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Published: Jun 11, 2021 · Modified: Feb 12, 2025 by Meredith · This post may contain affiliate links · 22 Comments

Baked Maple Glazed Donuts

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Our small batch baked maple donuts with maple glaze create delicate and cakey donuts with a wonderful pop of maple flavor. With our step-by-step photos, tips for success, and easy to follow directions, you’ll have a fresh batch of these on the table in no time!

Stack of maple baked donuts on a stack of plates. The maple donuts stack is surrounded by additional baked maple donuts in the foreground and background.

Both my husband and I LOVE everything maple. Like, love it so much that we had maple sugar candies as our wedding favors, the first wifi password we could agree on (which has since been changed to something more secure) was maplesyrup1, and we always have a locally produced maple syrup in our fridge and a backup in the cabinet. So creating a baked maple donut recipe was a no-brainer!

This small batch recipe makes 6 donuts per batch. Perfect for smaller households, and easy to double if you have a group to feed.

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  • Why you’ll love this Maple Frosted Donut Recipe
  • Maple Donut Recipe Ingredients
  • How to make Maple Glazed Donuts
  • Maple Donut Recipe Variations
  • More Tips for This Recipe
  • How to Store Maple Glazed Doughnuts
  • FAQs
  • Love This Recipe? You May Also Enjoy
  • Baked Maple Glazed Donut

Why you’ll love this Maple Frosted Donut Recipe

Easy to make, no frying required! Mix, pipe (or scoop) into your tins, and bake!

Awesome maple flavor! If you love maple everything, these are for you.

Great, cake-like texture. If you’ve never had baked donuts before, you may be wondering what the texture is like. The texture is a little cake like and super moist.

Ready in 25 minutes. Including prep and cook time, you only need about 25 minutes to make this recipe.

Top down view of baked maple donuts with maple glaze on a cooling rack.

Maple Donut Recipe Ingredients

  • Pure Maple Syrup: Real maple syrup gives our recipe a nice hint of maple without being overpowering. It’s also a great way to naturally add sweetness, meaning the amount of refined sugar needed in our recipe is reduced – yay!
  • Maple Extract or Maple Flavoring: To create the perfect maple glaze, a smidge of maple flavoring is needed. This amps up the overall maple flavor in each bite, giving you that punch of maple that you’re hoping for.
  • Sour Cream: Sour cream makes these extra moist and delicious.

See recipe card at the bottom of the page for a full list of ingredients and all measurements.

Equipment Needed

A donut pan: This is one of those treats that does need a special piece of equipment. You can get metal or silicone pans based on personal preference.

  • I love and use this 2-Pack of Non-Stick Metal Donut Pans
  • I have friends who love and use this 2-Pack of Silicone Donut Pans

How to make Maple Glazed Donuts

Collage of photos showing the steps showing how to make homemade donuts.

Preheat oven and prep your pan: Preheat to 350°F, then spray your donut pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside

Prep your ingredients: Whisk together your dry ingredients in a large bowl and set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together the butter, egg, sour cream, maple syrup, and vanilla until well combined. Gently fold the wet ingredients into your dry ingredients until just combined (note: dough will be very thick).

Pipe (or spoon) dough into the pan: Place your dough into a piping bag (or gallon sized ziplock bag with a corner cut off) to transfer the mixture into your donut pans. If desired, gently smooth out the top of the dough after it’s been equally distributed into the wells of the pan.

Bake: Bake approximately 12-15 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool: Cool in the pan for a few minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

Top with glaze: While your treat finishes cooling, make your maple glaze in a small bowl by whisking together all glaze ingredients. Once fully cooled, dip the top half of each donut into the glaze and set up-right on your cooling rack to set. Note: if I have additional glaze left, I often double-dip mine!

Store leftovers: Baked donuts are generally best eaten the same day, however, if you have leftovers, store in an air-tight container in the fridge for a day or two.

Expert Tip

Do not overmix your batter. Doing so can create tough baked donuts (and you don’t want that!). Gently fold your wet and dry ingredients together until just combined.

