Superhero Donuts Recipe [Captain America Themed Donuts]
Give your family the power of yummy with these delicious Superhero Donuts!
Captain America Themed SuperHero Donuts
Everybody loves Superheros. We all may have our favorites, but in all reality, it’s easy for us all to agree that these Superhero donuts are the true star and hero of making breakfast awesome each and every day.
Some days, it’s really nice to just wake up and know that you’re going to make a breakfast that’s going to rock. Yes, shaking things up when it comes to serving your kiddos is always a good idea!
And if you start your day off with these powerful donuts, you’ll be setting a great tone for their entire day. Can you imagine them heading to school and telling everything that they got to eat Superhero donuts that their mom created from scratch for them?
You’ll be the coolest mom on the block, for sure! Be ready though…you may start to get some extra requests for some more donuts so your kiddos can share these superhero treats with all their friends!
You might as well plan ahead and double, or even triple the recipe, to share these delicious treats! More Superhero donuts mean more yumminess as well!
Superhero Donuts Recipe
Donut Ingredients:
2 2/3 C flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp nutmeg
3/4 tsp salt
3/4 C sugar
1/2 C milk
1/4 C melted butter
1/2 C sour cream
2 large egg (room temp)
1/4 C vegetable oil
red and blue gel food coloring
Vanilla Frosting Ingredients:
1/2 C milk
2 C powder sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Red and Blue gel food coloring
2 disposable piping bags
1/2 C patriotic sprinkles (for decorating)
Superhero Donut Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Use a baking spray to prep your doughnut pan.
Set aside.
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
Whisk together the milk, sour cream, and eggs into a second bowl.
Whisk in the melted butter, vegetable oil, and vanilla
Gradually whisk in the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined
Divide the batter into three bowls.
Add several drops of green food coloring in the first bow.
Stir to mix the Red color evenly in the batter.
In the second bowl add several drops of purple food coloring.
Stir to mix the Blue color evenly in the batter.
Spoon equal amounts of the 3 batters into the doughnut pan.
Bake at 400 degrees for 9 minutes. (or until the doughnuts spring back)
Allow doughnuts to cool a few minutes in the pan.
Transfer the donuts to a wire rack to completely cool.
Glaze instructions:
Whisk together the milk, powder sugar and vanilla extract until smooth
Spoon about 1/8 C of icing into two bowls and add a few red food coloring into one bowl and blue food coloring into the second bowl
Mix until both are combined
Spoon each color into their own piping bags
Cut the tip off the piping bags
Drizzle the colors into the white icing about 2 times going vertical and horizontal
Dip the doughnuts into the icing and turn the doughnut 90 degrees
Place back onto the wire rack and repeat the previous steps for remaining doughnuts
Sprinkle on some patriotic sprinkles onto the doughnuts
Let dry for an hour before enjoying!
Superhero Donuts Recipe
Everybody loves Superheros. We all may have our favorites, but in all reality, it’s easy for us all to agree that these Superhero donuts are the true star and hero of making breakfast awesome each and every day.
Ingredients
- Donuts:
- 2 2/3 C flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1/2 C milk
- 1/4 C melted butter
- 1/2 C sour cream
- 2 large egg (room temp)
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
- red and blue gel food coloring
- Frosting:
- 1/2 C milk
- 2 C powder sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Red and Blue gel food coloring
- 2 disposable piping bags
- 1/2 C patriotic sprinkles (for decorating)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Use a baking spray to prep your doughnut pan and set aside.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
- Whisk together the milk, sour cream, and eggs into a second bowl.
- Whisk in the melted butter, vegetable oil, and vanilla
- Gradually whisk in the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined
- Divide the batter into three bowls.
- Add several drops of green food coloring in the first bow.
- Stir to mix the Red color evenly in the batter.
- In the second bowl add several drops of purple food coloring.
- Stir to mix the Blue color evenly in the batter.
- Spoon equal amounts of the 3 batters into the doughnut pan.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 9 minutes. (or until the doughnuts spring back)
- Allow doughnuts to cool a few minutes in the pan.
- Transfer the donuts to a wire rack to completely cool.
Glaze instructions:
- Whisk together the milk, powder sugar and vanilla extract until smooth
- Spoon about 1/8 C of icing into two bowls and add a few red food coloring into one bowl and blue food coloring into the second bowl
- Mix until both are combined
- Spoon each color into their own piping bags
- Cut the tip off the piping bags
- Drizzle the colors into the white icing about 2 times going vertical and horizontal
- Dip the doughnuts into the icing and turn the doughnut 90 degrees
- Place back onto the wire rack and repeat the previous steps for remaining doughnuts
- Sprinkle on some patriotic sprinkles onto the doughnuts
Let dry for an hour before enjoying!
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This will also make a perfect 4th of July party treat or holiday weekend breakfast idea. With a red, white, and blue theme, the possibilities are truly endless with this recipe.
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