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Donuts for Days! Our Favorite Recipes for This Breakfast Classic

Put a ring donut on it.🍩

When it comes to breakfast, we donut mess around. Baked or fried, these treats basically guarantee a good morning. And while we know that classic vs. cake is at the center of every donut debate, we've got a hot take on this hot button issue: We want both.

Some mornings, we take one bite of a classic donut, followed by one bite of a cake donut, followed by one bite of a classic donut, followed by … well, you get the idea. So, dear donut community, let's not focus on our differences. There's no need to argue over which donuts are best when we can all agree that having donuts is THE BEST.

Now that we're in agreement, let's dive into our best ever donut recipes — baked and fried — so we can treat ourselves to the most important meal of the day … donuts!

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Classic Fried Donuts With Glazes and Fillings

If your donut experience won't be complete without springy dough fried to golden-brown perfection, then you need a classic donut recipe with a tasty twist. We've gotchu.

Our #bakeyouhappy classes regularly feature donut making tutorials. An expert baker will teach you a hole lot about donuts, including how to make a dough, glaze, and filling. We also cover not-so-basic techniques like making a marble glaze and decorating your donuts to hipster-approved perfection.

Past donut recipes from our expert bakers have included lemon meringue pie 🍋, maple bacon 🍁🥓, and cotton candy flavors 🍬 — you may never need to go to a fancy donut shop again.

Sun & Cloud Mini Lemon Donuts

We made this recipe to let the world know how we feel about donuts: They're our sunshine on a cloudy day. And because the recipe is perfect for beginner donut makers, it can bring sunshine into anyone's life. 🌞

To make it, you'll mix up the ingredients for a lemon dough, 🍋 pipe it into a donut pan, and bake it in the oven — there's no need to wait for your dough to rise or work with hot oil. It's easy, peasy, lemon donut squeezy!

You'll make the glaze with melted candy wafers, and decorate with buttercream and sprinkles. We used the blends from our Monthly Sprinkle Service, which is also where we originally shared this recipe.

Butterfinger Donuts

Crispity, crunchity, and already causing serious cravings, Yo's Butterfinger Donut Cakes have got something going for them that your typical donut does not: Size. These donuts are the size of a cake, which means this might be the first time ever that we only eat one donut. (And yes, we're planning on eating a whole one).

You'll bake these peanut-buttery masterpieces in two full-size donut pans (you can also use bundt pans in a pinch!). Stick the two donut halves together to make a donut whole, and add butterfinger icing in the middle. Then, decorate with a classic donut glaze and more crunchy candies.

Colored Choc Drizzle Donuts

We're always getting inspo from bakers we love and admire — we even started a book club dedicated to hunting down the best baking books! 📚 This month, we got some serious donut inspo from "Baking Happiness" by Rosie Madaschi.

Her donut recipe is baked and topped with a colorful chocolate drizzle. Her desserts are seriously bright — it's baking us happy just thinking about them. 😊

To celebrate this colorful creation, we made it this month's Bakebook Club challenge. Members of the club will be baking these donuts all month long and posting their versions in our secret clubhouse/Facebook group. (Oops, looks like the secret is out! 🤷) Whoever makes the best Colored Choc Drizzle Donuts will win a grand prize!

Think you've got what it takes? Sign up to get the recipe and show us your best Colored Choc Drizzle Donuts.

🍩✨WE GO NUTS FOR DONUTS✨🍩

Donuts are basically a dessert that you can eat as a meal without anyone questioning you — that might make them the most powerful food in the world. And since breakfast is the most important meal of the day, we consider donuts a VIB (Very Important Bake).

Harness the power of donuts in our own kitchen by trying out one of our donut recipes. But remember, with great power, comes great responsibility (i.e., please share — the world needs more delicious donuts!). For more shareable sweets, check out our recipes. There's a hole lot going on!