You'll go nuts for these Valentine's Day treats! Made using our delicious baked cake donut recipe, these donuts are a great way to share the love. For added family fun, have the kids help decorate! Use a variety of sprinkles and frostings to make these Valentine donuts just as cute as can be!

Prep

20 mins

Bake

40 mins

Total

1 hr

Yield

12 donuts

Ingredients

Ingredients
• All-Purpose Flour | --- | 2 cups
• Sugar | --- | 1/2 cup
• Baking Powder | --- | 2 tsp
• Salt | --- | 1/2 tsp
• Milk | --- | 3/4 cup
• Eggs | --- | 2
• Melted Butter | --- | 1/4 cup
• Vanilla Extract | --- | 1 tsp
• Powdered Sugar | --- | 1 cup
• Milk (for glaze) | --- | 2-3 tbsp
• Vanilla Extract (for glaze) | --- | 1/2 tsp
• Pink or Red Food Coloring | --- | As needed
• Sprinkles (red, pink, white) | --- | As needed
• Edible Pearls | --- | As needed
• Red or Pink Icing (for drizzling) | --- | As needed

Instructions

1. Make the donuts
2. Prepare donut batter following recipe instructions. Once baked, place donuts on a wire rack to cool.
3. Make the glaze
4. Prepare donut glaze following recipe instructions. Divide into three equal portions.
5. Using pink food coloring, tint one portion light pink and one portion medium pink. Leave the remaining portion white.
6. Decorate the donuts
7. Dip donuts into white, light pink and medium pink glaze. Top as desired with red and pink sparkle gels, nonpareils, sugar pearls and jimmies.
8. Using red and pink frosting, pipe stars and rosettes on donuts, as desired.