Baked Doughnuts

These baked doughnuts where a HUGE hit in my house!!!   I made a plain doughnut recipe and a chocolate recipe then topped them with different toppings.  They where very moist and flavourful.   

Plain Vanilla Doughnut

2 cups cake flour

1 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

3/4 cup butter milk

2 large eggs

2 Tbsp melted butter

1 tsp vanilla 

Preheat oven to 375.  Grease (really good) your doughnut pan.  In a large mixing bowl sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.  Stir in buttermilk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla. Beat until combined.  Pour your batter (it can be thick) into a pipping bag or a large ziplock bag with the corner snipped off.  Pipe into the doughnut pan 2/3 full and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the top of the doughnuts spring back when lightly touched.  Cool for 5 minutes in pan then invert onto a cooking rack.  Cool completely before decorating. 

* If you don't have any buttermilk in your fridge you can make it by adding 1Tbsp of vinegar to your 3/4 cup of milk and let it sit for about 5 minutes. 

Chocolate Doughnut

1 3/4 cups cake flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt 

3/4 cup butter milk

2 large eggs

2 Tbsp melted butter

1 tsp vanilla 

Same directions as above :) 

Toppings.  

Crunchy Coconut 

Toast coconut in a pan until slightly brown.  Create a simple glaze of icing sugar and milk until a runny consistency.  Dip your chocolate doughnuts into the glaze and then into your toasted coconut. 

Vanilla sprinkles

Melt down some white chocolate or I like to use Make your own Almond Bark vanilla.  Dip doughnut in melted chocolate then top with sprinkles.  

Chocolate sprinkles

Melt down some chocolate or Make your own almond bark Chocolate.  Dip doughnut in melted chocolate then top with sprinkles.