Cinnamon Donuts with Vanilla Glaze

My sister turned 23! I just can’t believe it! She will always be my little sister but that just means the older she gets, the older I’m getting! Because she is my PIC in my baking madness, I wanted to dedicate the next few posts to her. I baked quite a bit for her birthday week and here are some recipes and pictures of what we did. Needless to say we were on a sugar high for that week but it was quite nice and I’m grateful every day to have such a kind, funny, talented, and all around awesome sister. Love you and to many more happy and sweet birthdays!

To start it all off, I made her some donuts! She loves cinnamon flavored treats and I though this was perfect to start off her birthday 🙂 Also, these donuts are baked so no need to fry anything or feel guilty later!

Ingredients

Donuts:

1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup sugar
1½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup milk
½ teaspoon white vinegar
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 egg
4 tablespoons butter, softened

Glaze:

2 tablespoons milk
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; set aside. In a small saucepan bring together the milk, white vinegar, vanilla, egg, and butter. Cook over medium-heat, stirring constantly with a whisk until the butter melts, about one minute. Remove from heat.

Add the milk mixture into the flour mixture; mix until combined.

Using a large tablespoon, spoon the doughnut mixture into an ungreased doughnut pan.

Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove and immediately invert the pan onto a cooling rack. While the doughnuts are cooling, begin to work on the glaze.

Glaze

Place all the ingredients in a small saucepan and cook over medium-heat, stirring constantly just until combined and no lumps appear. Set the saucepan over a bowl filled with hot water.

Dip the doughnuts into the glaze, one at a time, and set on a rack, glaze side up. Put something underneath the rack because some of that glaze will drip off.