Another view of a stack of these homemade baked donuts with maple glaze.

Maple Donut Recipe Variations

  • Use Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. If you don’t have sour cream in your fridge, you can replace it 1-to-1 with either plain or vanilla Greek yogurt in this recipe! This is a great way of adding some extra protein too!

More Tips for This Recipe

Using a gallon sized ziptop bag (or a piping bag if you have one) makes transferring your dough into your pan super easy! Use a rubber scrapper to help move your batter from your mixing bowl to the bag. Then use a scissors to cut a small-to-medium sized hole in one corner. Pipe the batter into your donut pan by twisting the top of the bag and gently squeezing the batter down through the hole.

Don’t skip the vanilla extract in the batter! I’ve made this recipe with and without the vanilla extract in the batter, and the vanilla just does something magical in the final product. Don’t skip it!

Maple extract or maple flavoring will give your donuts that pop of maple flavor you are expecting. While maple syrup is used in both the dough and the glaze, it does not give you that pop of maple flavor you are expecting when baking with it. Adding maple extract or maple flavor in the glaze gives you that full bodied maple flavor you’re hoping for.

How to Store Maple Glazed Doughnuts

While baked donuts are best the day they’re baked, you can store any leftovers you may have in an airtight container for 1-2 days. Since these are not cream-filled, you can store them at room temperature if desired (just be sure to keep them out of direct sunlight to help prevent them from going stale) or store in the fridge.

FAQs

Is the dough supposed to be this thick?

Yes, baked donut batter is much thicker than you think it will be! If you are having issues getting all of your dry ingredients incorporated into your wet ingredients, you could add more maple syrup, a dab of sour cream, or even a little water. Do so in 1 teaspoon increments so you don’t make your dough too moist or runny.

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Tabletop shot of three baked maple donuts with maple glaze on a stack of three white plates.

Baked Maple Glazed Donut

Meredith
This small batch recipe for baked maple donuts with maple glaze makes light and cakey donuts that pack a wonderful maple punch. A great option for brunch with friends or as a special weekend treat!
4.71 from 24 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 25 minutes mins
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 6 Servings
Calories 371 kcal

Ingredients
  

Maple Donuts

  • 1 C all-purpose flour
  • ⅓ C brown sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ C sour cream
  • 2 tablespoon pure maple syrup
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Maple Glaze

  • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
  • ¼ C pure maple syrup
  • 1 C powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon maple extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat to 350°F, then spray your donut pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
  • Whisk together your dry ingredients (flour, brown sugar, salt, baking powder) in a large bowl and set aside.
  • In a separate bowl, mix together the butter, egg, sour cream, maple syrup, and vanilla until well combined. Gently fold the wet ingredients into your dry ingredients until just combined (note: dough will be very thick).
  • Place your dough into a piping bag (or gallon sized ziplock bag) to pipe into your donut pans. If desired, gently smooth out the tops after all of the dough has been distributed into your donut pan.*
  • Bake approximately 12-15 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Cool in the pan for a few minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
  • While the donuts finish cooling, make your maple glaze in a small bowl by mixing together all glaze ingredients until smooth.*
  • When the donuts have cooled, dip the top half of each donut into the glaze and set up-right on your cooling rack to set.*
  • Baked donuts are best day-of, but if any remain, store  in an air-tight container in the fridge for a day or two.

Notes

Alternate to piping dough into tins is spooning dough into tins.
 
Note: If your glaze is too thick, thin by adding 1-2 Tbsps of milk of choice. If your glaze is too thin, add additional powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached.
 
Note: if you have additional glaze, I recommend double-dipping your donuts!

Nutrition

Calories: 371kcalCarbohydrates: 63gProtein: 4gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 59mgSodium: 191mgPotassium: 121mgFiber: 1gSugar: 44gVitamin A: 392IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 100mgIron: 1mg
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    4.71 from 24 votes (14 ratings without comment)

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  1. Ashley Ramsey says

    January 22, 2025 at 9:52 pm

    Is the butter supposed to be melted or just softened?

