Cinnamon Roll Donuts
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Is it weird to have food dreams?
There is this ridiculous pudding recipe that I developed in my sleep. I haven’t tested it while awake, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be fabulous.
Drinks? I mix drinks like a professional in my sleep.
These donuts? I dreamed them.
It’s a good thing that calories don’t count while you’re dreaming. Then again, wouldn’t it be awesome if you could just dream exercise? I’d have plenty of time for cardio, weights, and whatever other stupid sweaty things I’m supposed to be doing!
But, let’s stop talking about that. Let’s focus on the donuts.
I started with my usual base recipe, but then livened things up a bit with this cinnamon topping I spotted over at Top With Cinnamon. From there I whipped up a thick, sweet, two ingredient glaze that knocks my socks off.
These cinnamon roll baked donuts made for a quick and simple breakfast. Definitely easier than kneading dough and waiting for it to rise!
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Yield: 6 donuts
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
For the donuts:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons tablespoons buttermilk (or regular milk with a teaspoon of white vinegar added)
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons vegetable or canoloa oil
For the cinnamon topping:
2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons cinnamon
5 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon milk
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon vanilla
For the glaze:
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons heavy cream
Directions:
To make the cinnamon topping:
Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Stir in the cinnamon, brown sugar, milk, and cornstarch. Heat just until it begins to boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
Pour the cinnamon topping evenly into each well of your well greased donut pan.
To make the donuts:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease a donut pan.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt.
In a small bowl, stir together the butter milk, egg, and oil.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir with a wooden spoon until fully incorporated.
Drop spoonfuls of the batter into the donut pan over the cinnamon topping and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked through.
Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for two minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Some of the cinnamon topping will likely be left in your donut pan, but a good portion of it will have transferred to your donuts.
Cool donuts before glazing.
To make the glaze:
Whisk together the powdered sugar and cream until smooth. Spoon into a baggie and cut off a small corner of the bag. Pipe the glaze onto the donuts.
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I want these!! And that cup of iced coffee in the background. I have food dreams too, but most of the time I dream about my food fails. Hmmm, what does that mean???
Now I’m going to dream about these donuts! Yum!!!
I need these in my life! They look ah-mazing!
Yes, please! These look awesome!
These donuts look absolutely amazing! Great for a weekend breakfast!
I love these Karly! Cinnamon rolls are my weakness. This is awesome.
I wish I had a better sense of taste in my dreams…then I could satisfy my constant sweet cravings without all the calories. cinnamon sugar heaven. Right here.
I want to try this recipe in my Babycakes donut maker.
That’s it. I definitely need a donut pan!
I had a recipe dream once….I still haven’t made it *shrug*
I am SO glad you made these, these are pure brilliance! Your subconscious is genius lady.
Yummy recipe! Thanks for sharing. PINNED! ~Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain~
Oh my!! These make my mouth water!
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Oh yeah, these are pure heaven! We are big cinnamon roll fans at this house, and this is perfect!
This recipe really is a dream come true. YUMMY!
Pinning! Love these
Alright, you’ve convinced me, I need these today. And a nap. But these first
Karly — February 28th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
Sooooo, you’ve just given me a brilliant idea. Every time I’m on facebook my husband teases me because I call it “work.” (As a blogger, it totally is, right?!) I can just see his face when I crawl into bed and tell him I’m going to work. Ha!
So, yes. Take a nap. It’s the productive thing to do!
I came up with the idea of shredding a butternut squash in the shower, so why not develop a recipe in a dream?
These donuts look delicious, Karly!
These donuts look soooooooooooooo tempting!
I LOVE cinnamon and I can almost smell it
I saw on a news special you can burn 500 calories if you get 7 hours of sleep, so you can have sleeping cardio
Is it weird I kind of want to kiss and hug you for dreaming up this recipe? I think not
Karly, these are amazing! I could eat cinnamon in any form everyday if I could! I also could scarf down some of that iced-coffee too – nice!
Suddenly I’m craving donuts?!! Yummy! I love that these came to you in your sleep. I want your dreams! Ha! Seriously thought, what a wonderful donut.
