Baked Mini Cake Doughnuts with Maple Glaze {Recipe} (2024)

FAQs

What is maple donut icing made of? ›

The glaze is pretty simple. Butter, real maple syrup, powdered sugar, and then plenty of vanilla. Not too strong, not too sweet, but just right. Especially when dipped into or drizzled over warm maple doughnuts.

These baked maple glazed donuts are spiced cakey-style donuts with a thick and rich maple icing on top.

Sometimes, a homemade glaze winds up far too thin and runny for your donut. To combat this texture, all you have to do is incorporate a little bit more of one-star ingredient. Namely, powdered sugar is the key to thickening any donut glaze.

What is in a doughnut cake, you ask? How do you make one? Well, you need three dozen Krispy Kreme Original Glazed® Doughnuts, a whole lotta whipped cream, and homemade chocolate fudge sauce. Easy enough right?

Icing is a little thinner than frosting and is often poured or piped over coffee cakes, pound cakes, doughnuts and cookies—and it usually hardens when it dries. Glaze is the thinnest and most fluid of the three, and it will set but won't harden as much as icing.

Glaze or fill as follows, and serve as soon as possible. Whisk together 2 cups powdered sugar, ¼ cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth. When the doughnuts are cool enough to handle, dip into the glaze; if you like, flip them so the tops they're completely covered. Put on racks to let the glaze harden.

Description. RAISED DOUGHNUT WITH MILK CHOCOLATE GLAZE, TOPPED WITH SHORTBREAD CRUMB, FILLED WITH CARAMEL AND HALF A SHORTBREAD BISCUIT. Contains gluten, milk, eggs, soya, nuts.

It isn't uncommon to hear these popular donuts referred to as 'Amish crack,' a nickname used because of the addictively delicious combination of caramel and cinnamon powdered sugar that sits atop a soft yeast donut.

In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves together until well combined. In another large bowl, pour the melted butter, light brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs, vanilla extract, sour cream and milk.

Store them properly: To keep your donuts fresh for as long as possible, store them in an airtight container at room temperature. This will help prevent them from drying out or becoming stale. Freeze them: If you want to make your donuts last even longer, you can freeze them.

What makes doughnut soft and fluffy? ›

How to Make Super Soft and Fluffy Sugar Glazed Doughnuts | Fried or Baked. There's only one way to make doughnuts even softer and fluffier and that is by scalding some of the flour. Scalding is a technique used to not only make bread softer, but also to make it stay soft for longer.

PIC Instant Glaze-Up is an effective stabilizer solution formulated specifically for old fashion pressure cut, bench cut, and retail donut applications to prevent cracking, separation, and weeping.

We recommend approximately 4 mini donuts per person, but that may vary depending on your particular event and what other items, if any, you may be serving. All mini donut packages are available with any amount of available flavor options and include all paired dipping sauces!

The use of baking powder (which includes baking soda) results in much smaller air pockets within the donut, so cake donuts are denser and can absorb more moisture (which is why some people claim they're better for dunking in coffee). They're softer and less chewy, too, sometimes with a very lightly crunchy exterior.

Glazed doughnuts are light and fluffy with a sweet, shiny coating, while cake doughnuts are more dense and moist with a cake-like texture. Both types of doughnuts are delicious, and their choice often comes down to personal preference.

The secret to Krispy Kreme doughnuts is of course the sweet glaze, and this is achieved by bathing the doughnuts in a glaze of icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk, for a thicker glaze increase the quantity of icing sugar by a few spoons.

The rich, buttery flavor of maple is a fun twist on regular sweet icing and a nice way to keep a donut just as sweet but slightly funky, too. It's the vanilla frosted with sprinkles donut, but with a maple tinge to the frosting and no sprinkles.

Maple sugar is a natural sweetener that's relatively straightforward to make. For homemade maple sugar, boil maple syrup until it forms granulated sugar crystals, resulting in a sugar infused with maple flavor.

Maple leaf candy is an authentic sweet with just two ingredients: maple syrup and butter. It doesn't get much simpler—or sweeter—than that. Maple syrup is boiled, mixed with just a bit of butter, and then molded into beautiful leaf-shaped candies.