Baked Donut

Old-fashioned doughnuts were deep-fried in hot fat; new-fashioned doughnuts are baked in a hot oven! 

Ingredients

Butter - 4 TBSP
Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup
Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup
Brown sugar - 1/3 cup, packed

Eggs - 2 large (replace with 1/2 cup apple sauce for egg-free)

Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg - 1/2 to 1 tsp, to taste

Salt - 3/4 tsp
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 cup
All-Purpose Flour - 2 2/3 cups

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 425°F. Lightly grease standard or mini doughnut pans.
2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat together the butter, vegetable oil, and sugars until smooth.
3. Add the eggs (or egg replacement), beating to combine.
4. Stir in the baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, salt, and vanilla.
5. Stir the flour into the butter mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour and making sure everything is thoroughly combined. The batter will be fairly thick; when you draw your spatula through the batter, it will leave a furrow.

6. Use a Ziploc bag with a corner cut at the bottom as piping bag to pipe batter into the lightly greased doughnut pans, filling the wells to about 1/4" shy of the rim.

7. Bake the doughnuts for 5-10 minutes. Remove them from the oven, and wait 5 to 7 minutes before turning them out of the pans onto a rack.

Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts

Shake warm doughnuts in a plastic bag with about 1/4 to 1/3 cup cinnamon-sugar. 

Vanilla Glazed Doughnuts

Confectioners' sugar - 1.25 cup

Light corn syrup - 1 TBSP

Melted butter - 1 TBSP

Milk - 1 to 2 TBSP

Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp

Mix all ingredients together and use to glaze the doughnuts.