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      January 23, 2025 at 10:52 am

      Hi Ashley, this is a great question. You butter should be melted! I’ve updated the recipe card to note this. Thank you!

      Reply
      • Ashley Ramsey says

        January 23, 2025 at 5:38 pm

        5 stars
        Thanks for the reply! They came out sooo good! I’ve made many baked donut recipes, and this one has been the best by far!

        Reply
        • Meredith says

          January 24, 2025 at 11:39 am

          I’m so happy to hear they turned out well for you Ashley! Thank you for trying my recipe 🙂

          Reply
  2. Katharine says

    October 22, 2024 at 4:58 pm

    5 stars
    I followed the recipe exactly and these were amazing! Took them to a church event and they were a huge hit.

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      October 23, 2024 at 8:53 am

      I’m so happy to hear these donuts were a hit Katharine! Thanks so much for giving our recipe a try 🙂

      Reply
  3. Doreen Oborne says

    February 14, 2024 at 3:26 pm

    5 stars
    They are so delicious!!
    First oven baked doughnuts I make and so good

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      February 14, 2024 at 9:12 pm

      I’m so happy to hear that you loved them Doreen! Thanks so much for giving this recipe a try 🙂

      Reply
  4. Terry says

    March 15, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    1 star
    I did not like this doughnut recipe. They are to heavy.

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      March 16, 2023 at 4:54 pm

      Hi Terry, I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy this recipe. I’m curious to know if you’ve made baked donuts before (as the texture is different than what you’d get with a classic fried donut from a donut shop)? Thank you for taking the time to give this recipe and try and for the feedback.

      Reply
  5. Kim says

    February 28, 2023 at 10:08 pm

    5 stars
    Can you add a little maple extract to the dough??

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      March 01, 2023 at 10:41 pm

      Hi Kim, yes, you’d be able to add a little maple extract to the dough if you’d like to really amp up the maple flavor! Since maple extract has a pretty strong flavor, I would start with 1/4 – 1/2 tsp. Let me know how it goes!

      Reply
      • Kim says

        March 04, 2023 at 8:53 am

        5 stars
        Thx much

        Reply
        • Meredith says

          March 04, 2023 at 9:04 am

          You’re welcome!

          Reply
  6. Tricia says

    January 17, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    2 stars
    While we love everything maple, we didn’t care for these. We thought they tasted too much like pancakes and the texture was odd. I have never made cake donuts before so it could just be the nature of baked donuts. The glaze was tasty.

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      January 18, 2023 at 1:59 pm

      Hi Tricia, thank you for the feedback. Yes, a baked donut will have a different texture than a fried donut that you’d get from a donut shop. I’d be interested to hear if you try another baked donut recipe and have the same experience. Glad you enjoyed the glaze tho!

      Reply
  7. Julie says

    October 28, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    5 stars
    Thank you for posting this recipe. Wow! It’s perfect! Tender donuts with fantastic maple flavor. Easy to make . I made these using my silicone donut pan.
    I’ll be making these again this weekend for sure .

    Reply
    • Meredith says

      October 30, 2022 at 11:26 am

      I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed this maple donuts recipe Julie!! Thank you for giving my recipe a try, and enjoy your next batch(es) too 🙂

      Reply
  8. M. says

    June 03, 2022 at 1:23 pm

    5 stars
    I LOVE maple donuts, and these were super easy to make and delicious too. Highly recommend.

    Reply
    • ourlovelanguageisfood says

      June 03, 2022 at 9:11 pm

      I’m so glad you love maple donuts too and that you enjoyed these! Thank you for making my recipe.

      Reply
  9. David says

    May 03, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    5 stars
    Who doesn’t like a maple donut? And as much as I like frying my own donuts, sometimes baking them is just so much easier…

    Reply
    • ourlovelanguageisfood says

      May 03, 2022 at 4:44 pm

      Totally agree! Glad you enjoyed this baked version too 🙂

      Reply

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