Homemade donuts may sound intimidating, but they’re easier to make than most people think. With a few simple steps, you can enjoy warm, fresh donuts straight from your own kitchen. They taste better than anything you’d pick up at a drive-thru and give you the freedom to enjoy them just the way you like. Making them at home turns an ordinary day into a sweet treat.
Sugar Donut
Sweet, crunchy, and hard to resist, these homemade sugar donuts are the perfect mid-day treat alongside coffee or tea or as a post-dinner dessert. This easy sugar donuts recipe is a breeze, requiring only eight ingredients and 30 minutes of your time. You’ll be craving another the very moment you sink your teeth into one of them!
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Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts
You are going to fall in love with these super moist and delicious baked pumpkin spice donuts, which are the perfect start to a holiday morning! They are packed with pumpkin, spiced with all the best iconic fall flavors, and coated in a simple cinnamon sugar mixture that is absolutely yummy! And because these donuts are baked and not fried, they are effectively cake donuts, which makes them a tad bit healthier and easier to make!
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Mochi Donuts
Mochi donuts, well known as Pon-de-ring In Japan, are delicious mochi-like ring-shaped donuts with a signature bouncy and chewy texture and colorful chocolate ganache glazings on top. Apart from their fun shape and versatility in flavoring them (that will mainly come from the glaze), I love them because of their texture: crisp outside with a bouncy, chewy, soft mochi-like inside.
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Beignets
Popular in French cuisine and a staple in the Louisiana city of New Orleans, these New Orleans-style homemade beignets are fun to make and hard to resist! Their light, sweet, and pillowy texture make them the perfect treat to enjoy any time of day: For breakfast, an afternoon snack, or dessert. Top them with sugar, fill them with cream, or dip them in your morning coffee.
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Brioche Donuts
Made with just eight simple ingredients you likely already have in your pantry, this easy brioche donut recipe is a breeze to make and the perfect addition to your breakfast or dessert menu. Believe me when I say that these deep-fried, melt-in-your-mouth treats are so soft, fluffy, and buttery that you may never return to eating regular donuts!
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Chocolate Donuts
These are the Ultimate baked chocolate donuts with a chocolate glaze that is simply out of this world! This crazy, delicious, must-try homemade doughnut recipe uses chocolate in the dough, the glaze, and the decoration (which might remind you of Brigadeiros)!
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Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts
These are the best baked cinnamon sugar donuts to make when you want light and fluffy donuts but without the hassle of deep frying. Whether you enjoy donuts with coffee, for breakfast, or as a delicious dessert, this is the recipe for you.
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Bavarian Cream Donuts
There are many delicious types of cream-filled donuts out there, but these delightful bavarian cream donuts are hands down a treat that everyone will love! Made with buttery brioche donuts and then filled with a creamy, rich French vanilla cream, they are super light, flavorful, and perfect for breakfast or dessert! The vanilla-flavored cream is light and creamy, made with a Crème Anglaise base combined with gelatin and whipped heavy cream.
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Maple Donuts
Maple donuts are the cozy, sweet, and sticky treat you need to try. If you love maple syrup, you simply have to make this baked maple donut recipe. It is the most delicious breakfast the whole family will look forward to in the morning! The best part? Maple glazed donuts are actually really simple to make and take less than 30 minutes!
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Triple Chocolate Baked Cake Donuts
This triple chocolate baked cake donut is a Devil's food cake donut glazed with chocolate ganache and topped off with mini chocolate chips. Whip up a batch in a matter of 30 minutes, and then watch them quickly be devoured. This guilty pleasure is the ideal treat for any chocolate lover.
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Coffee Baked Donut Recipe with Coffee Glaze
If you’re a coffee lover, this simple coffee baked donut recipe with coffee glaze is for you. These coffee donuts are packed with flavor and bring a cozy coffee shop vibe to your kitchen. The sweet coffee glaze adds the right touch, giving each donut a delicious finish. Perfect for breakfast or a quick treat, these baked donuts are easy to make and even easier to enjoy.
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Air Fryer Doughnuts
These delicious air-fried doughnuts have all the characteristics of deep-fried ones but without the need to cook them in hot oil. Their texture is slightly different from a classic doughnut, but they're still soft and fluffy inside and crisp and chewy on the exterior. Cover them in cinnamon sugar for an extra crunch, or top with vanilla or chocolate glaze for a softer finish.
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Fruity Pebbles Donuts with Cake Mix
This fruity pebbles donut recipe from cake mix is colorful, fun, delicious, and incredibly easy to make! You'll love using cake mix for baked donuts because it is practically foolproof and only requires a handful of ingredients. Additionally, they come out moist and delicious every single time. Cereal toppings for donuts add an excellent sweet flavor and crunchy texture.
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Baked Oreo Donuts
These baked Oreo donuts feature a rich, chocolate donut, studded with Oreo cookies and baked to perfection. Topped with a sweet cream cheese glaze and sprinkled with crumbled cookies, these donuts make the best breakfast or dessert! These Baked Oreo Donuts are a breeze to whip up!
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Jam Filled Donuts
These baked doughnuts are a healthier version of the Israeli sufganiyot or jam donuts. Made with brioche dough stuffed with jam and then baked, not deep fried. All the ingredients are simple pantry staples or easy to find. And the process is easier than ring donuts because we don’t roll and cut the donuts with cutters.
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Twisted Korean Donuts
This Korean donut recipe is the OG version of the donut twists I've served on my food truck since 2010! Known as 'Kkwabaegi' in Korean, these donuts fill the air in your kitchen with the sweet scent of cinnamon sugar and golden, buttery-tasting raised dough. Making these twisted donuts is the perfect easy brunch project for a Sunday morning.
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Zeppole
This classic Zeppole recipe, also known as Italian bite-sized doughnuts, is a simple fried (or air-fried) dessert or special morning treat that we usually make every year around Christmas and New Year or to celebrate special occasions. They are made with a pizza or bread dough, softened with cooked russet potatoes, sweetened with black raisins and powdered sugar, and become deliciously crispy on the outside once (air) fried.
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German Jam Doughnuts
These soft, fluffy, and incredibly delicious German jam doughnuts, also known as Berliner, are fried to a crisp, filled with jam, and dusted with icing sugar. You can enjoy these soft and fluffy doughnuts for breakfast, as a snack, or as a dessert. They're easy to make with a few simple ingredients, not overly sweet, very light and fluffy, and absolutely delicious.
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Baked Apple Cider Donut Holes
Baked apple cider donut holes are mini muffins that taste just like donut holes! Fall brings all sorts of delicious pumpkin and apple treats. One of my favorites is apple cider donuts! This easy recipe makes delicious apple cider spice muffins. They’re light and fluffy with a buttery cinnamon-sugar coating that makes them extra delicious.
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S'More Donuts
Have you ever been craving S'Mores but also donuts and got stuck in a loop? Do I want S'Mores? Or donuts? S'Mores? or donuts?! These easy s´more donuts are a delicious twist on America's favorite camping dessert. With just three ingredients, they are a cinch to make at home or away.
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