Christmas Donuts: Mini Gingerbread to Decorate with the Family
Gingerbread donuts straight from the oven with colourful fondant and Christmas decorations
Hello foodies,
what could be nicer than an afternoon baking Christmas treats with the whole family? These mini donuts are made for exactly that! The dough smells wonderfully of Gingerbread spice, is easily piped into a Silicone mold and baked in the oven, with no deep-frying needed.
Then the fun begins: the little donuts are dipped halfway into colourful Soft melting fondant and decorated with whatever your heart desires. Green donuts with holly, red ones with Christmas decorations, little snowmen with Candy eyes and carrots, or simply Glitter and Sprinkles.
This quantity gives you about 30 mini donuts. Have fun baking and decorating!
Ingredients
For the gingerbread dough
For decorating
Step by step
The gingerbread dough
Cream the butter and sugar
Put 55 g soft butter and 75 g brown sugar into a bowl and beat both together with the whisk for 1 to 2 minutes. Then weigh out 2.5 g baking powder and 0.5 g bicarbonate of soda. A measuring spoon scale makes this very precise. Add both to the bowl.
Digital measuring spoon scale
Add egg, milk and salt
Add ¼ tsp salt, 1 egg and 80 g milk, then beat everything on high speed for 2 minutes.
Stir in the flour, almonds and spice
Add 130 g flour, 30 g cream and 30 g ground almonds, and finally 3 tsp Gingerbread spice. Beat everything vigorously for another 30 seconds. Oh, how it smells! Now preheat the oven to 200 °C fan.
Bake
Prepare and fill the tin
Fill the dough into a large piping bag. This is easiest if you stand the bag in a measuring cup. Place the mini donut mold on a baking sheet, spray it with non-stick spray and pipe the dough into the cavities. The quantity is enough for 30 donuts, so two molds. Thanks to the short baking time, one mold is also enough if you fill it twice.
Dessert mold mini donuts in silicone
Disposable piping bag - 41cm - 24 pcs
Non-stick spray, 400 ml
Bake and let cool
Bake the donuts for 10 minutes at 200 °C convection heat. Let them cool in the mold for 5 minutes, then turn them out onto a cake rack.
Rectangular cake rack
Decorate
Melt and colour the fondant
Put a third of the Soft melting fondant into a glass bowl and warm it for 10 seconds at 500 watts or in a water bath. Colour it with gel colour as you like. To keep it from setting too quickly, place the bowl in a larger bowl of warm water.
Dip and decorate
Dip each donut halfway into the fondant and decorate it while the icing is still soft. Green with sugar holly, red with Christmas figures, white with candy eyes, carrot pieces and black pearls as a snowman, or simply with glitter and sprinkles. Use a cooking tweezer to place the small pearls exactly where you want them.
Precision cooking tweezer
Candy eyes, 25 g
12 carrot sugar decorations
Christmas donuts
Ingredients
For the gingerbread dough
For decorating
Preparation
- Dough: Beat the butter and brown sugar together, then work in the baking powder, baking soda, salt, egg and milk, followed by the flour, cream, almonds and Gingerbread spice.
- Baking: Pipe into the greased mini donut mould, bake for 10 min. at 200 °C convection, and let cool for 5 min.
- Decorating: Warm and colour the Soft melting fondant, dip the donuts halfway and decorate immediately with sugar decorations.
Nutritional values per 100 g
Storage & shelf life
Everything for this recipe
Recommended by our bakery team, in exactly the sizes this recipe was tested with.
Ingredients
Baking soda 100g
White almond flour extra fine
Gingerbread spice, 45 g
Soft melting fondant, 1.20 kg
Sugar decoration holly & berries
Glossy black sugar pearls 80g
Non-stick spray, 400 ml
Candy eyes, 25 g
12 Sugar decoration carrots
Accessories
Digital measuring spoon scale
Dessert mold mini donuts in silicone
Disposable piping bag 41cm, 24 pieces
Rectangular cake rack
Precision cooking tweezer
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The donuts only need 10 minutes in the oven. With one tin, you simply bake two batches one after the other.
Place the bowl with the fondant in warm water, and it stays runny so you can take your time dipping all the donuts.
These little donuts are quick to make and a wonderful activity for children on an Advent afternoon.
Frequently asked questions
This dough is meant for baking. It is too soft for deep-frying, but this way the donuts come out of the oven nice and light.
Yes, a mix of cinnamon, ginger, cloves and a little nutmeg comes very close to the flavour.
The cavities are about 4 to 5 cm in diameter. With a larger donut mould there will be correspondingly fewer, and the baking time extends by a few minutes.
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Réponse
By: Karin On 2022-12-19Merci pour votre message.
Il n'y a pas d'astuce pour conserver le fondant. Vous pouvez sans souci le stocker dans votre armoire.
Belle journée :-)
Question de Olivia
By: Olivia H. On 2022-11-25Bonjour,
J'aimerais beaucoup faire cette recette avec les enfants! Combien de temps ils se gardent ces petits donuts vous pensez? Cela serait sympa de les offrir, mais je me demande si ils se conservent assez longtemps dans une boite par exemple...
Merci pour toutes ces belles recettes! :-D
Replied by: Laura On 2022-11-27
Question de Anita
By: Anita P. On 2021-12-10Bonjour, ils sont magnifiques! Est-ce que ces mini donuts peuvent être préparés à l’avance et congelés? (Sans le glaçage bien sûr). Merci d’avance et belles fêtes!
Replied by: Anita P. On 2021-12-10
Replied by: Anita P. On 2022-12-18