Post a Recipe Children can assist in making this simple Easter dessert of fried donuts. After baking, use icing to decorate the donuts into Easter bunny and spring chick shapes.
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The kids can create these freshly baked donuts because they’re so simple to make. A cake mix, butter, eggs, and milk are all that are required. Then, use the decorating tips below to decorate your baked cake donuts into traditional white Easter bunnies or fluffy yellow spring chicks.
DISPOSABLE DECORATOR BAGS, A, AND A RECIPE FOR BAKED DONUTS You’ll need a donut pan to make baked cake donuts at home. This pan set makes it simple with a large and a small doughnut pan, piping bags, and a spatula.
Simply combine the doughnut batter until it is smooth. Pipe the batter into the pans using an large pastry bag . (A large zipper plastic bag with a corner cut off can also be used.)
12–15 full-sized baked donuts and roughly 24–30 little donuts can be made from one box of cake mix.
Without a doughnut pan, would you like to bake homemade donuts? Try this doughnut trick using a muffin tin: Place a small cylinder of rolled tin foil in the middle of the muffin pan’s well. Grease the pan and the donut hole made of tin foil. After that, bake the cylinder as usual after pipering the doughnut batter around it.
HOW TO FROST BAKED DONUTS Homemade baked cake doughnuts are great both ways, but we all know that kids like frosted donuts (especially ones with sprinkles!)
Instead of attempting to spread icing on the donut, the secret to frosting homemade doughnuts is to dip the donut into the frosting.
Half a can of frosting should be heated in the microwave for 30 seconds. any desired color food coloring is added after thoroughly stirring the warmed frosting to eliminate any clumps.
The icing is applied on the top half of the cooled doughnuts. Shaking gently if necessary while allowing the surplus to trickle back into the dish Shake the doughnut lightly from side to side to smooth the frosting after turning it right-side up.
In order to enable the frosting to drip down the edges if necessary, place the donuts on a mesh cooling rack. (For easy cleanup, place a cookie sheet or piece of wax paper under the cooling rack.)
Depending on how much frosting you use for the additional embellishments shown below, each frosting can will roughly decorate one batch of donuts. If you’re using several frosting colors to decorate the donuts, you’ll need about half a can of frosting for each color to cover the doughnuts completely.
THIS DECORATOR FOOD COLORING SET IS ADVISED. A GUIDE TO DYIING EASTER BUNNY DONS
FOR AN EASTER BUNNY DONUT TO BE FROSTED: Warm white frosting is used to dip the donut. (The color will become even more vivid by adding white food coloring ) Include a marshmallow tail cut with white sprinkle and marshmallow ears cut with pink sprinkles . Add 2 miniature chocolate chip eyes and an heart sprinkle nose to complete. Using the remaining, warmed white icing, attach the tail, ears, eyes, and nose.
Put a little marshmallow on a toothpick, dip it in warmed frosting, and coat it well to produce the sprinkling marshmallow tail. The marshmallow should be dipped into the white non-pareil sprinkles right away, covered with a roll, and left to cool.
Cut one small marshmallow in half diagonally to create the cut marshmallow ears. The chopped piece should be dipped into pink sprinkles right away.
SPRING CHICK DONUTS: DECORATION INSTRUCTIONS
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A SPRING CHICK DONUT FROSTED AS AN EASTER DESSERT: After applying yellow food coloring , dip the doughnut in warmed icing. Color the remaining can of frosting dark orange (for the beak and feathers) and two lighter hues of orange in three small basins (for the feathers). Use This pan set 1 for the beak and This pan set 2 for the feathers to decorate This pan set 0 with colorful icing. Pipe on the beak and feathers after adding the 2 little chocolate chip eyes. Recipe for mixed baked donuts and decorating guidelines FOR EASTER, BAKED DOUGHNUTS IN A CAKE Makes 12-15 10 minutes to prepare Cooking Period: 15–17 minutes Recipe Print
1 10 minutes for preparation Cooking Time: 15 minutes Ingredients ingredients for baked donuts 1 15.25-ounce box of cake mix in any flavor 1 stick of melted and chilled butter room temperature 2 eggs a cup of milk Frosting and Easter Bunny Donut decorations 1 container vanilla frosting; finest results come from canned icing White optional food coloring Little Marshmallows Eyeball-sized chocolate chips Pink Nose sprinkle with heart Pink and White Nutella Sprinkles CHICK DONUTS FOR SPRING: FROSTING AND DECOR 1 can of vanilla icing Eyeball-sized chocolate chips Orange and Yellow Disposable food coloring Designer Bags INSTRUCTIONS BAKED DONUT GUIDELINES Set oven temperature to 325 degrees. Apply nonstick frying spray to the doughnut pan and then use paper towels to remove any excess. Combine all doughnut ingredients and blend well. Fill a reusable bag or a decorator bag with batter. Fill the doughnut pan with batter using a pastry bag. A toothpick inserted in the doughnut should come out clean after 15 to 17 minutes of baking at 325 degrees. Cool in pan for ten minutes, then take out and finish cooling on a wire rack. EASTER BUNNY DONUTS FROSTED To a bowl that can be used in a microwave, add about half of the frosting can. around 30 seconds to heat For a frosting that is more colorful, use white food coloring. Top the baking sheet with a wire rack to catch any drips. Mix thoroughly; the consistency must be runny but not hot. Turn the doughnut over and cover the top with the melted icing. Shake off excess slowly. Shake side-to-side while turning the icing right side up to level it. Place until stiff on wire rack. EASTER BUNNY DONUTS DECORATIONS To a small bowl, add white nonpareil sprinkles. A toothpick with a small marshmallow on it should be used for dipping into melted white frosting. Dip into sprinkles right away, then set to dry. To a small bowl, add pink nonpareil sprinkles. one small marshmallow diagonally in half. As soon as possible, dip the cut section into the sprinkles and let it dry. Insert a little chocolate chip upside-down for the face’s eyes into the doughnut. To make the doughnut’s nose, apply a tiny bit of frosting to the heart sprinkle. Add to doughnut by dipping the bottom of the tail in frosting. Add the frosting-coated bottoms of the ears to the doughnut. Leave alone to dry CHICK DONUTS FOR SPRING: FROSTING AND DECOR repeat the bunny-frosting procedure with yellow-colored frosting. To decorate, mix a tiny amount of frosting with three bowls of dark orange frosting (for the beak and feathers) and two shades of orange frosting (for the feathers). Frosting should be added to the decorator bag with the #4 and #3 tips for the feathers and beak, respectively. Insert a little chocolate chip upside-down for the face’s eyes into the doughnut. icing in dark orange to pipe on the beak. On feathers, pipe Leave alone to dry MORE RECIPES FOR BAKED DONUTS: Save this by pinning it for later!
