Baked Donut Nirvana

If you love donuts, this is a super fun book about how to make donuts at home without deep frying. To successfully pull off the recipes, you need donut and/or donut hole pans, Some recipes are rolled out and hand cut, not requiring a special pan.

The author starts the book with a well-done introductory section that not only shares details about equipment and ingredients needed but also is full of tips that will help your donut-baking success. The recipes are divided into simple, logical sections like Glazed and Filled. She even has two interesting chapters at the end, one for donut holes and donut-like (like fritters and beignets) or donut-using desserts and another for savory donuts. There aren't many of the latter, but I think it's a fun addition. The recipes themselves are detailed and clear, which I think will help any attempt at making the recipes more successful. She's got some standard donut recipes, like a couple of varieties of old fashions (including a gluten-free version) and iced and sprinkled donuts. Some recipes are inspired by the seasons or holidays like gingerbread, pumpkin, and eggnog donuts. Others are a nod to other desserts or pastries, like Boston cream, red velvet cake, and German chocolate cake donuts. Some have unique ingredients like one with matcha tea. Others just seemed inspired and fun, like Firecracker Donut Hole Pops and Churros con Chocolate Donut Holes. If you enjoy donuts and want to play around with a slightly healthier version at home, this book is your ticket to baked donut nirvana.

Every recipe in this book sounds delightful. I can only attest to the glazed donuts so far but two thumbs up. The donut holes are the next task during girls night. Would highly recommend

I skimmed through this book I originally got approved, but just really got to sit down and read it today. It was a great, creative cookbook with unique recipes you don't always see often. I loved the simple set up of the book and the easy understanding of each recipe. Great resource to have and can't wait to add this to my shelf! Thank you so much for this opportunity!

The Easy Baked Donut Cookbook is a well curated collection of baked donut recipes by Sara Mellas. Due out 2nd June 2020 from Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 245 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.

The recipes are arranged thematically, an introduction with general directions is followed by chapters for basic and sugared, glazed, iced and frosted, filled, donut holes, and savory donuts. Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements given, with *some* of the metric equivalents in parentheses), and step by step instructions. There is no nutritional info provided. Variations and alternatives (gluten free, vegan, etc) are provided in very limited numbers. The gluten-free recipes are the same as the non-gluten free versions except with substituted gluten-free flour.

My main quibble with the book is that the recipes are mostly not photographed. There are some photos, and they're clear and attractive, but they only represent about 5% of the recipes included in the book. It is, however, a very well written book full of tasty treats prepared in a novel way.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Yum! Yum! Yum! be prepared to read a delightful cookbook filled with lots of wonderful recipes and lovely photos to match. If you love doughnuts, like I do, opting for baking doughnuts is a bit less caloric. Baked doughnuts are a bit easier to make too as you don't have to stand over a hot fryer frying doughnuts while dodging hot grease. You won't be disappointed by The Easy Baked Donut Cookbook by Sara Mellas as her cookbook contains recipes for both quick and yeast baked doughnuts. Her cookbook includes a good selection of frostings, glazes or icings along with doughnut fillings.

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

Yummy yummy! There are so many donut recipes that I don't know which one I should make first! They all sound so good! I wish there were more photos though. This book is very well organized and easy to follow. It has all the information you need to make donuts at home and it has tips and variations. Very well done! I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

This is a good cookbook that lives up to its name of offering easy baked donut recipes. In some cases, you'll sacrifice some quality because of the ease, like the "beignet" recipe is just crescent roll dough you press back together, bake in squares and coat with powdered sugar. There are a variety of flavors built around a basic recipe. A couple of gluten free options are offered (regular and chocolate), using a purchased cup-for-cup gluten free flour mix. These are literally the exact same recipes as the regular cake and chocolate cake recipe, though, other than calling for gluten free flour. One vegan regular and one vegan chocolate recipe are provided as well. Some recipes call for shortcuts like using cake mix or biscuit dough. An intro explains how to use donut appliances, ingredients, etc. and a small section of savory donuts is provided at the end.

In general, the recipes are designed to be made in either a mini donut maker, a donut hole maker, or in the oven in a donut pan or on a baking sheet for filled donuts. Most of them have instructions to use several appliances or methods, other than the filled donuts. The filled donuts sound tasty but require quite a few hours to make and there is no gluten free recipe for those so I'm unable to try it. Some of them sound more like cupcakes than donuts and are actually frosted. These are some extremely high sugar, high calorie donuts for the most part, even though baking cuts down some of the fat and calories. Ironically, the only recipe in the whole book that calls for whole wheat flour or low/no sugar is for your dog.

There are very few pictures and there is no nutritional information. Note that the photos appear to be from stock photo companies and are not necessarily of these recipes.

There were some tasty sounding flavor combinations, and I made a note to try a couple of them. I have my own mix-and-match gluten free (and dairy free) mini donut recipe that we've been making for years that I plan to continue using. My younger son makes them himself and I like that it uses a cup of fruit or veggies (pumpkin puree, applesauce, mashed banana, squash, etc.) for moistness, flavor and a bit of nutrition. We alternate the spices and flavors to match the mix-and-match ingredients and change them up. Since I cook from scratch and cook gluten free, I plan to just continue to use that recipe. Standard American cooks will probably really appreciate the recipes in this book, especially for occasional decadent treats.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I love cake donuts, and I own a donut pan, so my eyes lit up when I saw this cookbook. It has a lot of great recipes for both cake and yeasted donuts.

My particular favorites are the cinnamon coffee cake donuts, chocolate cake donuts, and German chocolate donuts. There are also Vegan and Gluten Free donut recipes. In the Savory Section, there’s a clever idea for garlic bread pull-apart donuts. If you have a donut pan, this book will give you lots of clever ways to use it.

All donut lovers will adore this book. I received a free copy of this book from Callisto Media via Netgalley. My review is voluntary.

This is a short and sweet cookbook jam packed with recipes! There are so many varieties of donuts - sweet and savory to glazed and frosted. Each recipe can be made in a donut pan, but if possible, it is indicated that the recipe can be made as mini donuts, donut holes, or in a donut maker. There is definitely a range of difficulty - some are quick and easy while others involve many, many ingredients. The Easy Baked Donut Cookbook is definitely fun - I just wish there were more photos!