Baked Eggnog Donuts with Eggnog Icing Sugar Glaze

Name: Baked Eggnog Donuts
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 31 min
Yield: 6 donuts
Ingredients: 1 cup cake flour (-or all purpose flour); 1/4 cup sugar; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp nutmeg; 1/3 cup eggnog; 1 egg (-I used 'large'); 1/4 cup unsalted butter (-melted); 1.5 tsp rum extract (-or vanilla extract); sprinkles (-garnish (optional)); baking spray (-to grease pan); 1 cup icing sugar; 4 tsp milk; pinch freshly grated nutmeg

December 16, 2018 Updated: May 4, 2019 By Dawn Coombs 33 Comments

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These Baked Eggnog Donuts have eggnog (of course) and warming spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Topped with an eggnog infused icing sugar glaze and sprinkles, they make for a delicious, festive holiday treat!

Baked Eggnog Donuts – an Easy Holiday Dessert!

Hey friends! I’m managing to sneak one more festive holiday dessert in before Christmas! Can I get a virtual high five? Don’t have to twist my arm to use some eggnog (or to eat donuts, if I’m being honest here). The countdown is on in our home.

I didn’t grow up enjoying eggnog but, like I mentioned before, it’s something hubby and I regularly stock during the holidays. It’s a good thing that it’s only around for a month or so because it definitely is a decadent treat. Plus, this is a great recipe to use leftover eggnog you may have!

Despite having eggnog and icing sugar and all that good stuff, these baked donuts are not overly sweet. They’re a great way to mix up that cookie tray for Santa 😉

How to Make Baked Donuts

Once you’ve made donuts at home, there’s no going back. Theses baked eggnog donuts literally take minutes to whip up and less than 10 minutes to bake. The hardest part is waiting for them to cool before glazing. So, how do you make baked donuts? It’s easy –

Mix together dry ingredients (sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg).
Mix together wet ingredients (eggnog, melted butter, egg and rum extract).
Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients, scraping bowl with a spatula to get all the batter.
Pour batter into prepared (aka greased) donut pan and bake.

Tips for Making these Christmas Donuts

Cake flour was used here, but all purpose will work in a pinch. For more info on when you should use a particular type of flour, this is a great guide.
Rum extract was used, but if you don’t have that on hand, no worries! Use vanilla extract.
Regular eggnog was used (aka not ‘light’). Use whichever variety you prefer.
If you want to add another element of flavour to these baked donuts, brown the butter. I talk about it here.
Let the donuts cool completely before glazing. Otherwise, the glaze will ‘melt’ into the donut.
Garnish with sprinkles as soon as you ice the donuts so those suckers will stick.
These donuts are best enjoyed the day they are made.

Other Easy Holiday Desserts you May Enjoy

Hope you’ve enjoyed these easy eggnog baked donuts!

Until next time take care and chit chat again soon 🙂

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Stacks of baked donuts alongside a dish of sprinkles.

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