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Easy Baked Donuts Recipe for Easter
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These homemade baked donuts are so easy that the kids can make them! All you need is a cake mix, butter, eggs, and milk. Then follow the decorating instructions below to frost your homemade cake donuts to be fluffy yellow spring chicks or classic white Easter bunny donuts.
No fancy decorating tools or skills needed! Just sprinkles, a #4 round decorator’s tip, a #3 round decorator’s tip, and disposable decorator bags.
How to Make Baked Donuts
To make baked cake donuts at home, you’ll need a donut pan. This pan set has a large donut pan and a mini donut pan, plus the piping bags and a spatula to make it easy!
Then just mix up the donut batter until smooth. Fill a large pastry bag and pipe the batter into the pans. (You can also use a large zipper plastic bag with a corner snipped off.)
One boxed cake mix will make 12-15 full sized baked donuts and about 24-30 mini donuts.
Want to make homemade donuts without a donut pan? Try this muffin tin donut hack: Roll a small cylinder of tin foil and place it in the center of a the well of a muffin tin. Grease the pan and the tin foil “donut hole”. Then pipe the donut batter around the cylinder and bake as usual.
More baked donut recipes from scratch: chocolate berry baked donuts // pistachio and cranberry baked donuts
How to Frost Baked Donuts
Homemade baked cake donuts are delicious with or without frosting — but we all know that kids love frosted donuts (with sprinkles!)
The key to frosting homemade donuts is dipping the donut into the frosting, rather than trying to spread the frosting on the donut.
Scoop half a can of frosting into a microwave safe bowl and heat for about 30 seconds. Stir the warmed frosting well to remove any chunks, and stir in any desired color food coloring.
Dip the top half of the cooled donuts in the frosting. Allow the excess to drip back into the bowl, shaking gently if needed. Turn the donut right-side up and shake gently side to side to level the frosting.
Set the donuts on a mesh cooling rack to allow the frosting to drip off the edges if needed. (A cookie sheet or wax paper under the cooling rack makes for quick cleanup.)
Each can of frosting will decorate about one batch of donuts, depending on how much frosting you use for the added decorations below. If you’re decorating with multiple colors of frosting, you’ll need about half a can for each color to have enough frosting to adequately dip the donuts.
We recommend this decorator food coloring set.
How to Decorate Easter Bunny Donuts
To frost an Easter bunny donut:
Attach the tail, ears, eyes, and nose using the leftover warmed white frosting.
To make the sprinkle marshmallow tail, put a mini marshmallow on a toothpick and dip it in warmed frosting to coat all sides. Immediately dip the marshmallow into the white non-pareil sprinkles, roll to cover, and set aside to cool.
To make the cut marshmallow ears, cut one mini marshmallow in half diagonally. Immediately dip the cut part into a small bowl of pink sprinkles.
How to Decorate Spring Chick Donuts
To frost a spring chick donut for Easter dessert:
Cake Mix Baked Donut Recipe and Decorating Instructions
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 15-17 minutes
Baked Donut Ingredients
Frosting and Decorations for Easter Bunny Donuts
Frosting and Decorations for Spring Chick Donuts
Frosting for Easter Bunny Donuts
Decorations for Easter Bunny Donuts
Frosting and Decorations for Spring Chick Donuts
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