Best Mini Doughnuts Recipes

MINI-DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Melt the 2 tablespoons shortening in a small saucepan. Set aside to cool slightly but remain liquid.
• In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the sugar and melted shortening together on medium speed. Add the egg and beat well. Add the evaporated milk and vanilla, continue beating until the mixture is light, about 2 minutes.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, mace, and salt into a medium bowl. Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture on low speed until just combined. The texture of the dough will be soft and loose. Turn dough out of the bowl onto a large piece of plastic wrap and wrap it well. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
• Roll the chilled dough out on a very lightly dusted workspace until it's about 1/2-inch thick. Dip the edges of a 2-inch round cutter in flour and cut the dough into discs. Place cut dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
• Heat about 2-inches of shortening in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat until a deep-fry thermometer reads 375 degrees F. Line a large plate with paper towels.
• Working in batches, fry the doughnuts, turning once, until they are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Transfer the doughnuts from the oil with a slotted spoon or skimmer to the prepared pan. Cool. Repeat with remaining dough, taking care the oil comes back to the correct temperature between each batch.
• For jelly filled doughnuts: Fill a pastry bag fitted with a plain tip with raspberry jam. Let the donut cool slightly. Make a small opening with the pastry tip and gently fill each donut with some of the jam. Dust with sugar as desired. Serve warm or at room temperature.
• For sugared doughnuts, roll the doughnuts in sugar or cinnamon sugar while they are still warm. For confectioners' sugared covered doughnuts allow the doughnuts to cool completely before rolling in the confectioners' sugar.

VEGAN MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a mini doughnut pan with cooking spray.
• Mix flour, baking soda, nutmeg, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Mix soy milk, vegetable oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl.
• Combine the flour mixture and the soy milk mixture and stir until smooth; pour into a mini doughnut pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until doughnuts are light brown and the tops spring back when touched, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Combine confectioners' sugar, soy milk, and vanilla extract together in a bowl; stir until glaze is combined.
• Dip doughnuts into glaze and cool on a wire rack.

BANANA-CHOCOLATE CHIP MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Generously coat a mini doughnut pan with cooking spray. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and the salt in a large bowl. Whisk the mashed bananas, yogurt, vegetable oil, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla in a separate bowl. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture until just combined; stir in the chocolate chips.
• Transfer the batter to a large resealable plastic bag and snip off one corner. Pipe the batter into the prepared pan, filling each cup almost all the way. Bake until golden brown, 7 to 8 minutes. Let cool in the pan2 to 3 minutes; remove the doughnuts to a rack to cool completely. Letthe pan cool, then coat with more cooking spray and repeat with the remaining batter.
• Put the melted butter in a shallow bowl. Mix the granulated sugar and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon in another shallow bowl. Dip one side of each doughnut in the butter, letting the excess drip off, then immediately dip it in the cinnamon sugar. Store in an airtight container up to 2 days.
• You can also make these in a mini muffin pan; bake 8 to 10 minutes.

MINI NUTELLA DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Whisk egg with water. On a lightly floured surface, roll each biscuit into a 6-in. circle; cut each into 4 wedges. Brush lightly with egg mixture; top each wedge with 1 teaspoon Nutella. Bring up corners over filling; pinch edges firmly to seal., In a large cast-iron or electric skillet, heat oil to 350°. In small batches, place doughnuts in hot oil, seam side down; fry until golden brown, 1-2 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels. Dust with confectioners' sugar; serve warm.

MINI MAPLE-GLAZED DOUGHNUTS WITH COCONUT "BACON"

Steps:

• For the coconut "bacon": Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix together the coconut chips, soy sauce, liquid smoke and maple syrup in a medium bowl. Spread in a single layer on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bake, stirring halfway through, until the coconut is golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside to cool. The "bacon" will crisp up as it cools.
• For the doughnuts: Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the almond milk and coconut oil. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• Pour the peanut or canola oil halfway up the sides of a cast-iron skillet and heat to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk together the flour, cane sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Make a well in the center and pour the hot milk mixture in the well. Mix until a thick dough forms. Roll portions of dough into 12 balls and use your thumb to make holes in the centers.
• Fry the doughnuts, in batches, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes on each side. Let drain on paper towels.
• Meanwhile, make the maple glaze: Stir together the confectioners' sugar, maple syrup, maple extract and salt in a small bowl. Dip the doughnuts in the glaze and sprinkle with the coconut "bacon" before serving.

