Screw you Dunkin Donuts and Entemanns :)

Kelley528

We baked donuts from scratch this weekend using the Wilton Donut Pan and the recipe included on the package. It should make 12 donuts, we doubled the ingredients and it actually made 30 donuts. Each one without glaze was only 96 calories!!! Depending on the glaze we put on top they came out to 125-150. These donuts are not fried, just cake donuts. They still tasted good and they were more filling.

I'm going to tweak things the next batch but it just proves cooking your own food and snacks is so much better than buying fast food.

adiostrasero

Sounds good! I go to a local donut shop that bakes their own with no preservatives, etc. - basically the same recipe you'd use for homemade. And I often order cake donuts without icing because I found I like them better, somehow! (Totally atypical for me to actually prefer the healthier option for once, but I'll take it!)

StacyReneO

I prefer plain cake donuts to any other donut. We live 2 blocks from Krispy Kreme which doesn't do plain cake donuts. WTF?? My boyfriend has been dying for me to make Paleo donuts so I think I may buy one of those electric donut makers. I bought one for a friends kids last Christmas and they love it and use it all the time.

NYCNika

100 calorie donuts? I am intrigued. Can you post the recipe?

happysherri

Ditto! I need the recipe! Love Donuts.

Kelley528

100 calorie donuts? I am intrigued. Can you post the recipe?

Here is the recipe from the pan... I used skim milk instead of butter milk, all purpouse flour instead of cake flour but I had to add a packet of yeast to the flour to accomodate it. Cake flour was more expensive and I'm cheap. It still tasted good to us.


Baked Cake Donuts

2 cups cake flour, sifted
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. salt
¾ cup buttermilk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tbsp. butter, melted

Preheat oven to 425*F. Spray doughnut pan with nonstick cooking spray.

In a large mixing bowl, sift together cake flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Add buttermilk, eggs and butter. Beat until just combined. Fill each doughnut cup approx. 2/3 full.

Bake 7-9 minutes or until the top of the doughnuts spring back when touched.
Let cool in pan for 4-5 minutes before removing. Finish doughnut with chocolate glaze, cinnamon sugar or confectioners’ sugar. Doughnuts are best served fresh.

Makes 12 doughnuts

Francl27

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Made 6 with half the ingredients, 2% milk and pastry flour. Yummy... although definitely more cake-like than donut-y. I just put some cinnamon sugar on top. Definitely not 100 calories though... but 160 (counting the cinnamon sugar).

Will definitely make again though! Easy and delicious (I added cinnamon too). And kid approved.

eso2012

That sounds yummy!! We rarely eat donuts, but we do like the freshly baked "mini donuts" at Montana cookhouse. They serve them in a paper bag, shake to cover with sugar. very little, perfect as a post dinner treat with dark coffee.

970Mikaela1

Thank the lord no one has slandered Krispy Kreme in this thread.

Francl27

Thank the lord no one has slandered Krispy Kreme in this thread.

I like Krispy Kreme, but we won't have any over here. Only Dunkin Donuts, and not a fan. Although I'm sure Wegman's donuts are delicious... but still at least 30% more calories.

stealthq

Thank the lord no one has slandered Krispy Kreme in this thread.

Oooh, oooh, can I be the first :bigsmile:

Below qualified by the fact that I am a HUGE cake donut fan. No fried donuts wanted here. Unless they're beignets ...

Seriously, not a fan of Krispy Kreme. Something about the thought of "hot liquid donuts" just makes my skin crawl. Probably because I imagine drinking thick sugar syrup. Blech.

It's still slightly better than one of the other local donut shops: "Hot Creamy Donuts". Ick. Sounds a little to intimate for a breakfast food, KWIM?