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.

It comes just like in the box, I like it because it arrived quickly and it arrives just like in the picture.

Muy buena tengo 2 años con ella

It was easy to use. I only tried it with cake mix but I'll try a donut recipe soon. It took no more than 4 minutes. Tip- Use only one tablespoon of batter instead of two. The donuts are tiny. In the picture that donut at the back was not filled enough. The machine is really small as well.

A fun item and easy to clean

First, the donut maker works fine. No complaints there. The recipes for the donuts could be improved. They were not very tasty. And finally, I bought it to use with a younger child obsessed with donuts. Sadly, the machine gets way too hot and isn’t safe for children.

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.

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.