Homemade Mini Donuts!!!!

Girls taco night turned into, "now what can we make for dessert?"!! Of course Pinterest ALWAYS provides the best recipes and with Jenny around, we were in good hands :) The donuts are baked, ridiculously easy to make, & SO delicious!! The mini donut pan is available at Sur La Table. Ours was given to us by Drew & Sahar as an engagement present and is quite the addition to our bakeware.  I recommend making these especially when you have people over, or you will just end up eating them all yourself ;)

Ingredients

• 5 TBSP unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp baking powder
• pinch salt
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
for the topping
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• ¼ cup sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon

 

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325ºF
2. Lightly oil mini donut pan and set aside (alternatively you can use mini muffin pans)
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar
4. Add the egg, milk, and vanilla and mix until combined (mixture will look curdled)
5. Mix in the baking powder, then the salt
6. Mix in the flour just until combined
7. If using mini donut pan, transfer mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large round tip or into a ziplock baggie with the tip cut off. Pipe into the pan only filling ½ of the way fill. If using the mini muffin pan, fill each well ½ full
8. Bake at 325ºF for 8-10 minutes
9. Allow to cool slightly before dipping in topping
10. Melt the butter for the topping and combine the cinnamon and sugar
11. Dip each donut lightly in butter then roll in cinnamon and sugar