Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze

Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze
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Skip the bakery and make these Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze at home. Soft, fluffy and perfectly spiced, these donuts are finished with a from-scratch cranberry glaze. Easy and addicting, this recipe is a delicious treat for the holidays.

Leave it to the government to mess up mealtime.

In case you didn’t notice, the USDA left dessert off their food pyramid. On purpose! Dessert needs to be on top where it belongs, like buttercream icing. Omitting sugar from the triangle of food groups is an F-U to Egyptian pharaohs. For thousands of years children have used sugar cubes to construct mini pyramids. King Tut is probably putting an ancient curse on the USDA as we speak.

I just put a modern curse on them. Not only because their healthy food choices are in direct opposition of my cake-loving lifestyle, but because the pyramid’s color palette is all kinds of wrong. There should be five food groups and they should all be pink: unicorn ice cream, cotton candy, Bazooka gum, flamingo cupcakes and pickled turnips.

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What, you don’t like pickled turnips? Fine, these cranberry glazed spiced donuts make for a tasty replacement. They’re the perfect hue of hot pink plus every bite is super soft and fluffy. Spiced for the season with cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmeg, these homemade donuts are finished with a sweet cranberry glaze.

Donuts don’t get any easier than this. In less than 30 minutes you can prep and bake half a dozen of these addicting treats. The next time you have a craving, skip the bakery and make Spiced Donuts then top them with a pretty-in-pink Cranberry Glaze.

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Before sharing the recipe for Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze, here are a few tips and tricks to help you out:

Ingredient Tips and Tricks

For the moistest, fluffiest donut texture be sure all ingredients (egg, milk and yes, even yogurt) are at room temperature before beginning.

Preparation Tips and Tricks

Pipe batter into your donut pan using a zip-top bag with a bottom corner snipped off.

Storage Tips for Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze

Donuts taste best the day they’re made but can be covered tightly then stored at room temperature for up to 2 days.

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I hope you enjoy this Spiced Donuts recipe. Please leave a comment and rating at the bottom of this blog when you try it for yourself. Don’t forget to tag #whiskingwolf on social media so I can drool over your pics on Instagram.

Finally, if you love baking donuts at home check out these recipes S’mores Baked Donuts Recipe and Frosted Chocolate Fall Donuts.

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Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze

Heather Wolf
Skip the bakery and make these Spiced Donuts with Cranberry Glaze at home. Soft, fluffy and perfectly spiced, these donuts are finished with a from-scratch cranberry glaze. Easy and addicting, this recipe is a delicious treat for the holidays.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Glaze 15 minutes
Total Time 39 minutes
Course Donuts
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Equipment

  • Donut pan

Ingredients
  

Spiced Donuts

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour unbleached
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/3 cup light brown sugar packed
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp ground allspice
  • 1/8 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 large egg room temperature
  • 1/3 cup milk room temperature
  • 1/4 cup Greek yogurt room temperature
  • 2 Tbsp unsalted butter melted
  • 1 tsp vanilla pure

Cranberry Glaze

  • 1/2 cup cranberries fresh
  • 3 Tbsp water
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 tsp orange zest
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 Tbsp corn syrup
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla pure

Instructions
 

Spiced Donuts

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease donut pan with olive oil and set aside.
  • Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar and spices together in a large bowl.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk egg, milk, yogurt, melted butter and vanilla until combined.
  • Carefully add wet ingredients to dry, stirring with a wooden spoon until just combined. Take care to avoid overmixing. Note: Batter will be thick.
  • Pipe batter into donut pan, evenly distributing between the six cavities.
  • Bake for 9 minutes. Donuts are done when tops spring back when pressed by a fingertip.
  • Cool donuts in pan for 3 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Cranberry Glaze

  • Add cranberries, water, sugar and orange zest to saucepan. Simmer for 8 minutes, while crushing cranberries with a fork, until mixture thickens to the consistency of jam.
  • Remove from heat and cool slightly.
  • Add powdered sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, and cranberry mixture to a food processor. Pulse until smooth. Note: glaze will be thick.

Assembly

  • Dip donuts tops into glaze. Decorate with sprinkles if desired. Donuts taste best the day they are made but can be covered and stored at room temperature up to 2 days.
Keyword cranberry, donuts, glaze, spiced


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