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Christmas Donuts

Christmas donuts are a cake donut, that is baked and then dipped in a chocolate glaze. Whip these holiday donuts up for Christmas morning. The best easy homemade donuts that will win over the crowd! you can roll them in cinnamon sugar, dust with powdered sugar, and more if you want to change up from a glaze.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 18 minutes
Servings 12 donuts
Author Kelsey

Ingredients

Donuts:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup light brown sugar
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter - melted
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • Christmas Sprinkles

For the glaze:

  • 1/4 cup + 3 tablespoons heavy cream – this will be divided
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup white chocolate – chopped

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Then spray your donut pan with cooking spray. And Set Aside.
  • Now in a bowl you will add in your dry ingredients. Flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. Whisk and set aside.
  • Now in another bowl add your milk, eggs, and butter and whisk until combined, then add in vanilla.
  • Slowly incorporate the dry flour mixture and mix until the batter is smooth with minimal lumps.
  • Now pour the batter into a Wilton piping bag or a gallon size ziploc bag. Cut the end off and pipe the cake donut batter into the donut pan.
  • Bake 8-10 minutes or until the donuts are fully cooked. Then allow the donuts to sit in the pan for 3 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.

  • !Glaze
  • 1. Now for the glaze mix 1/4 cup of cream in one bowl and andd the 3 tablespoons of cream in oather bowl. Micrwaove the 1/4 cup cream for 30 seconds. The smaller 3 tablespoons just 15-20 seconds.
  • 2. For the chocolate you will add the semi sweet chocolate into the 1/4 cup, and the white chocolate to the 3 tablespoons. Whisk until the chocolates are fully melted.
  • Let the glaze sit for 3 minutes covered. Then once donuts are cool uncover and dip each donut half way in the glaze.
  • Add Sprinkles and your Christmas donuts are let sit on the cooling rack to set up for 15 minutes. Then serve and enjoy these Christmas cake donuts.

Notes

You can do a different dusting on these if you don't want to glaze the donuts.
These are freezer friendly, just store properly and freeze for up to three months.
You can easily double the recipe, just batch cook.
If your glaze seems lumpy just reheat for 10-second increments whisking between heating cycles until it is cool.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g