baked cake doughnuts

Ok so if you didn't know (from this post, this post and this post) I love doughnuts-like A LOT. In fact I have a dream of one day opening a doughnut shop in my hometown on the Oregon Coast someday.

If I could eat doughnuts everyday I would but that wouldn't be so healthy. So recently I have been on a mission to make my own doughnuts without the frying.

When I found this super cool doughnut pan it sealed the deal- I had to make my own baked doughnuts. This great pan makes a variety of different doughnut possible!

To my surprise there are all sorts of fabulous baked doughnut recipes out there and I paired a couple of them together to come up with my own.

I started by mixing the dry ingredients-

2 cups of cake flour

3/4 cup of sugar

2 teaspoons of baking soda

1 teaspoon of salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

and then added the wet ingredients and mixed everything together-

3/4 cup of buttermilk

2 eggs

2 tablespoons of butter

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Next I added the batter to the doughnut pan.

and baked at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes.

I let them cool and then dipped the doughnuts in melted butter and then dipped then in cinnamon and sugar.

And while I put another batch in the oven I quickly devoured a warm cinnamon and sugar doughnut.

going....

going....

just about gone :) yum

For my second batch I made a simple glaze-

1/4 cup of milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups of powdered sugar.

Combine everything in sauce pan and heat on low.

Whisk everything together until combined and remove from heat.

I dipped the doughnuts into the glaze

and set on a drying rack.

Regardless of the glaze or topping these doughnuts are so delicious but taste more like cake than a fried doughnut- a perfect way to satisfy a doughnut craving :)