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. 
- 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
- ½ c butter, melted
- 1 c brown sugar, packed
- 2 t cinnamon
- 2 T cream cheese, softened
- 2 T milk
- 1 c powdered sugar
- 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 ¾ 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.
Aubrey, I have got to get a donut pan! These sound wonderful and I love that you not only added the cinnamon and sugar but then you iced them with a cream cheese frosting. Over the top!
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Joan, you just made my night!!!!!!!!!! I love that you came on over. I am seriously on cloud nine.
Oh my goodness…those are adorable!!
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Thanks Diana! I love my little mini donut pan but I MAY have a problem with portion control. They’re just so small I can eat 20
Too cute to eat!! Love little food. Thanks for sharing over at Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky Party. Hope you’ll join in again tomorrow!
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