Baked Blackberry Glazed Donuts to kick off a new year
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Baked blackberry glazed donuts are spiked with chai spice blend and a bright happy glaze made with fresh blackberries. These are just the kind of simple baked donut to drive away the dreariness of a cloudy day.
Just like my cinnamon sugar donuts, these baked donuts are quick and easy to make and certainly more interesting than anything you can find in a donut shop. Really, you can think of this recipe as a template for making fresh berry glazes for any of your donuts, muffins, or quick breads. The bright color and vivid flavor are always welcome in any bake.
Let’s get into this!
Baked Blackberry Glazed Donuts
What you’ll love about these donuts
- Quick to make: You can get these donuts ready for the oven in about 10 minutes, so they’re quick enough for a before school breakfast.
- Interesting flavors: I love the combination of chai spice and blackberry. It’s bright and fruity and equally cozy and warm.
- So pretty!: The berries make for a technicolor glaze that catches the eye without creepy food colorings.
- Less sugar than a donut shop donut: No doubt there will be overall less sugar in each of these donuts than a typical donut you could buy at a shop. There’s enough that it feels like a treat but not so much that you get that donut slog feeling after eating one.
Ingredients for Baked Blackberry Glazed Donuts
Donut batter
- Butter
- All-purpose flour
- Brown sugar
- Baking powder
- Chai spice blend
- Salt
- Whole milk
- Egg
- Vanilla paste or vanilla extract
Blackberry glaze
- Powdered sugar
- Frozen blackberries
- Melted butter
Equipment you’ll need to make baked donuts
- Donut pans: I love the Wilton donut pans since they come in a 2-pack. I personally am using a Norpro donut pan (these show up at thrift stores all the time) and a Nordicware donut pan. Really, do go thrifting; I’ve seen many many donut pans there for just a couple bucks a piece.
- Cookie scoop: It’s helpful to use a cookie scoop to help you measure out the dough into the pans. The central spike can be weird to work around, so the scoop just makes things a little easier. I like my Vollrath purple (3/4 oz) scoop best here.
Tips for making awesome blackberry glazed donuts
- Use wet hands: When you’re getting the batter into the pans, dampen your hands just a bit to help push and shape the batter into the pan. This will keep the batter from sticking.
- Glaze right after baking: Baked donuts are a little drier than a typical fried donut. Dipping the donut in the glaze right after baking will help keep the donut moist.
- Add sprinkles right after the glaze: Be sure to scatter on some sprinkles right after you dip each donut in the glaze so that they actually stick. I’m using dye free sprinkles, but use what you have! Sprinkles make every donut happy.
Other fruity glaze flavors beyond blackberry
As I said, blackberry is just an idea. You can use any berry for a glaze here, and it would work just as well. Check my notes on the recipes for specific measurements. To be clear, the spices go in the batter and the fruit goes in the glaze. Here are my alternate TLDR flavor in the recipe.
- Strawberry + cardamom
- Blueberry + cinnamon
- Raspberry + vanilla sugar
- Cherries + almond extract
Baked Blackberry Glazed Donuts
- Total Time: 33 minutes
- Yield: 12 donuts 1x
Description
Simple to make baked donuts get a technicolor berry glaze for a bright happy donut that you can make in minutes. You’d pay way too much for these at a fancy pants donut shop, and you can stay in your slippers to boot.
Ingredients
Baked donut batter
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted (57 g)
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup whole milk, (177 mL)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or vanilla extract
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (276 g)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar (53 g)
- 2 and 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon chai spice blend or ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Blackberry glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar (120 g)
- 1/2 cup frozen blackberries (71 g)
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted (57 g)
- 2 tablespoons rainbow sprinkles
Instructions
Make the batter
- Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C).
- Melt the butter in a small pan. Brush 2 6-cavity donut pans with a little bit of the butter.
- Break the egg into the butter and then beat until the egg is smooth.
- Whisk in the milk and vanilla.
- Mix the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, chai spice, and salt, in a bowl. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the milk mixture.
- Stir to create a thick batter.
- Use a small cookie scoop to scoop 2 scoops of batter into each well of your pans. Drop the batter into the edges of each well, and then use lightly damp hands to press the dough into the pan.
Baking and finishing the donuts
- Bake the donuts for 16-18 minutes until the tops spring back when you touch them. Turn out the donuts onto a wire rack.
- Load up a blender jar with all of the glaze ingredients and then blend until smooth.
- Pour the glaze into a small bowl.
Dip the tops of the donuts into the glaze, and then scatter over some sprinkles into the wet glaze. Set the donuts to drain and for the glaze to set on the wire rack. - Enjoy the donuts right away with a good cup of coffee.
Notes
Swap your berries: Use whatever berries you have. Any frozen berries will make a good glaze, though you might want to adjust the spices. In place of the chai spice, use 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom with strawberries, 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar with raspberries, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon with blueberries, or cherries with 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Category: Morning breads
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 donut
- Calories: 205
- Sugar: 15.2 g
- Sodium: 101.5 mg
- Fat: 8.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 33 g
- Protein: 2.3 g
- Cholesterol: 20.4 mg
