Have you ever made my homemade glazed donuts before? If you have (or even if you haven’t!), you should most definitely try the same donut recipe with various donut frostings. Time to expand the menu! Today I’m showing you how to make 3 donut frosting flavors, including: I also have a recipe for homemade maple bacon donuts, just in case you want to win at breakfast and make all 4 flavors. 😉 PS: These frostings also work wonderfully for eclairs!
Quick Overview: Homemade Frosted Donuts
Start with your favorite recipe for homemade donuts. The ones you see pictured here are my homemade glazed donuts. These classic donuts are made from yeasted dough and fried in oil. You need a handful of basic ingredients including milk, yeast, sugar, eggs, butter, salt, vanilla, flour, and a touch of ground nutmeg. A little nutmeg is the secret ingredient to that cozy, comforting bakery donut taste. The process is pretty straightforward, and today you can replace the glaze with classic frosting and sprinkles. If you prefer baked, cake-style donuts, you can use this recipe for baked cinnamon sugar donuts; you’ll replace the cinnamon sugar topping with these donut frostings. As soon as your donuts are fried or baked, you can dip them—while they’re still warm—in these frostings and add your toppings! All 3 of these donut frostings come together in just minutes.
Strawberry Donut Frosting
The strawberry frosting is more like a glaze, but if you double-dunk the donuts, you’ll have a nice thick strawberry coating made from real strawberries. You need just 4 ingredients: Start by pureeing 5 large strawberries in a food processor or blender. Then simply whisk the strawberry puree with the rest of the ingredients. Your strawberry donuts will have delicious real strawberry flavor, and look so pretty in pink!
Vanilla Donut Frosting
Here’s everything you need for the vanilla frosting: Whisk it all together, and you’re ready to dunk!
Chocolate Donut Frosting
For the chocolate frosting, you’ll start with real chocolate and melt it together with the rest of the ingredients: Warning: The second those warm donuts hit the chocolate glaze, your house will immediately smell like chocolate cake. PERFECTION.
How to Frost Donuts
This is easy! Grab the warm donuts and dip the tops into the frosting. To keep the mess to a minimum (but this still gets messy!), place the frosted donuts on a wire cooling rack over a lined baking sheet. The baking sheet can catch any frosting that drips down.
Frosted Donut Toppings
I always reach for sprinkles, of course, but feel free to get creative with your donut toppings. Set out bowls of fun cereals (think Fruity Pebbles or Lucky Charms), crushed Oreos or graham crackers, chopped nuts, shredded coconut, freeze-dried berries, and mini chocolate chips, and let your lucky donut eaters create their own donut masterpieces! Homemade Frosted Donuts Party, anyone?
More Donut Flavors
Pumpkin Donuts Berry Fritters Apple Cider Donuts Maple Bacon Donuts Lemon Poppy Seed Donuts Crumb Cake Donuts
