These white chocolate cake doughnuts are a classic. Light and fluffy cake doughnut dipped in a thick white chocolate glaze and liberally sprinkled. Perfect for end-of-the-week hoorays or any time of the week honestly.
About these white chocolate cake doughnuts
These doughnuts are something else. They have the ability to convert the toughest yeasted-doughnut advocate. Cake doughnuts have a bad rep for being dense and dry and I don’t blame you for losing complete faith in them.
I mean, how many times do we have to get deceived by the thick layer of glaze on the old fashioned Timbit before we realize that it hides nothing but a crumbly dough ball?
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But these, you guys, THESE cake doughnuts will restore your faith in all cake doughnuts! They are fluffy and light and packed with a huge kick of vanilla flavour that is usually muted or disgustingly artificial. Instead of a regular icing sugar and milk glaze, I used a white chocolate glaze which goes on much thicker to get that closer ratio of glaze:doughnut. Plus, it’s the perfect vehicle for SPRINKLES.
But these, you guys, THESE cake doughnuts will restore your faith in all cake doughnuts! They are fluffy and light and packed with a huge kick of vanilla flavour that is usually muted or disgustingly artificial. Instead of a regular icing sugar and milk glaze, I used a white chocolate glaze which goes on much thicker to get that closer ratio of glaze:doughnut. Plus, it’s the perfect vehicle for SPRINKLES.
I made these for a client who wanted to bring doughnuts for her son’s last day of school and they were a huge hit with the kiddos! Apologies about the poor photos, I did not intend for these white chocolate vanilla cake doughnuts to become a recipe post so these were only taken with my cell phone.
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Video Tutorial – Watch on YouTube
If you’re more of a visual learner, I made a video for this recipe which is now posted on my Youtube channel.
My friend, Henry, dropped by randomly while I was baking and he was like, “We should film this”. And I said, “We should”.
So while I did my thing and baked, he set up cameras around me filmed! It only took us about 45 minutes to get all the footage of these white chocolate vanilla cake doughnuts. But then it took us 8 months to roll out the video. Here it is finally!
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Recipe for White Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
White Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
These white chocolate cake doughnuts are a classic. Light and fluffy cake doughnut dipped in a thick white chocolate glaze and liberally sprinkled. Perfect for end-of-the-week hoorays or any time of the week honestly.
Ingredients
Vanilla Cake Doughnut
- 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
White Chocolate Glaze
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 3/4 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup white chocolate melted and cooled
Instructions
Vanilla Cake Doughnut
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together melted butter, vegetable oil, sugar
- Whisk in eggs one at a time then mix in vanilla extract
- Alternate adding 1/3 of flour mixture and 1/2 of milk to the wet mixture, beginning and ending with flour, mix until well blended and incorporated but do not overmix
- Fill piping bag with dough and pipe into oiled doughnut pan
- Bake for 7 - 8 minutes or until toothpick inserted into doughnut comes out clean
- Cool completely before glazing
White Chocolate Glaze
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together milk and confectioner's sugar until smooth
- Add in vanilla, whisk
- Add in melted and cooled white chocolate, whisk until glaze is shiny and smooth
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Doughnuts adapted from King Arthur Flour
Glaze from Deliciously Yum
Nice! They look marvelous! and I liked your video too! I love making videos…so much fun!
Does the white chocolate icing stay pretty solid overnight? Or does it weep like a regular glaze? I’ve been struggling with weepy icing so stopped using plain glaze. I tried candy melts but it was too thick and goopy (but tasted good); tried plain glaze which looked amazing but was weeping the 2nd day.
Hey you! The white chocolate stayed BEAUTIFUL and solid overnight. The next day the donuts still tasted FRESH because the coating was so thick and sturdy. No weeping problems at all because of the chocolate chemical structure. The only thing is make sure that the chocolate was tempered before adding it to the glaze 🙂
These donuts are absolutely FLAWLESS!
I know right?! I was incredibly surprised by how it turned out. I give all credit to the chocolate in the glaze (chemical structure of the chocolate makes it sturdy) and the sprinkles 😀