Cinnamon Sugar Baked Donut Recipe (2024)

Breakfast is without a doubt my family’s favorite meal. We love lazy weekend mornings in our PJ’s and cooking up something yummy and homemade that gets the whole house smelling sweet. These occasions are becoming increasingly rare as our kids get older and our weekend calendars fill-up. So, when we do get one of these rare mornings together we take advantage of it. Probably the most requested item from my kiddos on these occasions is baked donuts and specifically this cinnamon sugar baked donut recipe.

Ingredients You’ll Need for our Cinnamon Sugar Baked Donut Recipe:

3 Tbsp melted butter

3 Tbsp Coconut Oil

1 cup Milk

1 egg

3/4 cup White Flour

3/4 cup Wheat Flour

1 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Sugar

1/2 tsp Salt

1 Tbsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Cinnamon Sugar:

1/2 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

Time to Make the Donuts:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a Donut Panwith butter or vegetable oil. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder. In a second bowl, cream together the butter, coconut oil and the sugar and then mix in the milk, egg and vanilla. Add half the flour mixture in and stir just still combined, then add in the rest of the flour mixture and stir again just until combined. You don’t want to over-stir or you may end up with chewy donuts.

If you have a piping bag for frosting you are welcome to use that for this next step, but we just use a ziploc bag. Scoop the batter into the ziploc and then cut a small portion of one of the corners off. Squeeze the batter through the hole and into the donut pan so that it is about 1/2 full. Bake the donuts for 10-12 minutes, using a toothpick to test for doneness.

Move the donuts to a cooling rack so you can prepare the next batch. While the donuts are cooking, prepare your cinnamon and sugar mixture by combining the cup of sugar with the teaspoon of cinnamon. In a separate bowl, big enough to dip a donut into, melt the 1/2 cup of butter.

Before the donuts cool too much, dip the top of each into the butter and then the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Serve ASAP so they are still warm and gooey. While they are best fresh out of the oven, they will store for a day or two in an air-tight container. Warm them up in the microwave for 20-30 seconds and they still are darn good with a hot cup of coffee.

If you like this recipe, you may also like:

Baked Eggnog Donuts

White Chocolate Cupcakes

Crock Pot Mac and Cheese

Do you have any weekend family favorite breakfasts like our easy baked donut recipe?