Baked, oatmeal cookie donuts, dipped in a maple glaze and topped off with chunks of oatmeal cookies! I love oatmeal and oatmeal cookies are my FAVORITE cookie, so it just made sense I turn my favorite cookie into a donut! These donuts are super easy to make and even easier to eat!
Confession: I eat an oatmeal cookie for dessert. Every night. My dessert of choice is one of my homemade oatmeal cookies, and as embarrassing as this is, I will actually bring a tupperware container of my cookies with me when I travel, so I can have one for dessert, even when I am not at home.
Well when making my last batch of oatmeal cookies, I must not have been paying attention (I don’t measure anything because I make these cookies every week!), I added too much water (yes….I add water instead of butter) or did not bake them long enough, resulting in some gooey cookies. They were yummy, but super ooey, gooey and messy.
Gooey oatmeal cookies that were more like cookie dough than cookies though. So, what would taste good with cookie dough on it? A DONUT! I told you….sometimes my recipe ideas come from my bake fails.
Baked Oatmeal Cookie Donuts with Maple Glaze
Print RecipeIngredients
- DONUT BATTER:
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/4 cups quick cooking oats
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 cup milk (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
- GLAZE:
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons hot water
- 1-1/2 teaspoons maple flavoring
- TOPPING:
- 3-4 Homemade (or store bought) oatmeal cookies, broken into pieces
- Sprinkles
Instructions
DONUTS: Preheat oven to 425-degrees. Spray two donut pans with baking spray and set side.
In a large bowl, add the softened butter, oil, white sugar and brown sugar. Stir until combined. Add the eggs to the mixture, stirring each egg completely into the mixture. Add the vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, salt, flour, oats, baking soda and baking powder into the wet ingredients and stir until combined. Slowly stir in the milk. Mix ingredients until completely incorporated.
Pour donut batter into a large ziplock bag and cut off a small corner of the bag (to make it like a pastry bag). Pipe donut batter into prepared donut pan, filling to the top. Bake one donut pan at a time in 425-degree oven for 10-minutes.
Remove baked donuts from the oven and once cool enough to handle, remove the donuts from the pan and place on a wire rack to cool. Repeat with the second donut pan. Allow donuts to cool completely before preparing glaze.
MAPLE GLAZE: Place butter in a medium sized bowl and melt in the microwave. Remove bowl from the microwave and stir in the powdered sugar, hot water and maple flavoring. Add more sugar if you want a thicker consistency, or add more hot water if you want a thinner consistency.
Dip cooled donuts into the glaze and set back on the wire rack to set. Add the oatmeal cookie pieces, and sprinkles, to the tops of the donuts immediately after dunking in the glaze.
Let glaze set completely before storing donuts.
Notes
Donuts will stay fresh 2-3 days, stored at room temperature in an air tight container.
I packaged these donuts in my signature pink donut box, and brought them into work. They quickly disappeared 🙂
Soooooooo breakfast or dessert?! Both?!! But tell me what you think 🙂
XOXO,
Kelly
PS- I have shared this recipe at the following link parties: Meal Plan Monday, Friday Foodie, Pretty Pintastic Party, The Pin Junkie.
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40 Comments
Momma
September 26, 2017 at 8:58 AMThis looks ridiculously yummy, I wish my fails turned out like yours! Love you baby!
Kelly
September 26, 2017 at 3:04 PMAwww thanks momma! Love you too! XOXO
Amy
September 26, 2017 at 9:28 AMI love that you take homemade oatmeal cookies with you when you travel. I’m sure that they taste better than what you could buy, and they are for sure less expensive. I also love that you came up with theses donuts from a “fail”. They sound delicious. Thank you for sharing – and have a great day!
Kelly
September 26, 2017 at 3:05 PMThanks Amy! I try to eat different desserts when I travel, but I always like my cookies the best hehehe. And definitely cheaper!! Have a great day too 🙂 XOXO
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
September 26, 2017 at 10:22 AMOoohhhh you’re combining two of my favorites: oatmeal cookies and maple bars. SO GOOD! I wish I was organized enough to take cookies with me when I travel 🙂
Kelly
September 26, 2017 at 3:06 PMThanks Kelsie! I am not really organized….I just always have these in the pantry hehehe 🙂 Have a great day! XOXO
Ashika | Gardening Foodie
September 26, 2017 at 1:15 PMThese look super delicious Kelly!!! I absolutely love the idea of oatmeal cookie donuts….and the glaze adds such a yummy finish on these gorgeous treats!!
