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Mini Donuts

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

When food is fun, everyone wants to eat it. And when it’s easy to make, moms have no problem making fun food for their kids. These pancake mini donuts are fun and easy to make for breakfast, or for lunch.

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast - donuts stacked on a plate

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I don’t know about you, but I hate trying to flip pancakes. I haven’t made pancakes in almost two years, which I just this minute realized because our gridle broke and we have stainless steel pots and pans and I’m not sure how to keep pancakes from sticking in them.

What you need:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 3/4 cup milk

What you need for the glaze:

  • 1/4 cup of melted margarine or water
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp maple extract
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
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How to make Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast

How do you make these? Simple.

Mix together your butter, egg, and sugar. Mix until smooth. Then add the baking powder and salt. alternate between adding in flour and milk.

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Making Mini Donuts

I ended up buying a handy batter dispenser recently for making my mini donuts because we were going through Ziploc bags like crazy around. You can of course use a Ziploc bag as a piping bag, or an actual piping bag to easily fill your mini donut pan.

You can see how I use a piping bag to fill our mini donut maker molds.

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast - filling the pancake dispenser

Now the best part about using a mini donut maker is that you preheat it, fill the mold, close it until the green light turns on. Remove and get ready to serve them.

Now how are you going to serve your pancake mini donuts? You could top them with a little syrup, and then cut into you donuts, which kind of doesn’t seem donut like. OR you could top them with some glaze.

Making the Glaze

Simple to make because first thing in the morning no one wants to be thinking hard.

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, whisk until smooth.

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast - frosting in a bowl

These pancake mix donuts are best served right away. Store leftovers in an air tight container.

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast - donuts stacked on a plate

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast

Yield: 40
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

These pancake mini donuts for breakfast are a fun way to have breakfast every once in awhile.

Ingredients

Pancake Mini Donuts

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 3/4 cup milk

Maple Glaze

  • 1/4 cup of melted margarine or water
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp maple extract
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

    1. Mix together your butter, egg, and sugar.
    2. Mix until smooth-ish.
    3. Then add the baking powder and salt. alternate between adding in flour and milk.
    4. Mix until smooth, no lumps.
    5. Pour into either your piping bag or pancake batter dispenser.
    6. Pour little bits into the donut molds.
    7. Cook until the light on your donut maker says they are finished or until golden brown and cooked through.
    8. While your donuts are cooking, mix up the glaze.
    9. Dip the donuts in the glaze and set aside for breakfast. Best enjoyed while still warm.
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Breakfast

You can use any pancake recipe you want, and just make them in your mini donut maker to be honest. Why mess with a good thing when you love your pancake recipe?

Pancake Mini Donuts for Breakfast

I hope you and your kids enjoy these are much as we did!

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Donut Fractions – Fun Math Center

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Math and donuts go together right? Or at least they definitely can and should. We love to bake together, and we love snacks. Math, well, math is often a little more hit and miss in the love department. When you make math fun, everything is better. This donut fraction math center is great for practicing and learning fractions.

Mini Donut fractions

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We’re mini donut crazy here. They are easy to make, and you can make so many different flavors.

Donut Fractions – Fun Math Center

What do you get with this math center?

  • examples of different fractions
  • different sets of donut fractions for students to fill in
  • donut fractions for creating your own fractions
  • and more!

You get a recipe for simple mini donuts as bonus.

Print off the pages, and laminate for durability. Use Velcro on the loose pieces and the fill in the circle pieces to help them stay in place while students work on them.

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We like to make some mini donuts before we start these because then we eat eat donuts by taking fraction sized bites out of them.

Donut Fractions

You may also want to check out the donut writing and art set to include more subjects in your mini donut learning fun.

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Donut Creative Writing with Art

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

You know what seems to be really popular here on Forgetful Momma? Mini donuts. I mean, who doesn’t love mini donuts? They were in the inspiration behind this donut creative writing and art printable. Because we not only love to eat them, but we like to decorate them too, and anything can become a homeschool lesson.

Mini Donuts creative writing

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If we had to label our homeschool style I would say we’re eclectic homeschoolers, almost unschoolers. We learn from everything that is happening, whether that is ripping a wall out of our kitchen – which we did right before Christmas. Or it’s making mini donuts.

Donut Creative Writing with An Art Element

Making mini donuts is actually really easy, and your kids could easily make them themselves. With that in mind I made this fun creative writing set with an art element. Because my kids, like so many other kids, love to be creative.

