Baked Cinnamon Sugar Mini Donuts

It’s the weekend so of course that means you need to treat yourself to a delicious dessert of some sort, and in this case dessert for breakfast! I finally bought a couple of mini doughnut pans this week so I decided to put them to good use and make these soft and fluffy Cinnamon Sugar Mini Doughnuts! They are little bites of heaven and isn’t everything just better in miniaturized form?

These are more similar to the texture of a cupcake vs. that of a heavy cake doughnut, which I personally loved. I originally made them the heavier way, then dunked them in butter after baking and cinnamon sugar – but that was just too much for me. The cinnamon sugar coating was much too thick for their size, so instead I made a buttery donut batter then immediately dipped them warm from the oven in the cinnamon sugar coating and voila! You get a deliciously tender tiny little donut coated in just the right amount of cinnamon sugar for their size. These soft cinnamony cake donuts are sure to please! I mean who could resist? Read More »