BAKED MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease miniature muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl. Stir milk and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl. Beat butter and 1/3 cup white sugar together in a third bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; beat in egg.
• Stir flour mixture, alternating with milk mixture, into butter mixture until batter is smooth. Spoon batter into a piping bag and pipe into muffin cups, about 2/3-full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Mix 1/3 cup white sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl; add warm doughnuts and gently toss with hands until coated.

MINI CAKE DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F and lightly grease a mini doughnut pan.
• Sift the white spelt, rye, barley, and baking powder together. Whisk in the sugar, nutmeg, and salt. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted butter, milk, vanilla, and egg. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Do not overmix or your doughnuts may be rubbery.
• Fill each doughnut cup 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full with the batter. You can do this with a spoon, but I prefer using a piping bag to fill each cup evenly and cleanly. It's important not to overfill or as the doughnuts rise, you'll lose the hole. Bake until the doughnuts spring back when touched, 6 to 10 minutes depending on the size of your doughnut pan. Let cool completely on a wire rack; then dip in melted chocolate or dust with powdered sugar.

MINI CINNAMON DOUGHNUTS (SāTā ANDAGī INSPIRED) RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, beat the sugars and eggs together until smooth.
• Add in the melted butter and whisk until smooth.
• Sift in the flour, soybean flour and baking powder and mix together.
• Rest the dough for 30 minutes.
• Roll the dough into ping pong sized balls using your hands.
• In a deep saucepan, heat the oil to 190°C (370°F).
• Using a slotted spoon, carefully fry the balls in small batches.
• Transfer the doughnuts to a paper towel-lined plate.
• Prepare the cinnamon sugar by mixing the sugar and ground cinnamon together.
• Roll the doughnuts in the cinnamon sugar.
• Drizzle some brown sugar syrup on top.
• Enjoy!

CIDER MINI-DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Boil cider in a small heavy saucepan until reduced to about 1/3 cup, 12 to 15 minutes, then cool completely.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
• Whisk together reduced cider, buttermilk, butter, eggs, and 1 cup sugar in a small bowl. Stir into flour mixture until a dough forms (it will be sticky).
• Turn out dough onto a well-floured surface and pat out with lightly floured hands into a 13-inch round (about 1/3 inch thick). Cut out rounds with floured cutter and transfer to a floured baking sheet. Repeat with scraps (reroll only once).
• Heat oil to 370°F in a 5-quart heavy pot over medium heat. Slide 10 doughnuts into oil. When each doughnut floats to surface, turn over and fry, turning once more, until golden brown, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Drain on paper towels. Make more doughnuts, returning oil to 370°F between batches. Cool slightly; dredge in cinnamon sugar made from remaining cup sugar and remaining teaspoon cinnamon.

MINI SWEET-POTATO DOUGHNUTS WITH BROWN-BUTTER GLAZE

Steps:

• Make the doughnuts: Heat butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat until dark brown and fragrant, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in milk. Let cool slightly.
• Combine yeast, warm water, and 1/4 teaspoon granulated sugar in a mixer bowl. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk sweet-potato puree, egg, yolk, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, and remaining 3 tablespoons granulated sugar in a medium bowl. Whisk in butter mixture, then add to yeast mixture in mixer bowl. Attach bowl to mixer fitted with the dough-hook attachment, and mix on low speed. Slowly add flour until incorporated. Raise speed to medium-high, and beat until dough becomes elastic, about 3 minutes. Dough will be very soft.
• Transfer dough to an oiled bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Let stand until double in size, about 2 hours. Punch dough, then cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• On a generously floured surface, roll out dough to a 1/4-inch thickness. Using a 1 1/2-inch round cutter, cut out rounds. Using the wide end of a 1/2-inch round pastry tip, cut holes in center of each round. Transfer doughnuts and holes to generously floured baking sheets, and cover loosely with plastic. Let rise in a warm place for 45 minutes.
• Line wire racks with several layers of paper towels. Heat 4 inches of oil in a large, heavy pot until it reaches 365 to 370 degrees on a deep-fry thermometer. Fry doughnuts and holes in small batches until golden brown, about 20 seconds per side. (Adjust heat as needed to maintain temperature of oil.) Using a slotted spoon or a wire-mesh skimmer, transfer doughnuts and holes to paper towels to drain. Let cool slightly.
• Make the glaze: Heat butter in a medium saucepan until dark brown, about 10 minutes. Whisk in confectioners' sugar until a smooth paste forms, then gradually whisk in milk until thick and silky. Let stand for 10 minutes before using, whisking occasionally to keep glaze smooth.
• Pour glaze into a large, deep bowl. With tongs, dip doughnuts and holes into glaze, turning to coat. Remove, letting excess drip off before transferring to clean wire racks set over baking sheets. Let glaze harden before serving, about 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

