Cute Baked Doughnuts Recipe….

This cute baked doughnuts recipe is brought to you by Miss Frugal who’s discovered a love of baking over the last couple of months. 

I’ve been trying to eat much healthier lately and one afternoon, I was upstairs working from home when the most amazing smell started to drift upstairs from the kitchen.  When I went to investigate what the smell was, my first thought was that our baking cupboard had exploded all over the counters. 😂

It turned out that Miss Frugal had been busy making me some baked doughnuts as she knew I was trying to be healthy but wanted to make us a mid-afternoon treat.  

Baked Doughnuts Recipe....

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Additional Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

This baked doughnut recipe makes doughnuts that little bit healthier for you so if you're trying to eat better then they're just what you need!

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Ingredients

• 75g unsalted butter, softened
• 115g caster sugar
• 1 large egg
• 125ml milk
• 1 capful vanilla extract
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 200g plain flour
• 170g (6oz) icing sugar
• 2 capfuls vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven 160 c.
2. Grease your doughnut tray.
3. Whisk the butter and sugar together until they're light and fluffy.
4. Add in the egg, milk and 1 capful of vanilla and give it a good mix.
5. Fold in the flour and the baking powder.
6. Spoon the mixture into your doughnut moulds and bake until they're rising and they're looking nice and golden. Ours took twenty minutes for the size of our doughnut moulds but you can get smaller or larger moulds so the length of time you'd cook them would depend on your moulds. The smaller ones would take around 10-12 minutes and the larger ones would be a little longer than these.
7. Leave them to cool down before icing them.
8. Make a glaze for the doughnuts by mixing the icing sugar and the two capfuls of vanilla with a 4-5 teaspoons of water. Add more water if you need to. Miss Frugal split her glaze and added a couple of drops of pink food colouring to one bowl and some Tiffany blue colouring to the other one
9. To decorate the doughnuts, dip each one into the icing in turn and add some pretty sprinkles if you want some.
10. Leave them to set before wowing everyone with the prettiness of your doughnuts.

I bought my doughnut moulds from Amazon ages ago as a set of three – there’s your normal ring doughnut mould, a set of heart-shaped doughnut moulds and one which are kind of a flower shape. I’m sure I bought them with some sort of soap product in mind rather than doughnuts but they were too big for what I had in mind.  Funnily enough, they’re the perfect size for doughnuts though. 😂. These are the ones I have although I’m pretty sure mine cost less than this – Doughnut moulds (affiliate link).

Top tip – don’t try and get the doughnuts out of the moulds until they’ve cooled down a little bit. From experience, we can tell you that being impatient doesn’t work and you might end up with a pile of very tasty cake crumbs.  

They’re just the prettiest little doughnuts and although I get that they’re absolutely not healthy, they are healthier than a traditional doughnut with them being baked rather than fried and I’ll be honest, I would have eaten one anyway because of the thought behind them.

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