Homemade Baked Chai Donuts

Chai Donuts – Homemade Chai Baked Donuts are an easy spiced fall treat recipe. With a spicy and sweet frosting, they taste like a fall in one bite at of a time. The most perfect seasonal fall donuts recipe that are perfect for autumn festivities and Thanksgiving dinner.

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Homemade donuts are the best! They are so fresh, they taste absolutely divine and can be made in advance. Now when it’s time where the leaves softly lands on a crisp morning grass and everything smells like spices, pumpkins and sunflowers, it’s time for some fall baked donuts. These Chai Donuts are the perfect solution when you want a cozy night in with your friends or family, and you just need a simple, yet absolutely delicious fall treat. Warming spices from the chai tea and chai milk glaze  is something you just have to try out this fall season. These donuts are baked, not fried. Yay!

Let’s get cozy with these yummy Chai Donuts!

This post is about how to make Homemade Chai Donuts with a spiced glaze.

FALL DONUTS

If you love living by the seasons and really give importance to seasonal recipes and treats, these chai donuts will make your fall season better than ever. With a luscious spiced glaze and loads of chai spice, these fall inspired homemade donuts are going to become your new family’s favorite.

Enjoy them during fall, Thanksgiving and Halloween festivities. These donuts are also great not only as a delicious dessert, but also a fun breakfast. Fall donuts that are baked and not fried! So they are actually healthier version of a classic donut recipe.

CHAI DONUTS

If you have never tried homemade donuts, this is the chance. These chai baked donuts are so fluffy, soft, full of flavor and can be made in just 30 minutes. They are the perfect pairing for your fall coffee, tea or apple cider. The frosting of these yummy donuts is insane! Spicy, sweet, and luscious!

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INGREDIENTS for chai donuts

Egg 

Vegetable oil – use coconut oil or any other vegetable oil as you prefer.

Baking powder 

Cinnamon 

Allspice – if you can’t find any allspice in your grocery store, you can mix ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and pumpkin spice for your own homemade allspice blend

Sour Cream – or you can also use Greek Yogurt.

Milk 

Chai tea bags – we will use these to infuse our donuts and glaze with chai spice flavor.

Flour – all-purpose flour will do the best.

Light brown sugar  – you can also choose any other granulated sugar of your choice.

Vanilla extract 

HOW TO MAKE CHAI DONUTS

• Preheat the oven to 375F. Butter or grease large donut pan. You can also use donut pan with 6 donut holes, you’ll get 12 donuts in total from this recipe.
• Prepare the chai infused milk. Heat the milk until just boiling. Remove the warm milk from the heat and add 3 chai tea bags into the pan. Allow to steep for 3-5 minutes. Remove the tea bags.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon.
• Add one egg, vanilla extract, sour cream or yogurt, vegetable oil and chai infused milk. Mix everything together until smooth.
• Refrigerate the remaining milk for the chai glaze.
• Transfer the batter to a large zip bag and chop off one of the corners. Squeeze the batter evenly into the donut pan.
• Bake the doughnuts for 10 to 12 minutes. When done, they’ll spring back when touched lightly.
• Remove the donuts from the pan and allow them to rest for 20 minutes. Transfer them to a finishing rack.
• While the doughnuts cool, mix together the confectioners’ sugar and a little bit of chai infused milk (about a teaspoon) to make a thick, but fluid glaze. Pour the glaze into a shallow dish.
• Dip the donuts into the glaze and place them back on a rack set.
• Sprinkle with additional cinnamon.

RECIPE FAQ’S

Are baked donuts as good as fried donuts?

Baked donuts are actually real good. They’re actually a bit healthier and not that greasy as traditional fried donuts. They have a cake-like consistency and the glaze is always extremely delicious.

HOW TO MAKE EVEN DONUTS?

The best way to make perfectly even donuts in my opinion is to use a zip top bag piping tehnique. You just have to pipe the batter into a pan with a zip top bag.

Homemade Baked Chai Donuts

Chai Donuts - Homemade Chai Baked Donuts are an easy spiced fall treat recipe. With a spicy and sweet frosting, they taste like a fall in one bite at of a time. The most perfect seasonal fall donuts recipe that are perfect for autumn festivities and Thanksgiving dinner.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 donuts

Equipment

• donut pan (6 holes x 2 pans)
• mixing bowl

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup milk
• 6 chai tea bags
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 4 tbsp almond oil (or vegetable oil)
• 5 tbsp sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For The Chai Glaze

• 2 cups powdered sugar
• chai milk

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 375F. Butter or grease large donut pan. You can also use donut pan with 6 donut holes, you'll get 12 donuts in total from this recipe.
• Prepare the chai infused milk. Heat the milk until just boiling. Remove the warm milk from the heat and add 3 chai tea bags into the pan. Allow to steep for 3-5 minutes. Remove the tea bags.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon.
• Add one egg, vanilla extract, sour cream or yogurt, vegetable oil and chai infused milk. Mix everything together until smooth.
• Refrigerate the remaining milk for the chai glaze.
• Transfer the batter to a large zip bag and chop off one of the corners. Squeeze the batter evenly into the donut pan.
• Bake the doughnuts for 10 to 12 minutes. When done, they'll spring back when touched lightly.
• Remove the donuts from the pan and allow them to rest for 20 minutes. Transfer them to a finishing rack.
• While the doughnuts cool, mix together the confectioners' sugar and a little bit of chai infused milk (about a teaspoon) to make a thick, but fluid glaze. Pour the glaze into a shallow dish.
• Dip the donuts into the glaze and place them back on a rack set.
• Sprinkle with additional cinnamon.

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