Maple Bacon Donuts
These Baked Maple Bacon Donuts begin with a baked cake donut topped with an irresistible maple glaze and crispy bacon. A perfect fall breakfast!
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 Tbsp sour cream (or Greek yogurt)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
Maple Glaze
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
Topping
- 2-3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
Instructions
Donuts
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and coat your donut pan with baking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon together. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, buttermilk, sour cream, and vanilla extract together.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, then mix until just combined.
- Add in melted butter and mix until combined.
- With a spoon, scoop the batter into each donut cavity, filling about 2/3 of the way full. (This recipe yields about 7-8 donuts, and most donut pans have 6 cavities, so you will have some leftover batter for another batch.)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the donuts are lightly golden brown and spring back when touched.
- Allow to cool a few minutes before removing from the donut pan.
Maple Glaze
- In a small saucepan, melt butter and maple syrup together over low heat. Once melted, pull off of the heat.
- Sift the powdered sugar into the maple syrup, then whisk until smooth.
- Add in the vanilla extract and cinnamon. Whisk until combined.
- Allow the glaze to cool for a few minutes so it can set up. You’ll know it’s set up when it hardens on top. Once it does that, give it a quick whisk.
- Dunk each donut about halfway into the glaze, then place it on a wire rack to let the excess glaze drip off. If desired, dunk each donut again to double glaze the donuts.*
- Top each donut with your cooked and crumbled bacon while the glaze is still wet.
- Serve.
Notes
*If you plan to double glaze, let the first round of glazing set before you dunk them a second time. It only takes a couple of minutes for the glaze to set.