Chocolate Glazed Mini Baked Donuts

Chocolate Glazed Mini Donuts

So, I received a mini donut pan for Christmas that I've been impatiently waiting to try out. Tonight was that night. While everyone else was watching sappy Super Bowl commercials, I was in the kitchen trying out some recipes. 

I hope to some day be sharing my own recipes, but today is not that day. I can honestly say this is the first time I've made donuts, so I very much needed the assistance of Pinterest. 

DONUTS!!!!!

For the donut itself I used this recipe by Cupcake-Princess

Given that I was making minis, I cut the recipe in half like so:

1 cup flour

6 tbsp sugar

1 tsp baking powder

A decent sized pinch of ground nutmeg

A decent sized pinch of salt

6 tbsp buttermilk *

1 beaten egg

1 tbsp butter, melted

*We don't regularly have buttermilk in the house, so I went with a substitute I've tried a handful of times in my favorite sconce recipe. Said substitute is just simply the 6 tablespoons of milk and then just 1/4 tablespoon + a splash of lemon juice. Mix the milk and lemon juice and then just let it sit for a few minutes :)

Heat the oven to 425°F

In a large bowl mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.

Add in the buttermilk (or substitute), egg, and butter. Stir until combined. You should have a decently thick batter. 

From here, I opted to put my batter into a quart Ziplock bag to pipe it into my donut pan. I would highly suggest doing this or something similar since this batter is a bit too thick to just be poured into these tiny rings.

Next up, pop those suckers in the oven! Because they are minis they bake very quickly, I pulled them out after about 5 minutes and did the classic toothpick check and they were golden. Literally. On the bottom that is, the tops were a bit deceiving.

Pop these little guys out onto a rack to cool. Splitting the original recipe in half yielded 24 mini donuts.

In the meantime.... time to make frosting! 

Chocolate Glaze

I kidnapped this basic chocolate frosting recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction

Once again, I split the recipe in half, and though I didn't quite have enough to cover all 2 dozen, but I wanted to leave a few plain, so it worked out anyhow. In the future I will probably just follow this full recipe:

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 tbsp unsalted butter

2 tsp light corn syrup

2 tsp water

Put all ingredients in a bowl and microwave for about 30 seconds. Mix together. just 30 seconds did it for me, but you might need to microwave a little longer, in 10 seconds increments. Stir until smooth. Dip the mini donuts into the chocolate glaze and then return to rack to dry. Apply sprinkles to your hearts desire ;)