SNICKERDOODLE MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• In medium bowl, mix 1/3 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter and eggs until smooth. Stir in milk, sour cream and vanilla with whisk. Stir in flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, cream of tartar and baking powder just until moistened.
• Grease medium bowl with shortening, turning dough to grease all sides. Place dough in bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 450°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. Place dough on generously floured surface. Roll dough in flour to coat. With floured rolling pin, roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut dough with floured 1 3/4-inch round cookie cutter. Place dough rounds on cookie sheets about 1 inch apart. Cut out centers using floured 3/4-inch round cookie cutter. Reroll scraps to cut additional doughnuts.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges just turn light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool 3 minutes.
• In small bowl, stir together 3/4 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons cinnamon. Place melted butter in another small bowl. Quickly dip both sides of each warm doughnut into butter; let excess drip off. Using spoon, roll each doughnut in cinnamon-sugar mixture to coat. Return doughnuts to cooling rack. Serve warm.

BAKED ITALIAN MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Lightly oil a mini doughnut pan with cooking spray. (You can also use mini muffin pans.)
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, milk, and vanilla until combined.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture until combined. Do not overmix.
• Transfer the batter to a piping bag with a large round tip and fill each doughnut well halfway.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Test for doneness (they should be crisp on the outside, moist on the inside). Transfer to a cooling rack or serve immediately to your guests to decorate.

COFFEE PUDDING WITH MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Make instant chocolate pudding using cooled coffee in place of half the milk, then divide among mugs and chill. Top with whipped cream and a mini doughnut or doughnut hole.

PALEO PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE CHIP MINI DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Whisk cassava flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and salt together in a medium bowl.
• Combine butter and coconut sugar in a separate medium bowl; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add pumpkin puree, chocolate chips, maple syrup, coconut milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined. Add flour mixture and mix until ingredients combine and form a thick batter.
• Preheat a doughnut maker according to manufacturers' instructions.
• Spoon batter into a pastry or a resealable plastic bag. Cut the tip off and pipe batter into the doughnut maker molds. Close the lid and bake according to manufacturer's instructions, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer doughnuts to a cooling rack and let cool completely.
• While doughnuts are cooling, heat chocolate chips and coconut oil in a double boiler until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Spoon glaze into a small bowl. Dip the top of each doughnut in chocolate glaze and return to the cooling rack. Drizzle any remaining chocolate on top. Let stand until glaze hardens, about 10 minutes.

MINI BAKED OREO DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 190, grease a 12 hole mini doughnut pan.
• Mix flour, baking powder and sugar
• Add in the buttermilk, egg, butter and vanilla extract. Combine till smooth.
• Stir in crushed oreos.
• Pour mixture into a piping bag and fill the doughnut pan.
• Bake for 5-6.
• For the topping sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and mix in the milk and vanilla extract until smooth.
• Dip donuts in glaze and sprinkle on crushed Oreo.

MINI ELF DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Brush some melted butter in the holes of a 24-hole mini muffin tin.
• Put the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar in a big bowl and mix together with your hands.
• Pour the melted butter into a jug with the egg, vanilla, maple syrup and buttermilk, and mix together with a fork.
• Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ones and use a big wooden spoon to mix until there are no lumps.
• Use teaspoons to divide the mixture between the holes in the tin. Bake in the oven for 8-10 mins, then cool in the tin.
• Now it's time to turn them into doughnuts. Once cool, carefully tip the cakes out. Sit each on a chopping board and push an apple corer into the centre to cut the middle out so you have a ring.
• Put the icing sugar and milk in a saucepan over a low heat. Whisk until runny and smooth. Divide the icing between three bowls, and mix a little green food colouring into one bowl, and a little red colouring into another.
• Sit the doughnuts on a wire rack (so the drips can fall off), then spoon a little icing onto each. Decorate with sprinkles and writing icing, if you like. As this glaze dries quickly, finish decorating one colour, then start the next colour. If the icing is not runny enough, put in the microwave for 10 secs and stir well. Will keep for 2 days.