Cinnamon Roll Mini Donuts

A couple of weeks ago I made a Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake. It was delicious and started my craving on a VERY regular basis for cinnamon sugar. As a kid one of my favorite treats was cinnamon toast. I love the warm buttery cinnamon sugar when it’s first out of the oven. I also LOVE cinnamon rolls with the ooey gooey cream cheese frosting on top of all the buttery cinnamon sugar. YUM!!!!! This past Christmas I got a mini donut pan from my mother-in-law and it has gone to good use. My first attempt was just plain Jane cake donuts. Now don’t get me wrong, cake donuts are my all time favorite donuts   I love the nutmeg and cinnamon with the dense cakey texture. Well, I decided that not being satisfied to eat my two favorite things separately I had to find a way to combine them and here they are. I am sharing with you what will soon be your favorite donut. (At least if you like cinnamon sugar.)  They are so easy to make and I made them with normal ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. They are so good that I would say if you don’t have a donut pan don’t let that stop you. Make them in a muffin tin and thank me later. 🙂

Cinnamon Roll Mini Donuts

These mini donuts combine the great taste and texture of a cake donut with the warm buttery cinnamon sugar flavors of a cinnamon roll.

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: 36

Calories: 111kcal

Author: Aubrey

Ingredients

Donut

• 2 c all-purpose flour
• ¾ c white sugar
• 2 t baking powder
• ¼ t ground nutmeg
• 1 t salt
• 1 T shortening
• ¾ milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 t vanilla extract

Cinnamon Topping

• ½ c butter melted
• 1 c brown sugar packed
• 2 t cinnamon

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 2 T cream cheese softened
• 2 T milk
• 1 c powdered sugar

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
• Grease the donut pan
• in a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt
• cut in shortening with a fork or your fingers
• in a small bowl combine milk, eggs and vanilla extract
• gradually pour milk mixture into dry ingredients and mix, dough will be thick
• spoon into a plastic storage bag and seal closed
• cut a small corner from the bottom and set aside
• spoon 1 teaspoon of cinnamon sugar mixture into each of the bottoms of the donut molds
• squeeze plastic bag to fill donut mold with dough
• each mold should be filled 3/4 of the way
• bake for 8-10 minutes until the top of the donut bounces back
• allow donuts to cool for 5-10 min and twist before removing from pan
• while they cool combine the cream cheese, milk and powdered sugar in a small bowl
• drizzle or dunk donut into cream cheese frosting.

Nutrition

Calories: 111kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 95mg | Potassium: 49mg | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.5mg

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