Absolutely love it 😁
Kelly
September 26, 2017 at 3:07 PMThanks Ashika! The glaze and cookies on top are what set these donuts over the top 🙂 Have a great day! XOXO
Amanda
September 26, 2017 at 1:21 PMMs. Kelly, if this is a “fail,” then what the heck is a “success?” Oh, please let me be a failure like you! I’ll take some of that maple glaze please.
Kelly
September 26, 2017 at 3:09 PMHahahah awwww…you’re so sweet!! Thanks Amanda!! I would say these donuts turned into a success at least! And the maple glaze on top is seriously legit! XOXO 🙂 Have a great day darling!
GiGi Eats Celebrities
September 26, 2017 at 4:50 PMHey would you look at that! Your donuts have little afros! lol!
Kelly
September 28, 2017 at 6:06 AMHehehehe well who doesn’t love a good afro?!?! 😉
Katherine | Love In My Oven
September 26, 2017 at 6:47 PMMy husband also LOVES oatmeal cookies. So cute that you eat one every night 🙂 These donuts look amazing Kelly!!
Kelly
September 28, 2017 at 6:09 AMThanks Katherine! I love oatmeal anything 🙂 XOXOXO
Maria Doss
September 26, 2017 at 9:47 PMThese doughnuts truly looks amazing-perfect rise, color and texture!!! And the maple glaze looks finger licking good. Love the idea of oatmeal cookie crunch on top. Have a great week dear:)
Kelly
September 28, 2017 at 6:10 AMThanks Maria!! Have a great week too my dear 🙂 XOXO
Deepika|TheLoveOfCakes
September 27, 2017 at 4:52 AMWhat a great idea! I wish, I was able to utilize my baking failures so amazingly as well! The donuts look so fluffy and yummy.. More with that gooey glaze and oatmeal cookie topping!
Kelly
September 28, 2017 at 6:11 AMThanks Deepika! You are so sweet 🙂 Have a great week! XOXO
cakespy
October 1, 2017 at 5:01 AMOH SWEET DEARIE ME. You’ve made something incredible here!! <3
Kelly
October 1, 2017 at 7:20 AMHehehe thanks love! XOXO 🙂
heather (delicious not gorgeous)
October 3, 2017 at 2:06 PMlove this!! chocolate chip will always be my first love, but oatmeal cookies are a super close second. also that dedication for bringing oatmeal cookies with you even when you travel!! (i personally eat way too much when i travel so snacks/dessert/food in general is not necessary for me to bring lol).
Kelly
October 4, 2017 at 6:52 AMThanks Heather! Chocolate chip is one of my favorites too….maybe I need to make a chocolate chip donut version of this recipe?! Have a great day! XOXO
Lianne
October 9, 2017 at 2:26 AMThe glaze on these doughnuts looks soooo good!
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Kelly
October 9, 2017 at 12:54 PMThanks Lianne! The glaze REALLY sets these over the top 😉 XOXO
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October 10, 2017 at 9:32 AMThese look gorgeously Yum!! I love anything made with oats so I might just have to give these a try. They look like they taste seriously delish..
Kelly
October 1, 2018 at 9:25 AMThanks Marie!! I hope you make these 🙂
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wendyklik
September 29, 2018 at 5:30 AMOh my but those are decadent looking.
Kelly
October 1, 2018 at 9:26 AMThank you Wendy!!
Colleen
September 29, 2018 at 7:42 AMThere’s nothing quite like a tarted-up donut!!!
Kelly
October 1, 2018 at 9:26 AMOh yeah!!! I agree Colleen!
Amy (Savory Moments)
September 29, 2018 at 11:27 AMWhoa! These look so decadent and super yummy!
Kelly
October 1, 2018 at 9:27 AMThank you Amy!!
hummingbirdthyme
October 1, 2018 at 10:02 AMKelly,, these look amazing and delicious! I haven’t had much luck with baked donuts, but you are inspiring me here – that maple glaze looks so good, I could just eat it all with a spoon!
Kelly
October 3, 2018 at 6:36 AMThank you!! They really are easy to make! I love making baked donuts….I hope you give em a try 🙂 XOXO
juliepollitt
October 6, 2018 at 4:02 PMOh my goodness. These. Look. Amazing. Wow!