Donut Maker, Mini

I love "fry cake" donuts and this donut maker is wonderful and makes the best fry cake donuts, 4 at a time, for family fun and snacking. I have tried all the recipes and all have turned out perfectly without any bitter tastes or off smells. We love the buttermilk chocolate recipe. To make the buttermilk I use evaporated milk in the can and white vinegar. I always keep evaporated milk on my pantry shelf because we do not use milk on a regular basis and when I need it, I grab it off my self and mix with water according to the can directions. I use the full Tablespoon of baking powder but I do mix and then sift the dry ingredients to incorporate them well before I add the wet ingredients. We add 1 teaspoon of coffee extract to the chocolate recipe to pop the chocolate taste. We also add 2 teaspoons of ground cayenne pepper and a 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon to the chocolate recipe to make Aztec Devils Food fry cakes. To make frosting them easy we just use store shelf cake frostings. To make a glaze, you just heat up the white frosting in the microwave so it just melts and dip each donut and but them on a wire rack to drip but everyone seems to like the frosting right out of the container spread on them with sprinkles or jimmies or crushed peanuts. These are not deep fried, fluffy, yeast donuts that you fill with jelly or Bavarian cream. These are FRY CAKES: a baked, sweet cake like donut that you see in the Hostess powdered donut box but these are fresh and even yummier than Hostess! If your child loves to bake, this is great but I would recommend the parent removing the baked donuts out of the machine to avoided the child possibly getting burned fingers. Next weekend we are going to try the boxed Jiffy corn bread mix from the store and make cornbread rounds and if they turn out we'll use them on our Thanksgiving table along with the cranberry rounds we have already made from the Jiffy muffin mix. We did freeze some to see if they would be good thawed and they were but we always eat them up and never have any left over to freeze.

A fun item and easy to clean

Wonderful! Bought this to make vegan donuts with a 4 year old and they turned out perfect!!! Didn’t stick at all! Used a simple Oat flour based recipe off the internet.We overpoured the batter and it was easy to peel off the crusts, and still left perfect donuts. Took about 4 mins. I just eyeballed.*The only drawback is the cord is rather short (2ft est.) so if you don’t have an outlet right next to you, an extension cord may be helpful.*for those that said they turned out sticky or uneven. They probably needed a different recipe because these were so easy, and perfect.

Pros: Easy to clean, good for making small amount of donuts, cooked quickly.Cons: Takes a really really long time to make a big batch of donuts since there is only 4 spots. If you are looking to make a larger batch of mini donuts I would buy the one with the ability to make more at a time. It takes about 4-6 mins per batch of 4 so it takes about 30mins to make 24 mini donuts approx. Sometimes you have to wait for the machine to warm up again if your're using for a long time as well so take that into consideration too. I am just not the most patient person, but I think the 7 slot machine is definitely more convenient.Overall: I would recommend this machine if you are looking to make a small batch of mini donuts.

I had been hoping to get the larger model, but most places seemed to be out of them at the time so figured I'd give this little devil a try. It was certainly well worth it, once the unit heats up initially each round of donuts takes all of about 3-4 minutes to get a nice evenly browned donut on both sides. On hind sight I would probably just use 2-3 of these at the lower price if I was so inclined to make larger batches.The first time it was heated up, even after cleaning thoroughly before use, had a fairly strong smell from whatever coatings didn't clean off initially. However after maybe 15 minutes or so running it burned off whatever had still been left behind from the manufacturing process and it's been smell free (aside from the overwhelmingly nice donut aromas that linger for hours afterwards).Filling the donut mold cavities I just used a freezer bag with a corner snipped off, piped in the batter going around the mold two times, and shut the lid. 3 minutes later: perfection.A simple toothpick worked like a charm to poke into the donuts at an angle and pull them out of the unit as it didn't come with any utensils or accessories outside of the recipe booklet (which doesn't have half bad recipes, like anything they need tweaks to your own tastes and preferences). Haven't had any issues with donuts sticking in the least, they just pull right out.The outside of the unit, particularly the handles, don't get very hot which is quite nice. The only thing that's a little chintzy on this is the front latch, it's pretty easy to pop off entirely and wouldn't be too surprised if at some point it ends up breaking.

Used this as a fun White Elephant gift and stole it back for myself. =) Just made it batch they’re very tiny, Smaller than mini donuts from the store. Kind of a trial and error to get them right, but then again there are so many different recipes to follow, but it’s fun and easy to use, not the best donuts I’ve ever had but a good snack

My Papa is 103 ... he is in great shape to ... we made the doughnuts and he loved them ... ask me last night if we are making so more today . I make 12 at a time using the Baby cakes recipe and I sprinkle them with powered sugar. I will look for more recpies today. It works really great too! easy cleaning! Awesome ! TY :)

I used a recipe include and added different topping. I even cut some in half and spread on some Nutella. I got 40 out of the batch, easy, breezy. But, my family devoured some before I could take the picture. Easy to use and cleanup. Love it!