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Homemade cake donuts with sweet glaze

Name: Homemade cake donuts with sweet glaze
Yield: About 15 donuts
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 350 g Flour; 100 g Sugar; 1/2 packet Baking powder; 2 Eggs; 200 ml Milk; 40 g Butter; for frying Vegetable oil

Homemade donuts made with baking powder, chilled for an hour, fried until golden, and finished with a sweet glaze. Makes about 15.

American cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Servings: About 15 donuts
Difficulty: Easy

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Donuts are classic American ring-shaped pastries topped with a sweet glaze instead of a filling. The dough, made with flour, sugar, eggs, milk, and butter, is leavened with baking powder, so it needs no rising time—just an hour in the refrigerator. It is then shaped into rings with holes in the center and fried in hot oil until golden brown. Once cooled, the donuts are decorated with a sweet glaze of your choice.

Instructions

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Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the remaining ingredients. Mix and knead the dough using a stand mixer.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Shape the dough into rings, making a hole in the center of each.
Heat the oil in a pot and fry the donuts until golden brown.
Let the donuts cool on a plate lined with paper towels. Then sprinkle with sugar or drizzle with a glaze of your choice.

Tip: Cut out the rings with a large glass and the holes with a bottle cap so the donuts are the same size and can be fried together. Fry the cutout centers too to make little donut holes.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 146 kcal
Protein: 3.7 g
Carbohydrates: 25 g
of which sugars: 7.4 g
Fat: 3.3 g
of which saturates: 1.8 g
Fiber: 0.6 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Šišky s dierkou – donuty so sladkou polevou