Choose your own adventure with these easy baked donuts that you can make three ways: Maple Bacon Donuts, Milk and Cereal Donuts, or Coffee and Chocolate Donuts!
Spring is here in Southern California and that always makes me want to enjoy lazy mornings, stay in my pajamas, throw open all the windows to let in the morning breeze, and make something indulgent for breakfast. And today I’m partnering with Safeway to do just that. So, put on some comfy pajamas, open up those windows, and let’s bake something yummy. How do donuts sound? I’m a big fan of baked over deep-fried donuts. Traditional donuts are great, but with the baked version, you don’t have to heat up huge quantities of oil, they’re fast to make, and they are SO EASY. Plus, they just plain taste good, especially the donuts I’m sharing today. These little babies are SO good. They are made with sour cream in the batter, so they are moist, soft, and just a little bit tangy, which is the beeeest. And the recipe is super simple. You just need one bowl, five minutes to mix everything together, and you are 12 minutes of oven time away from some seriously fabulous donuts. And since a baked donut without toppings is basically just a muffin with a hole in it, I shopped Safeway’s Signature line to create THREE fabulous topping options for you.
This was a really fun post to put together. There were so many ways I could have gone with these toppings because the Signature line, available exclusively at Safeway, is HUGE (more than 4,000!! products), with everything from coffee to juice, soup to cereal, and produce to fried chicken. I use a lot of Signature products since I genuinely do find them to be the best meeting of quality and price, but I didn’t realize just how big the line was until I was walking around Safeway and actually started looking. The Signature line includes Signature SELECT™, Signature Kitchens®™, Signature Farms®™, Signature Cafe®, Signature Home™, and Signature Care™, which encompass everything from fresh produce and pantry staples to prepared foods, and all of their products come with a 100% money back guarantee. I actually had trouble narrowing down which products I wanted to use (seriously, this post could have been Baked Donuts 599 ways), but I eventually narrowed it down to three faves, starting with MAPLE BACON DONUTS!! Yes, they are as amazing as they sound. The maple glaze on these donuts is the best. It tastes exactly like the frosting you get on a really good bakery maple bar. And to add to the amazing, you sprinkle some crispy Signature Farms Thick Cut Hickory Smoked Bacon over the top. These donuts are fabulous. Enough said. Moving on. Next up, Milk and Cereal Donuts.
These donuts are made with a simple milk glaze and then dunked in a bowl of cereal. They are basically the cutest things ever, and the crunch of the Honey Nut Toasted Oats is such a fun contrast with the soft and fluffy donut. Finally, we come to the Coffee and Chocolate Donuts. For those worrying about the coffee in the recipe, don’t. I used Safeway’s House Blend, which is a very smooth medium roast. There are just a couple tablespoons of it in the glaze, so the coffee taste is mild and there to enhance the chocolate flavor, and that chocolate flavor is FAB because this glaze is made with real melted chocolate, not cocoa powder. If you are a traditionalist and bacon and cereal on your donuts is too far out there, these are the way to go!
Which donut topping would you try first?
