Gingerbread Nutella Donuts

I LOVE the holidays! The music, the movies, the chill in the air, and love all around! But most of all I LOVE holiday baking! My family as I’m sure yours too, always have our traditional recipes we simply have to make every year, and these are recipes that only come out for Christmas. However I really enjoy creating and discovering new ideas each year to try out. Recently I’ve been a Pinteresting fiend in regards to donuts and I stumbled upon a few recipes that gave me a great idea; Gingerbread Nutella Donuts! I combined two types of donut ideas and created my own recipe that turned out pretty darn well if I do say so myself. These yummy baked cake donuts are covered in a thick nutella icing and colorful sprinkles and are simple and delicious. Not too rich, but packed with christmasy flavor!

These donuts are a great to make ahead for Christmas morning, or a holiday brunch at the office, or even packed in cute boxes with bows for gift giving if you’re on a budget! They definitely won’t disappoint! I hope you enjoy the donut of the month and Happy Holidays!   

Gingerbread Donuts (This recipe makes about 12 donuts)

1 cup All Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

¼ tsp Baking Soda

¼ tsp Salt

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Ground Ginger

¼ tsp Allspice

¼ tsp Ground Cloves

¼ Cup Brown Sugar

1 Egg (Room Temp)

3 Tbsp Molasses

1/3 Cup Milk (Room Temp)

1 ½ tsp Vanilla extract

3 Tbsp Melted Butter (NOT HOT!)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With cooking spray lightly grease donut pan. In a large mixing bowl whisk together all dry ingredients. In a smaller bowl whisk egg then add remaining ingredients. (It’s important everything be room temperature or the butter will harden back up and you’ll have curdily, gross mess.)

Fold wet ingredients into dry until just combined. Pour into piping bag and cut off tip. Pipe into donut pan filling each ¾ full. Bake 8-9minutes. Cool completely before icing.

 

Nutella Icing

½ Cup Powdered Sugar

1 Tbsp Hot Water

2 Tbsp Nutella

Using a fork stir together sugar and water. Once combined switch to a rubber spatula and add Nutella mixing until smooth. Ice cooled donuts using your finger very gently so not to tear the donuts.I know this sounds weird but the icing is a bit thick and goes on much better this way and gives you the most control. Top with sprinkles of your choice and enjoy with a cold glass of milk!

**Sprinkle tip: If you want to coat the top of the donut with sprinkles instead of a light dusting pour a lot of sprinkles on a plate and dip the entire top of the donut in the sprinkles pressing gently. Tis the season to be generous with the sugar!