Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make a
homemade doughnut pan.
I have a chocolate cake doughnut recipe video here on
my channel, and I've got more questions in the past.
Well, what if I don't have a doughnut pan and maybe they
don't want to buy one?
Like I have a nice little Wiltern doughnut pan here that
I always use for my cake donuts.
You don't need a pan, a doughnut pan when you're
making your space doughnuts like the classic glazed Krispy
Kreme glazed doughnut.
You don't need a pan for that.
But if you want to make cake donuts like my chocolate cake,
doughnut or pumpkin cake, doughnuts or vanilla
cake donuts, you need some sort of a pan to do that to get
the doughnut shape.
But if you don't have one, there is some solutions that
you can try.
If you like, you can make one out of aluminum foil.
So here is one for a larger doughnut that I made.
And then you can also make these smaller ones and you can
fit them inside of a muffin pan if you have a muffin pan.
And then there's one more option that you can try as well
that involves the muffin pan before I move on.
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Down below in the description box, you'll find
the list of all these items that I am using.
It's a very, very simple you pretty much just need a little
bit of foil and scissors, and that's basically it.
I do have these little round cookie cutters that you can use
as a guide, but it's not necessary.
All right.
So let's first make this one.
This is a larger one.
And so look at this little shape.
It's got this in the middle where the cake batter cake
doughnut batter will go around it and then when it bakes,
there'll be a hole in the middle for a doughnut.
Pretty awesome, huh?
So how do we make this?
Well, we take some foil and you want to get about a square.
So it's about full length of the width, just about
12 inches.
And then you want to go by about 12 inches for
this first piece.
And we'll just cut that, and if you have your box for
your foil, then you can just.
Use the little edge cutter on it, and then we need one
more piece that's about half that size, which is about
this size,
and I'm going to cut that.
And then with this one, I'm just going to crumble it up
and make it into like a little
ball oblong or rectangle ball like this.
And then I'm going to put it right here in the middle and
then turn it over.
And just kind of go around it.
And I don't worry about which side is supposed to be up or
down when it comes to this, you know, you have a more shiny
side and then you have the dull side.
I don't worry about it for this.
It's not going to matter.
So you just kind of go around it like this
and then kind of just smooth out the bottom a little bit.
The smoother it is, the easier the cake will or the donut will
remove from it.
If you have a lot of, like, grooves and stuff,
sometimes the cake batter will get stuck in there.
But don't worry if that happens.
And now, like if this is the shape, the size of a
doughnut that I want, I can just take this and go
up around it.
Like that, and you could leave it like that if you wanted to,
but when I normally will do
is I will fold these down and make it a little
bit more sturdy.
And then we go
back and you can put that back in there and you can go
around it, you know, talk around it like this
if you want.
And that is a little donut pan or larger doughnut,
and you want, like the edges not to be like there's kind of
a straight edge, you can just push your finger around it and
just curved that edge of velvet.
So it's not a straight if you want totally up to you.
And so now has more of a round edge.
So that's one option.
So I have two of these larger ones.
And then what you'll do is you will spray the inside with
cooking spray and just put them on a some kind of a baking pan
or cookie sheet just so it's really easy to put in and out
of the oven.
And now you're going to follow like depending just follow your
normal whatever donut recipe you're using.
You could use my chocolate cake doughnut recipe.
Or if you want to make the pumpkin doughnuts, you can use
that as well.
And so for the chocolate cake doughnut recipe, preheat the
oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
All right.
So I'm going to spray these later.
So that's that option.
Another option is
to take.
A half a piece.
So about six inches wide.
And then we're going to cut it in half to about six inches by
six inches, something like that doesn't have to be exact.
And this is method two
and you just make that same ball and kind of make it flat
on the bottom.
And then you'll take a muffin pan, provided you have a
muffin pan, and then it's going to just sit right there in
the middle, you just place it right there.
And then you will spray the pan and pour some batter around
that ball or that shape, it's not really a ball.
And then you can make these little mini ones,
which is the same.
These many ones, which I just fit right in there and what's
nice about them, any one that fits inside, is if there's
any overflow, it'll just use the walls of the muffin pan as
the wall of the doughnut.
And so how do I make these?
Well.
Know, just take another sixish.
Wide by 12 inch long piece again, we'll cut
it in half.
And then we will call that one.
