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Coffee Cake Doughnut Recipe

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Prep Time 20 minutes
Bake Time 18 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes

Equipment

  • Doughnut-shaped baking pans or mini muffin pans

Ingredients

Doughnut Batter

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup glutinous rice flour
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter - room temperature
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 20 drops Hedessent Crispy Doughnut Flavouring
  • 20 drops Hedessent Espresso Coffee Flavouring
  • 15 drops Vanilla Cookie Flavouring
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Topping Option 1: Butter Dip

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter - melted
  • 12 drops Hedessent Crispy Doughnut Flavouring
  • 15 drops Hedessent Espresso Coffee Flavouring

Topping Option 2: Doughnut Icing Drizzle

  • 2 cups icing sugar (confectioner's sugar)
  • 2-5 tbsp whole milk, heavy cream or dairy alternative
  • 5-15 drops Hedessent flavouring of choice

Instructions

Doughnuts

  • In a mixing bowl, beat together sugar and butter until light in colour and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in sour cream and then eggs one at a time. Add 20 drops Coffee Espresso Flavour, 20 drops Crispy Doughnut flavour, and 15 drops Vanilla Cookie flavour and mix well.
  • In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Add dry mixture to wet ingredients and mix until well combined. Don’t over mix.
  • Generously spray pans with non-stick baking spray. Scoop batter into doughnut pans. Recipe makes 14 regular-sized donuts or 20 mini doughnuts. Depending on size, bake for 12-18 minutes in a 325°F oven or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let cool 10 minutes and carefully remove doughnuts from pan while still warm.

Topping Option 1: Butter Dip

  • While doughnuts are cooling, mix melted butter with 12 drops Crispy Doughnut and 15 drops Coffee Espresso flavourings in a shallow bowl.
  • Dip doughnuts in flavoured butter and then sprinkle generously with icing sugar. These donuts are best enjoyed the day they are baked.

Topping Option 2: Doughnut Drizzle

  • Whisk 2 cups icing sugar with heavy cream or milk. Mix a tablespoon at a time until you reach the consistency you'd like your drizzle to be.
  • Adding flavour: Start with 5 drops Hedessent Flavouring of choice. Mix, taste, and adjust. If you are adding more flavour, do so in 5 drop increments until you get flavour strength you like.
  • Whisk until mixture is like thick cream. Drizzle doughnuts generously and enjoy!

Notes

 

ProTip #1:
Alternative Flavour Combos for Butter Dip

For a different flavoured doughnut, keep in the Crispy Doughnut flavouring but omit the Coffee Espresso in the batter and butter and try these combinations for flavouring the melted butter dip:

 

Pro Tip #2

This recipe can be made with regular or mini muffin pans if you don’t have want to invest in donut pans. If you’re considering a purchase, silicone pans are a great investment, as they release baked goods easily with less chance of sticking. The glutinous rice flour in the recipe gives the doughnuts a great slightly chewy texture and can be purchased in the international section of most grocery stores. You can make the recipe without it – just add an extra half cup of regular flour and omit the rice flour.