How To Make The BEST Classic Cake Donuts

A classic fried cake donut recipe that makes the most delicious old fashioned donuts ever! Light and crispy on the outside, tender, moist, and cakey on the inside.

Cake Donut Recipe ►
4 ounces (112 g) unsalted butter softened but not melted
5 ounces (140 g) granulated sugar
2 large eggs room temperature
6 ounces (168 g) buttermilk room temperature
15 ounces (420 g) All-Purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
32 ounces (896 g) oil for frying (4 cups) Peanut oil, vegetable oil, vegetable shortening (Crisco), or lard.

Classic Donut Glaze Recipe ►
5 ounces (140 g) powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons milk or water

Chocolate Donut Glaze ►
4 ounces (112 g) chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons butter
1 Tablespoon corn syrup or glucose/honey
2 Tablespoons heavy cream

Cinnamon Sugar ►
1 cup granulated sugar
2 Tablespoons cinnamon

[BaileysBarn]

2020 was the year of banana bread, 2021 should be the year of homemade donuts 😀 I have never made donuts but definitely going to give it a try.

[martiscruggs]

Love the tip about using lard. That ingredient sure makes a difference in flakey pastry dough. Am definitely going to be trying this recipe. Love your videos and your new home studio!!!

[Nyaraizim]

Love your recipes. I watched the Premiere, i was live with you 😊
All the way from Africa, Zimbabwe
Where people watching from?

[lisabakescakes]

I went out and bought a Fry Daddy, just so that I could make these. They were so good!!! Thank you! I look forward to the other recipes that you'll have 🤗 Definitely a keeper 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[suew]

I like cake donuts just plain the way they come out of the fryer😋
I also love chocolate with chocolate frosting 🤩

[namzbecca]

I'm probably blind but I don't see the quantity for the vanilla. 😢
I found it in the linked recipe - whew! LOL. Just an fyi, in case you weren't aware, the vanilla ingredient is the only item not listed in the recipe you posted with the video. For peeps like me who go off the video tutorial, it's an important miss.
My first batch, although tasted lovely, was too dense. Darnit. I don't know what I did wrong but round two begins tonight. Cannot wait!!

[kinsmangallo]

Wow this recipe is so appetizing and delicious! Hope you could make more donut recipes soon with Different designs, flavored glazes and topings😍❤️

[shannonsimpson]

Hi Liz! I always look forward to your videos and was really excited about this one! A flavor of donut that I would love to see is a Boston cream donut filled with pastry cream or Bavarian and glazed with chocolate. Those are my all time favorite! I hope you consider making some of those😊

[tracyjohnson]

I made these yesterday after finding this vid. I found after rolling out half the dough that it was going to make more donuts than we would eat so I refrigerated the rest hoping it would be ok. This morning I took it out rolled it (a little thicker than you did) and it made the fluffiest softest donuts ever. Keeping you around lol.

[haydenlloyd]

So, cinnamon sugared cake donuts are so nice with apple cider in The Fall. We did that at home as a treat when I was growing up. Your doughnuts look very delicious.

[agkittyhook]

Chocolate glazed cake donuts are my favorites. I'm going to try this recipe but in an air fryer!

[jenyhomestuff]

Congratulations on your new house! Yesterday I just made, for the second time, your Southern Coconut Cake!! Delicious!!👍😉

[carolyndavis]

Chocolate cake donuts are my favorite!!! I will try to make these.😋

[PsychoKittee]

The whole is so the calories escape...
That's what my Granny said, so for me it's beyond question. 😁🍩
When I made sugar cookies and I'm bored cutting shapes, I flatten the dough and use a pizza cutter to make squares, sticks, or odd shapes. Those are the family cookies 😀

[austifox]

I love making donuts! I'll have to try this recipe for sure!

[mandiigraham]

I love my doughnuts split in two and filled with a ring of pastry cream and dusted with icing sugar Yum.

[jeanetteswalberg]

Ahhh! You have totally motivated me to make some yummy Fall treats.
Loved the lesson on lard vs. shortening. I recently discovered the true joy of using lard in British scones. Totally rocked my world.
Thanks for the tip on storing oil in the Fry Daddy! Now I'm going to look for one!
Love all your vids. Keep up the great work.
Almost forgot to congratulate you on your new home and studio! <3

[smileygirl]

Looking forwards to more doughnut recipes. 🤤

[suew]

Can you use this recipe for baked donuts?

[irenamason]

Hi, my preference is sunflower oil with its neutral flavour. I avoid anything with canola oil as its flavour is unpleasant to me. Just a note, most baked goods in Australian supermarkets have a palm oil component. Thanks for your video.