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The idea behind this is simple.

Work your way through the pages, including the final drawing page. All your child is doing, is designing a donut. They will be asked to:

  • describe it – stating their option, and reasoning for their choices
  • sketch out how you want might want it to look
  • a final picture of how you are going to decorate your mini donut

How We Use This Mini Donut Printable

I might make the mini donuts myself while they are working on their designs.

I might let them make these their self before or after creating their designs. There really is no wrong way.

I enjoy making and serving mini donuts before we have tea time, or before we sit down to watch a documentary on Curiosity Stream. It makes it a good full afternoon of learning covering different subjects this way.

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Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts Recipe

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

There is something about mini donuts. They are just a fun snack, no matter your age. We have been loving them, and when you pair them with some hot chocolate in the cooler weather, they are even better. I don’t know why it took me so long to make chocolate chip mini donuts.

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

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This is an easy to make mini donut recipe. We use this with our mini donut maker, it takes no time at all to have them ready for a snack.

Your kids will not only love to eat them, but they’ll love making them with you too. These are perfect for making with your kids, or for letting them make them themselves.

What you need:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons melted butter
  • 1/2 cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips
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How to Make Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

In a large bowl mix together your flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

Then add in your milk, eggs, vanilla and melted butter, and continue to mix it until well combined.

Stir in the chocolate chips with a spoon. You could use mini chocolate chips, but I didn’t have anymore on hand from making these before.

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

Pour batter into your preheated mini donut maker. Don’t forget to use a non-stick spray!

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

Remove your mini donuts from your mini donut maker to cool on a wire cooling rack. You could add some frosting to these, but I think they are sweet enough without frosting.

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

Chocolate Chip Mini Donuts

Yield: 24
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 minute
Total Time: 11 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons melted butter
  • 1/2 cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Add milk, eggs, vanilla and butter, continuing to beat it until well combined.
  2. Stir in the chocolate chips with a spoon.
  3. Pour batter into your mini donut maker.
  4. Remove from pan.



© Ashley Mullen

How to Make Donuts in A Donut Maker

In case you just got your mini donut maker and you are looking to see exactly how to it, this post is for you: How to Use a Mini Donut Maker. I show you how I do it easily with a Ziploc bag.

I have bought a handle batter dispenser for using when making mini donuts, however, this batter is too thick, and the regular sized chocolate chips wouldn’t move through it easily.

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Lemon Mini Donut Recipe

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

These mini donuts are perfect for me. I just love lemon everything, and lemon desserts are a definite favorite. These lemon mini donuts are easy to make, when you are using you mini donut maker, and a crowd pleaser.

Lemon mini donuts

Lemon Mini Donut Recipe

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These are relatively simple mini donuts to make. Simple is my favorite way to do things, I don’t have a million hours in a day to make fun treats for my kids and I. With homeschooling, and homesteading, and blogging, my time is filled quite quickly.

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What you need:

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
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How to make Lemon Mini Donuts

This is another easy mini donut recipe prefect for your mini donut maker. We love lemon so it was about time for me to make a lemon donut recipe.

Start by mixing together your dry ingredients and then add in your wet ingredients one at a time mix in between.

I choose to pour my batter into a bag, like a piping bag to make it easier to fill the mini donut maker molds.

Lemon mini donuts

Using my mini donut maker keeps the heat out of my kitchen, and we get a fun, easy to make snack, quite quickly as it only take a few minutes to cook each batch.

The little light will turn green with they are finished, they are light brown and fluffy. Set them aside to cool.

Mini Donut Frosting

This time I used lemon juice and icing sugar for our frosting. Wait until your mini donuts have cooled down and then dip them into the frosting.

And then try to save some to share with others.

Lemon mini donuts

Lemon Mini Donuts

Yield: 48
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Additional Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Easy, lemony mini donuts ready in no time at all.

Ingredients

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. This is another easy mini donut recipe prefect for your mini donut maker. We love lemon so it was about time for me to make a lemon donut recipe.
  2. Start by mixing together your dry ingredients and then add in your wet ingredients one at a time mix in between. I choose to pour my batter into a bag, like a piping bag to make it easier to fill the mini donut maker molds. Using my mini donut maker keeps the heat out of my kitchen, and we get a fun, easy to make snack, quite quickly as it only take a few minutes to cook each batch.
  3. The little light will turn green with they are finished, they are light brown and fluffy. Set them aside to cool.
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Snacks
Lemon mini donuts

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