A homemade version of Dunkin' Donuts' popular yeast-raised, vanilla cream filled, deep-fried doughnuts.
Method: deep fryer, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Doughnuts
Treat your family or co-workers to homemade donuts! Raised, glazed, holes, and beignets - we have many ways to get your sugar fix!
Fun Food Holiday: Donut Day is the first Friday in June each year.
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Copycat Dunkin' Donuts' Vanilla Filled Doughnuts
Thai Donuts (Pa Thong Ko)
Fry up some tasty Thai donuts to make your friends, and taste buds, happy. Simple dough fried in oil makes light and puffy donut sticks that are traditionally eaten at...
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Baked Raised Doughnuts
Yeast-raised doughnuts dipped in butter, sugar, and cinnamon will easily have you grabbing for a second helping.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Instant Cake Mix Donuts
Making donuts at home is easier than you might think especially with this recipe using cake mix. You can have fresh, homemade donuts in no time.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Mashed Potato Raised Donuts
You'd never guess that these delectable glazed donuts rely on potatoes for their melt-in-your-mouth texture.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
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Sourdough Doughnuts
This doughnut recipe calls for sourdough starter, so if you're into breadmaking this is the recipe for you. If not, maybe it's time to give it a shot.
Method: deep fryer
Time: 2-5 hours
Copycat Chinese Buffet Style Donuts
Love those deep-fried donuts you get at the Chinese buffet? Well, here ya' go! Super easy to make at home.
Method: deep fryer, stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Cake Doughnuts
Cake doughnuts are non-yeasted doughnuts. They are made with a cake-like batter that is deep-fried, forming a sweet dessert that can be served plain, frosted, or coated with powdered...
Method: deep fryer
Time: under 30 minutes
Angel Food Doughnuts
Soft, fluffy angel-food shouldn't be limited just to full-out cakes. These scratch-made doughnuts will give you your angel-food fix in a much smaller package.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Buttermilk Drop Doughnuts
Warning: when you know how easy it is to make these homemade donut holes, you'll start finding every excuse to make them.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Fastnachts (Potato Doughnuts)
Made with confectioners' sugar, eggs, salt, potatoes, milk, shortening, water, yeast, flour, sugar
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Cake Doughnuts With Chocolate Or Honey Glaze
Who can say no to a glazed doughnut? Especially when it's homemade like these.
Method: stovetop, deep fryer
Time: 1-2 hours
Baked French Doughnuts
The taste and texture of a doughnut that's simply baked in a muffin tin.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Welsh Cakes
Made with lemon, currants, egg, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, milk
Time: under 30 minutes
Cinnamon Doughnuts
Skip the doughnut shoppe and make your own delicious cinnamon doughnuts at home.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Rich Doughnuts
Have rich, homemade cake-like donuts in minutes with this easy recipe.
Method: stovetop, deep fryer
Time: 30-60 minutes
Old Fashioned Glazed Doughnuts
These popular old fashioned doughnuts are made with a yeast-raised dough that is deep-fried and glazed. Best served warm.
Method: stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Old Fashioned Jelly Doughnuts
A great jelly doughnut is hard to beat. Biting through the powdered sugar, then the soft dough, then the sweet fruit filling? It's an experience worth making the...
Method: deep fryer, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Funnel Cakes
Made with egg, milk, sugar, flour, salt, baking powder
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Paczki
Paczki are Polish sweet pastries that are filled with prune puree or cherry jam. They are then deep-fried and dusted with powdered sugar.
Method: deep fryer
Time: 2-5 hours
Vanilla Doughnuts
Even a bad doughnut (is there such a thing?) is pretty irresistible, let alone this vanilla variety. This recipe leaves the topping all up to you. So many options, so many doughnuts...
Time: under 30 minutes
Galaxy Doughnuts
These star-shaped donuts are out of this world. The combination of wheat germ, soy flour, and oat bran helps make them a bit healthier than other donuts.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Bunuelos De Viento
Ready to try your hand at something a bit different? Bunuelos de viento are light, crispy, and undeniably satisfying, perfect for those adventurous home cooks who want to step...
Method: deep fryer
Time: 30-60 minutes
Sopaipillas
Sopaipillas are a Spanish pastry that puffs up like a pillow when fried in oil. Serve them warm, drizzled with honey or sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chicken Charlie's Fried Kool-Aid
Made with flour, milk, vegetable oil, eggs, Kool-Aid, sugar, salt, baking powder
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
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