Easy Bread Machine Donuts is a simple method for making fresh homemade donuts using your bread machine!
These Easy Bread Machine Donuts are light and fluffy just like the ones from your favourite bakery. Sprinkle with plain white sugar, icing sugar, dip in chocolate or decorate with frosting and sprinkles. It is time to pull out that bread machine and whip up a batch of yummy homemade donuts!
Easy Bread Machine Donuts instructions with step by step photos
The butter, water and egg should be at room temperature and the milk slightly warm (microwave for a few seconds). To begin place all ingredients into bread machine pan in the following order. Milk, water, butter, egg, sugar, salt, flour and yeast. Do not stir! Set the bread machine to Dough Cycle and push start.
When cycle is complete you will have soft risen dough perfect for making donuts!
Remove dough from bread machine and place on lightly floured surface.
Sprinkle the rolling pin with flour and roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness.
Dust donut cutter or circle cookie cutter with flour and cut into perfect donut circles.
Transfer to baking sheet lined with wax paper. Place another layer of wax paper on top, then cover with tea towel. Let dough rise for 30-40 minutes until slightly raised.
While donuts are rising heat vegetable oil to 375º (190ºC) in deep fryer or large heavy pot. Fry 2-3 donuts at a time until golden brown on both sides.
Drain on paper towel. Sprinkle with granulated or confectioners sugar.
A tasty homemade treat that will fly off the plate!!
Bread Machine Donuts
Ingredients
- 2/3 cups milk slightly warmed
- 1/4 cup water room temperature
- 1/4 cup butter soft (room temperature)
- 1 egg slightly beaten
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cups bread machine flour
- 2 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast
- 1 quart oil for deep frying
- 1/4 cup confectioners sugar optional
Instructions
- Place milk, water, butter, egg, sugar, salt, flour and yeast into bread machine pan in exact order listed. Do not stir!
- Insert baking pan securely into baking unit, close lid, select dough setting and push start.
- When cycle is complete, remove dough from pan and transfer to lightly floured surface.
- Using rolling pin lightly dusted with flour, roll dough to ½ inch thickness.
- Cut with floured dusted donut cutter or circle cookie cutter.
- Transfer donuts to baking sheet that has been covered with wax paper. Place another layer of wax paper on top, then cover with clean tea towel. Let rise 30-40 minutes until slightly raised.
- While donuts are rising heat vegetable oil to 375º (190ºCº) in deep fryer or large heavy pot.
- Fry donuts 2-3 at a time until golden brown on both sides. About 3 minutes.
- Drain on paper towel.
- Sprinkle with granulated or confectioners sugar
Nutrition
For another great recipe using your bread machine try this one for homemade Bread Machine Bagels
Bread machines make our lives so much easier! Especially since there are so many recipes to make with it, looking forward to try this one too!
I love using my bread machine to make all kinds of things, pretzels, bagels, pizza dough, and of course bread!
Is bread machine flour the same as bread flour? Can you use either?
Elizabeth, I have found both kinds of flour work. Bread machine flour may result in a bit fluffier donuts.
Question….Can I make this dough and then bake the donuts as opposed to deep frying. I have been looking all over for a recipe for bread machine dough for jelly filled baked donuts…..am at a loss in finding one. Can you help.
Hi Charlotte, this recipe is for donuts that need to be deep fried, I don’t have a recipe for baked donuts. I’ll let you know if I find one.
Thank you….hubby can’t have deep fried, but loves jelly filled donuts….thought I could make some, The only ones I can find are made with canned biscuits….not really what I want. I wanted to use the bread machine because kneading is almost impossible for me. Arthritis and really crooked fingers….
Air fryers are great if you can’t have deep fried
Do this same recipe in an air fryer should yeild the same result just no oil 😁
Hi, Charlotte and Laureen.
You may havr found a baked doughnut recipe by now, but if not, Cookbooks 101 website has an excellent doughnut yeast dough for baking.
However, I have both baked and fried same doughnut dough with no issues.
Light, soft, and fluffy and stayed fresh and tender up to four days. I do tend to chill all dough ovetnight for ease of rolling and enhanced flavor next fay. I also tend to work with hydration up to 70%, but 65% is pretty standard for this type of dough.
Hope this helps!
Try a air fryer
Thank you! My batch turned out great. Better than what the doughnut shops nearby make. I used an Oster bread machine.
Better than donut shops, now thats a compliment, thanks!
Hi Laureen! this recipe looks so gret , my friend tried it with great success! Now only small thing we don’t consume eggs – is there any way to make this without the egg? Will any egg substitue work?
Hi Sivakami, I think you may just have to experiment to see if an egg substitute would work. I, myself have not tried it. Let me know if you try and the outcome.
Can you make the dough the night before then cut and fry then the next morning?
Hi Bethany, I don’t think the donuts would turn out well overnighting the dough. But I have never tried.
This was a super easy recipe. I would probably use only egg white next time I feel like it was still too doughy when I was done frying them. Also I used peanut oil and it was good.
Can you use AP flour and regular yeast for this recipe? It’s all I have and really want to try making these.
Yes regular flour and yeast will work.
First time trying…..was delcious and super soft……..added cinnamon a vanilla to my mixture though…..was a big hit and will definitely make again
Hi can I use bread flourm I cant find bread machine flour. And really would like to try this.
Yes bread flour will work. I have even made them with regular all purpose flour, which are a bit denser.
I made these with regular yeast and all purpose flour. They were very light and fluffy. I had a hard time frying the holes. They were difficult to roll over and got a bit over cooked. I will definitely make these again. Thanks Laureen!
Thank you Karen, you could try carefully laddling the oil over the donuts holes.
Thank you for this recipe. I used this recipe for my caramilk donut glaze https://lotsofrice.com/2020/08/09/caramilk-glazed-donuts/
This is an excellent recipe. Thank you.
Thank you Linda for taking the time to comment and rate my recipe. Glad you enjoyed it!