Easy Air Fryer Donuts Recipe - Ready in Just 5 Minutes (2024)

FAQs

Can you air fry donuts instead of deep fry? ›

These doughnuts are baked in the air fryer instead of fried in messy, smelly oil. After air-frying, each doughnut is brushed with a melted butter-vanilla mixture and coated in cinnamon-sugar. Yum! If you know how to make doughnuts, you know how time-consuming and messy the process can be.

Vegetable oil is the go-to choice for many good reasons. Besides being cheap and easy to find, it has no problem handling high temperatures with a smoke point of around 400 degrees Fahrenheit — well above temperatures needed to brown donuts.

Baked doughnuts are smaller, baking powder driven and more compact. A typical fried glazed donut will be around 269 calories, while a baked donut will have much fewer. The difference is the fact that you won't be dealing with any extra fat from the oil from frying when you bake.

Fry at about 375° to 380° F (190.6° to 193.3° C). Donuts brown too rapidly and may have raw or doughy centers if fried in fat that is too hot. Donuts fried in colder shortening brown too slowly and absorb excessive frying shortening.

Yes, if you prefer not to fry, you can also bake donuts in the oven. Simply prepare the dough, shape it into donut rings, and bake them in a preheated oven at around 375°F (190°C) for approximately 12-15 minutes. This method results in a slightly different texture but can still be delicious.

You don't need to add another pan to your collection in order to make baked doughnuts. Instead, grab a muffin tin and some aluminum foil to create a makeshift doughnut pan.

Although muffin tins don't have the traditional donut shape, you can easily adapt them by rolling strips of aluminum foil into little tubes and placing them in the center of each muffin cup.

A batch of original glazed starts with Krispy Kreme doughnut mix, water and yeast, the same single-cell fungi used to make bread rise. The yeast is what makes the original glazed so light -- it puffs the dough up with air, so it's not dense like a cake doughnut (more on this later).

We use vegetable shortening (palm, soybean, and/or cottonseed and canola oil) for zero gram of trans fat per one serving of doughnut. All monoglycerides and diglycerides are vegetable based. Enzymes are also present. The lecithin we use is soy-based.

Are Krispy Kreme donuts fresh or frozen? ›

Our doughnuts are a freshly made product and therefore need to be cared for as you would a cake or pastries. Krispy Kreme doughnuts are made with ingredients which have similar attributes as those used to make bread.

CAN AN AIR FRYER DO EVERYTHING A DEEP FRYER DOES? An air fryer cannot do everything a deep fryer does. Unlike deep fryers, air fryers don't tend to create a thick crust. Liquid batters and moist foods may seep through the air fryer basket and may not achieve the desired level of crispiness you're seeking.

The temperature and time settings for deep frying in an air fryer can vary depending on the type of food you're cooking. As a general guideline, most foods will deep fry well at a temperature of around 375°F (190°C) for 10-20 minutes, depending on the thickness and type of food.

Baking: If you wanted to bake the donuts instead of frying, after the donuts have been shaped have gone through the final rise then bake the donuts for about 14 minutes in a 350^oF oven. They won't be quite as crispy on the outside and get that deep-fried flavor but this process will be much easier.

Because the circulating air of an air fryer will be in less intense contact with your food than hot oil, you'll need to compensate by increasing your temperature a bit to around 390°F for anything that's traditionally deep fried. Oil: Get that crisp right with a small amount of oil.