Air-Fryer, Breakfast

Easy Air Fryer Donuts

Posted by Mama Woon on

These air fryer donuts are yeast-raised and every bit as delicious and soft as their deep-fried relatives. This really is a no compromise donut recipe – it’s a great way to use your air fryer.

So with these donuts, you get all the flavor and none of the oil or mess of deep frying. These are truly the Best Air Fryer Donuts!

I designed the glaze for these donuts to give the perfect balance of sweetness, just like Krispy Kreme donuts!

Ingredients

For the dough

  • 2 cups + 3 tbsp (280g) all-purpose flour
  • 3 tbsp (40g) white granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup (120g) whole milk
  • 3 tbsp (⅓ stick / 45g) unsalted butter, melted
  • 2 tsp (1 packet / 7g) dried yeast (any dried yeast will work—active or instant)

For the glaze

  • 2 cups (250g) powdered sugar
  • 5 tbsp (⅔ stick / 75g) unsalted butter
  • 3 – 5 tbsp whole milk, the amount depends on how thin you like your glaze
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

For the donuts

In a large bowl combine flour, nutmeg, sugar and salt together.

Add the milk and add egg, melted butter and yeast.

Combine the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients.

Knead the dough on a work surface for 10 minutes. If you choose to use a stand mixer knead the dough on high for 3 minutes.

Transfer the dough to a greased bowl, cover and allow the dough to rise for 2 hours.

Roll out the dough to about 1 inch thickness (DO NOT roll the dough too thin, see the video for visuals) and cut out the donut shapes.

Place the donuts onto some parchment paper, brush them with melted butter and let them to rise again for another 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes, preheat your air fryer to 180 °C (350 °F). Once the air fryer has preheated (on my air fryer, an alarm sounds when it’s preheated), gently place the donuts into the greased basket and cook for exactly 3 minutes.

Toss the donuts in the glaze or alternatively, if you don’t want to glaze these, once the donuts come out of the airfryer and while they’re still hot brush the donuts with melted butter and quickly toss them in cinnamon sugar.

From: Emma Fontanella

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