adding it to melted butter and dunk your donuts in that mixture before serving.
Why you will love this recipe
- Pantry Ingredients – We love that these baked ingredients are simple and we always have the ingredients on hand.
- Quick and Easy to Make – When I say this is an easy recipe to make, I mean it. The process is pretty straight forward. You don’t dirty a bunch of pans and staple ingredients is all you need.
- Baked and not fried – We love that they are baked and not fried.
- Amazing Texture – The texture is light and fluffy. It is almost like a cake but in donut form.
- Change the Topping – Feel free to change the topping and add sprinkles or different color of glazes.
How to Store
Baked donuts are best served the same day. But you can store an air tight container and enjoy within 1 to 2 days.
Can you Freeze Them
Yes, you can freeze baked donuts. We recommend freezing without the glaze and place in a freezer safe container. These donuts will last about 4 months in the freezer.
Baked Donut Recipe
Ingredients
For the Donuts:
- 1 cup Flour
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 2 Tbsp Butter melted
- 1 Egg
- ½ cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
For the Vanilla Glaze:
- ½ cup Powdered Sugar
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1-2 Tbsp Milk
- Food Coloring and Sprinkles optional
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Instructions
For the Donuts:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a donut pan with non stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together 1 cup flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, and ½ tsp salt.
- In a separate bowl, stir together 2 Tbsp melted butter, 1 egg, ½ cup milk, and 1 tsp vanilla extract.
- Gradually add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined (do not over mix).
- Pour the mixture evenly into the donut pan filling each one about halfway full. I find that it’s easiest to use a piping bag to fill the donut pan or place the batter in a large ziplock bag and cut the corner off the bag to pipe the batter into the pan.
- Then bake for 10-13 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of the donuts comes out clean. Let the donuts cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
For the Glaze:
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together ½ cup powdered sugar and ¼ tsp salt.
- Stir in ½ tsp vanilla extract and gradually add 1–2 Tbsp milk until the glaze reaches your desired consistency.
- Add food coloring to the glaze at this time if you prefer.
- Dip the cooled doughnuts in the icing covering about half of the donuts. Then top with the sprinkles at this time.
- Let the donuts cool (so the glaze can set) for approximately 30 minutes before serving.
- Then enjoy!
I’ve made these multiple times and everyone loves them. I’ve even used buttermilk instead of milk and they are a hit.
Can they be stored in the freezer and thawed and iced later? I have a big event coming up and need to make a surplus of these but don’t have an oven big enough to make more than 12 at a time. I’d like to make a couple batches per day and freeze them. Then glaze them they do of the event.
Haley – Yes, you can freeze baked donuts. We recommend freezing without the glaze and place in a freezer safe container. These donuts will last about 4 months in the freezer.
These came out awesome. Such a simple recipe. Lightly sweet goodness.
Jennifer – I’m so glad you enjoyed it. We love these donuts too.
These were delicious! We made them using a mini donut iron and they turned out so light & fluffy!
Sooo good! I’ve made them 3 days in a row now. The family loves these.