Homemade Glazed Donuts are melt in your mouth soft and fluffy with a perfectly sweet glaze. They come together so easily, these donuts will become a weekend staple!
There is a serious love affair with donuts going on in this house. Jelly filled, sprinkles, fritters, holes, or glazed. It doesn’t matter what you call them or what they look like. We love them all equally. Well, that might be an overreach. Have you ever had a dry donut? Not enough jelly filling? Subpar glaze? Ugh. It’s a sad day when you go in with high expectations only to be let down by a mediocre donut. Don’t fret though, because we are coming at you with an amazing glazed donut recipe today that aims to please.
These donuts are everything you ever wanted out of a traditional glazed donut. They are oh so soft and practically melt in your mouth when you bite into them. The glaze has just the right amount of sweetness to keep you coming back for more. Trust us, these are about to become your new favorite donuts. No driving to the store required!
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Yeast Options for Homemade Glazed Donuts:
This recipe calls for instant dry yeast. It allows you to add it in with all of the other ingredients at once, no proofing required. If you want the quick and easy method, we recommend sticking with instant dry yeast.
Only have active dry yeast on hand? No worries, it will still work! Active dry yeast simply requires proofing time. Add your yeast to the 1/2 cup warm water and let it dissolve and get bubbly. Once it has proofed about 10 minutes it is ready to pour in and add to all of the other ingredients.
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Frying Oil Options:
Instead of frying in vegetable oil, you can also use vegetable shortening instead. You’ll need approximately 2 cups of shortening.
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Can I substitute with bread flour?
We call for all purpose flour in this recipe to make the most soft dough and fluffy donuts. Bread flour produces a very tough donut, so it is not recommended in this recipe.
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in these other delicious donut and sweet bread recipes:
- Baked Vanilla Cake Donuts with Chocolate Glaze and Sprinkles
- The Best Homemade Cinnamon Rolls Ever
- Homemade Cronuts
- Peach Pie Donuts
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This is an interesting donut I’ve ever eaten. We use make donut at weekend, on the top we spread cream and sprinkle dark or rainbow chocolate, sometimes we choose nuts pieces. Really we can endlessly create with a donut. It’s so fun and we call donut is wheel cake.
First time making donuts and I love this recipe! Definitely my go to recipe. Thank you for making my first attempt at donuts a success.😁
Great dough recipe, followed it completely and yielded a soft fluffy doughnut though i chose to do a custard cream filling instead of a glaze.
They look delicious.
Nicely done!!!
Wonderful. I have waited a long time to find that recipe! Thank you.
These are so good. My family loved them, unfortunately they were gone within an hour! I wonder if there is a way to make a chocolate version? Thanks for another great recipe.
Tried these today and they were divine!!! Nothing like fresh warm donut 🍩 Thank you Rachael 😊
Really easy to make and delicious result! Thank you for sharing wonderful recipes!