Homemade Mini Donuts with Chai Spiced Sugar

A few years ago my daughter got the cutest Dash mini donut maker for her birthday from my brother. We don’t make mini donuts often but when we do we love to roll them in a homemade chai spiced sugar or cinnamon sugar. These mini donuts make a great grab and go breakfast or after school treat. This recipe makes ~21 mini donuts.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 egg
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Chai Spiced sugar (ingredients listed below) or Cinnamon sugar
• Additional 4 tablespoons butter (separate from above butter)

Chai Spiced Sugar – combine all ingredients in a small bowl and store in a glass jar.

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons cardamom
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Step One: Plug in your mini donut maker to let it pre-heat.

Step Two: Melt the butter in a medium size glass bowl. Then add in the vanilla, egg, and milk, whisk.

Step Three: Add in your dry ingredients; flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix well until fully combined.

Step Four: Scoop the donut batter into a quart sized ziplock bag and seal. Spray the donut molds with non-stick cooking spray. Snip off a very small portion of the corner of the bag and then squeeze the batter into the molds until they are 3/4 full.

Step Five: Close the top of the donut maker and bake for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Open and flip the donuts over and bake for another 2 minutes. Set aside. Repeat this process with remaining batter. You will do 3 batches in total.

Step Six: Melt the additional 4 tablespoons of butter in a small bowl.

Step Seven: Add 1/4 cup of the chai spiced sugar in another small bowl and cinnamon sugar in another small bowl (if using).

Step Eight: Quickly add one mini donut at a time to the melted butter bowl and turn over, then put the donut in either the chai spiced sugar or the cinnamon sugar. Repeat for all mini donuts.

Eat hot and fresh or you can store the mini donuts in an air tight container and reheat in the microwave at a later time.

Enjoy!