I have a recipe for Cinnamon Bun donuts from a few years ago that I need to dust off! I topped my with a traditional glaze like you’d find on cinn buns, but your cinn-sugar tops look sooooo pretty! And are less gloppy for the camera
Delish!
I would love to take a walk in your dreams. Is that creepy??
Stunning Karly! Oh how I wish we could exercise in our sleep, that would be SO awesome. I’d be fit, thin, and able to eat all my sugar!
Oh, those are so tempting. I don’t think my dreams are quite as vivid as yours (a pity, really — I wish they were!) but I often come up with fab recipe ideas in the shower. It’s my best thinking place.
I love cinnamon rolls and these donuts look like the perfect way to enjoy them without all of the work!
Yeah, I dream of food all the time. What stinks is in my dream I basically create recipe genius and then wake up and can’t remember any of it. Annoying.
I’ll be dreaming of these donuts fo sho.
I need these in my life! They look sooo nommy and super adorable.
These look AMAZING! I absolutely LOVE cinnamon anything so I will definitely give these a try.
Karly these look amazing! Keep the food dreams coming:)
i love cinnamon rolls is every single form. I dream about buttercream all the time. it’s so weird.
I have food dreams ALL the time. I only wish I could remember the details enough to make them happen in my awake hours!
Also- these donuts look amazing.
How awesome would be to dream exercise and lose the weight?!! I’d be exercising all night just so I can eat a dozen of these donuts in the morning when I wake up.
Oh my goodness I dream about food all the time! haha!
Plus, I love that two of my favorite things are together in one: doughnuts and cinnamon rolls. Yum!!
I want to dream of these tonight because they look amazing!
you know i love these, karly! i always dream about food, and i can already tell there will be a new visitor sometime in the near future.
I wish I dreamed about food. I have crazy awful dreams that usually involve missing exams in college. Or runaway cars.
These look fabulous!
I would much rather dream about food than all the crazy dreams I usually have. And I would be all over dream exercise, so I wouldn’t have to do it for real! These cinnamon roll donuts are a dream come true…haha couldn’t resist that one! But seriously, they are amazing looking!!
Karly,
These look amazing! What a great recipe!
Mackenzie
I’ve never made donuts before but these look amazing! I might just have to give it a try now. Thanks for inspiring me!
Those seriously look awesome!
I’ve just found your blog (you can thank Huffington Post’s best of February list!) and these donuts, like everything else, look amazing. I posted because….. I.love.donuts. Like almost as much as my husband and children. I see you have a lot of baked donut recipes and I was wondering if they truly satisfy….I bought the pan with the donut cavities for making them in the oven many years back. Tried one recipe for I think pumpkin donuts and they were better named pumpkin bricks. Some glaze (ok, lots of glaze) and a dunking in coffee and they were ok, but I’m looking for better than ok. Can you give me some tips on what to look for in a baked donut recipe…or your favorite recipe that I should start with? Thanks!!
Karly — March 8th, 2013 @ 9:10 pm
Hi Deb!
I never used to be a donut fan, but something has happened over the last few years, because I am a confirmed addict now!
As for baked donuts…do they satisfy? Well, they’re very good. Do they rival fried donuts? Eh. Probably not. I’ve always prefer the fried version myself. I do clearly love baked donuts though. I think of them more as muffins in donut shapes. And, since they’re donuts, they get to be topped with all manner of delicious things.
These browned butter glazed donuts are my absolute favorite: http://www.bunsinmyoven.com/2012/07/12/browned-butter-glazed-cinnamon-donuts/ I could literally eat the glaze with the spoon and the donut recipe is the one that I use as a base for most of my donuts.
I only post the recipes that I love though, so I think they’re all winners.
Thanks so much for responding!! I love cinnamon almost as much as I love donuts so that will be a perfect one to start with. Thanks!!
I just made these tonight and they are amazing! Added benefit is how great the house smells too from all the cinnamon. This is definitely going to be one of my standard donut recipe in my house. Thank you for sharing this with us.
These are amazing! All my colleagues loved them when I brought them to work. I posted them on my blog today with a link back here! Thanks for such a fun and delicious idea!
Yes, I have food dreams as well. I am such a foodie, these donuts look divine.
You made me buy a donut plan, thank you!