Mini Donut Test Kitchen
Remember when I made mini-donuts and promised you a recipe? And then never gave you one? Well, today I decided to keep my word. I got up, made some tea, and set to work. My house is covered in donuts!
My first attempt wasn’t a complete failure, but I wasn’t happy with the result. They didn’t rise very well, leaving one side of each donut flat and craggy. It’s not that I expected a recipe I made up to work on the first try, but I was still hoping to get lucky.
I did get lucky on my second try. I reduced the fat content and upped the soy milk and the baking powder. Success! They rose much better, had a nicer texture, and were prettier. Here are the two tries side-by-side:
Much better, huh? Below is the recipe for the donuts and the glaze, directions for glaze, pictures of the whole process, and even a video.
Oh, and did I mention? There’s chocoalte coated ones, too!
Mini Baked Donuts
Make 20 Donuts
Dry Ingredients:
1 Cup All Purpose Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp (scant) Nutmeg
1 tiny pinch or shake Cinnamon
Wet Ingredients:
1/2 Cup Soymilk
1/2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
Egg Replacer for 1 Egg
4 Tbs Earth Balance
Preheat oven to 350º F
In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients with a whisk to mix thoroughly. Combine wet ingredients in a small sauce pan over medium low heat and mix until earth balance is melted. This mixture should NOT get too hot, you should be able to stick your finger in the mixture. It should feel slightly warm. If you burn yourself, 1) it’s not my fault! and 2) it’s too hot for the dough!
Add wet to dry and mix until just combined. It should form a very soft dough. Like this:
Using a tablespoon measure, scoop out dough into your ungreased nonstick mini-donut pan. Smooth out the top of the dough with your fingers, this will make for more even, prettier donuts, but isn’t crucial.
As you can see, the dough sits just below the rim. If you over fill, your donuts will come out looking like it has a little muffin top. Not the end of the world, but not very donut-like either.
Bake for 12 minutes. They should not be browned on top, but a tester will come out clean. Invert hot pan over a cutting board or cooling rack to release donuts. Allow to cool completely before decorating.
Time for toppings!
Glaze with Sprinkles
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar (lump free!)
1 Tbs Soymilk
Bowl full of sprinkles (1/4 to 1/2 cup, ish?)
Whisk soymilk and powdered sugar together. Dip the “bottom” half of the donut (the side with the nicer shape) into the glaze, let some drip off, then dip glaze-side down into sprinkles. Transfer to a wire rack that has been set on top of some parchment paper. The excess glaze will drip through the rack onto the paper for easy cleaning later.
Chocolate Dip
This is the easy part. Melt 6 oz of high quality fairly sweet chocolate over low heat in a double boiler. Remove from heat and stir until chocolate is smooth and barely warm to the touch. I should mention that you should be very careful not to get any water in the chocolate or it could seize, and no one likes that!
Dip your donuts one-by-one into the chocolate until completely covered. Place donut on your wire rack to drip off excess chocolate – it’ll make for a much smoother appearance than if you try to scrape off excess chocoalte with your fingers. Allow to set until chocolate isn’t so shiny and can be picked up without making a sticky mess!
*Edit!! So, I waited until the chocolate was set and realized that my donuts had glued themselves to the rack, making the bottoms rip off when your try to pick one up. I think it’d be better to let these set on parchment paper! Also, use a decently sweet chocolate, mine was too bitter.
Enjoy!
Can someone please give me the **nutritional information** (like calories and fat) on these donuts??
Thanx
Omnomnomnom eating them right now, the ultimate naughty midnight (or any time) snack! You’re an absolute goddess, these follow an incredible italian layered vegetable casserole that we tried for dinner tonight. Merci!
Yummy yummy donut wow, feel like eating them right away. Are they very hard to cook ?
I can’t wait to try this recipe – but I’m allergic to sugar, has anyone tried it successfully with any natural sugar substitutes? I’d love to be able to make these!
Thank you so much for posting this recipe! I followed it to a T with a few glaze/topping changes and they were absolutely fantastic!! I love this recipe so much! I also love your book recipes, thanks again!
I haven’t been able to find a mini donuts tin as of yet. Any idea how they’d turn out in either muffin tins or just on a greased cookie sheet? Also, will any vinegar work or does it have to specifically be apple cider vinegar?
That looks so yummy……i want to eat my computer!
Just made these in a mini muffin pan (mini donut pan is on my list!) and added maple syrup to the glaze. SO GOOD! Thanks for the recipe!!
I’m a little late with my comment, but I just recently stumbled across your blog and love it! I have a 7 year old son who is allergic to dairy & egg and when I saw this recipe, I just knew I had to try it! We made these donuts this morning and what an absolute joy it was to watch my son not only help me make these, but actually eat a donut for the very first time! He loved them!!!
Thank you for sharing!!