And make it like that shake.
OK, and then we'll just put it in the middle.
And then push down on it.
And you're just going to go up the side with that.
So pretty much exactly what we did for the larger version.
And then we can come in here,
just push it down in there
into the muffin pan and just work it around,
or if you don't have the muffin pan, then you can just
make smaller ones and put it on this pan right here.
I'm going to spray these now and then we will fill them up
with the chocolate cake batter and bake them.
Got the spray and your spray and pretty generously.
The edges and then the little thing in the middle and just
reached situate that in the middle.
OK, and then I have this chocolate cake
doughnut batter and the recipe you can find that here on my
channel down in the description box, I will post a
link to this chocolate cake doughnut recipe as well, if you
want to make this specific one.
And I just have a little measuring scoop here,
measuring cup and I will come in here.
And put some cake batter up chocolate doughnut batter.
In there, about half full.
OK.
And then I will do these once.
As well, so on these ones.
Usually it's not it won't move too much now, little thing in
the middle, but you'll just want to go around it and
that'll help keep that thing.
It's a little m.
insert in place.
All right, so these are my test ones using that foil,
and then I'm going to just show you just the comparison with
the doughnut tray real quick as well.
I'll put a link down below in the description for this
Wiltern doughnut tray as well.
I like this doughnut tray.
Makes a good sized doughnut.
All right, and then we are going to bake these in the oven
for eight to 12 minutes until when you poke him with
a toothpick, the toothpick comes out clean, the really
small ones, they will take a little bit less time.
So check them definitely check them out about eight minutes
and go from there onto that step.
And when they come out of the oven, they will look
something like this.
Here are the larger ones.
Here's the mini one that was kind of just the free form,
one by itself.
And here are the ones that were in the.
Muffin pan,
and of course, here are the ones that were in the
doughnut pan, and you're just going to whatever pan or
aluminum foil doughnut tray that they are and just allow
the donuts to cool for about 10 minutes before you remove them
and put them in a on a wire rack to cool completely.
You can just pull this middle part out.
And depending on how much you depending on how much you
grease that middle part, it may have a hard time coming out,
maybe not.
That came out pretty easy.
And there's a little donut hole in there, so that's kind of
like a baby doughnut and you can make.
This part.
Larger if you want to make that hole bigger.
Just the whole won't look as nice.
And this one was in that little tray.
We'll just peel around it.
A little bit to remove it.
And see this one turn out a lot better.
Turned out on the top, it looks pretty much like one of the
other ones, a whole not quite as big and then on the bottom
looks pretty good as well.
Pretty awesome, huh?
So so far out of these two methods that are used in
the muffin pan.
This one is definitely better than this one, I think.
Totally up to you.
Which one you like the best.
And now these larger ones, again, like we did that
smaller one, just kind of peel away a little bit
from the doughnut.
And then we look at that, how well this one turned out,
then on the bottom, it looks like that.
So my favorite way is just the free form way like this without
using the muffin pan at all, and you can make various sizes
that way as well.
But it's totally up to you, I if you don't have a
muffin pan, then this way will work great.
If you are going to make donuts quite a bit, then it might be
worth it just to buy a.
Might be worth it just to buy a donut pan, but as you see.
You can certainly make some pretty cool donuts with these
makeshift aluminum doughnut trays, and so these
big ones are these big ones and these ones are all the ones
made in the tray, and these ones are the ones made from
the doughnut pan.
So pretty cool.
And once they have dried and cooled completely, then you can
decorate them however you want.
Like, I have a little lemon glaze that I did and just be
careful of the glaze is too thick when you stick the donut
and dip it.
You can make your donut fall apart.
And so just make sure the donut, the glaze is not too
thick or you could just pipe on the glaze frosting,
whatever you want to do.
So I put some sprinkles on these.
Or take like some powdered sugar.
And do you like a powdered sugar doughnut?
Like that.
So there you go, that is how you make homemade doughnut
trays for cake doughnuts again, if you are
going to make doughnuts all the time, then it's worth it
probably to pick up a doughnut pan if you can't afford it,
they're not too expensive.
Maybe 10 or 20 dollars, something like that.
You'll probably save you a little bit of headache in the
long run if you're making them all the time.
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Oh, yeah.
Mm hmm.
Grab this guy right here.
I mean.