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Maple Donuts (Baked Maple Glazed Donuts)

Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American, Southern
Keyword easy-maple-donuts, maple-donuts-recipe, maple-glazed-doughnuts
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Cooling Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • Donuts:
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/2 cup salted or unsalted butter melted
  • 1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup full fat sour cream room temperature
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • Glaze:
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1-2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup
  • 2-3 Tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 400°F.  Grease a donut pan with cooking spray.
  • In a medium mixing bowl use a whisk to soft together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and cloves. 
  • In a separate large mixing bowl, whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, sour cream, milk, vanilla extract and eggs. 
  • Add the flour mixture to the maple syrup mixtrue, stirring or whisking until smooth. (You can mix the batter by hand or use an electric mixer).
  • Fill each donut mold about 2/3 of the wayfull. (You can use a piping bag or a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped to pipe the batter.)
  • Bake for 13-15 minutes or until the donuts are puffy and crisp around the edges.  Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Glaze: In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar,maple syrup and heavy cream until smooth. 
  • Dip the top of each doughnut into the glaze. Give it a little wiggle so that the glaze will adhere to the top. Allow any excess to drip off before moving it to a wire rack to drain rack. Immediately sprinkle with maple sugar or turbinado sugar and allow to set for 10 minutes, then serve.

Notes

    • If you don't have donut pans, you can bake this maple donut batter in a muffin tin!
    • It's important to use real maple syrup in this maple glazed donuts recipe and not artificial syrup that you may buy for pancakes. It's the featured ingredient and enhances the flavor and taste of the donuts.
    • Substitutions: If you'd like add bourbon to the glaze, you can. For the glaze, add one tablespoon of Kentucky bourbon to the ingredients to replace some of the heavy cream. You could also use plain greek yogurt in place of sour cream. 
    • You could add 1-2 teaspoons of maple extract to the batter for a more intense flavor. 
    • You can buy maple sugar at large grocery stores. You can also use turbinado sugar or sugar in the raw in its place. 
    • This recipe requires real maple syrup, not the butter syrup you buy for pancakes.
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