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Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. “The Elvis”

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by: Joanna Cismaru

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Close up shot of Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. "The Elvis"

Before you hate me for putting bacon on everything, hold on!

These donuts are baked! So to me, that makes these donuts healthy. That’s right!

I’m really thinking that bacon need its own category on this blog. Bacon makes the world go round. 🙂 I think this is what they refer to bacon mania!

Close up shot of Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. "The Elvis" on a plate

I am a bacon enthusiast! I am part of “Bacon Nation”, I am a bacon freak. Whew, that makes me feel better! I think us bacon lovers need our own bacon support group. However, this masterpiece, the maple bacon donut or what they love to call “The Elvis” is becoming very popular in North America. This is one of those things that you’ll either love or you’ll hate. I for one, love them.

How can I not love anything with maple on them, after all I am Canadian, we do own Maple syrup. But I understand that sometimes we need to eat healthy so that’s why I baked these donuts. To be honest, I bought this baking donut tray and I could not wait to use it. So I thought hard about it, what kind of donuts are worth this cute little baking donut tray, I did my research, I lost a couple nights of sleep over this, but then in the end it was all worth it. “The Elvis” appeared in my dreams and showed me the maple bacon donut! It could be the most delicious thing you’ve ever tasted.

So let me tell you how to make these baked donuts. First of all I cooked the bacon, which just drives my dog crazy whenever I cook bacon. The smell is too much for her, she just plops herself in the middle of the kitchen and won’t move till she gets her share. So whereas I only need 3 slices of bacon for these donuts, I have to make about 6 or 10 slices, because between the dog and my husband, it’s World War III over bacon.

But bacon and maple aside, these are baked donuts. Who’d have thunk it? Your favorite treat, but baked!

Preheat the oven to 375 F degrees. Spray the donut tray with cooking spray and set aside. In a small bowl mix together the yogurt, melted butter, milk, eggs and vanilla extract. In the bowl of your mixer, mix all the dry ingredients, so the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium for a minute or so until everything is nicely incorporated. Now here’s the trick to making these baked donuts perfect.

Use a piping bag. So transfer the donut dough into the piping bag, keep in mind it’s quite sticky. Now carefully pipe the donut dough into each donut form. Easy peasy!

Step shot of making Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. "The Elvis"

Bake these puppies in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until the top is slightly golden brown. Take them out, let them cool for a couple minutes, then turn them over onto your work surface. Repeat with remainder of donut dough. For me this recipe made 12 perfect donuts.

Baked donuts lined up on a cutting board

Don’t they look irresistible already? But have some patience. Before you dig your teeth into these babies, let’s make the maple icing, which is super simple. You’ll need a cup of icing sugar, 1 tablespoon of hot water and a 1/4 cup of good Canadian maple syrup, it’s ok if you don’t have Canadian maple syrup, use whichever kind you have, I won’t hold it against you. Whisk everything together, and that’s all there is to maple icing.  Now take a donut and with the top side down dunk it in the maple syrup. Make sure you move it around in there to get plenty of that maple syrup. Next take some bacon and sprinkle on top. If you were a brave soul, you would dunk the donut in the crumbled bacon as well. Repeat with all the donuts.

Close up shot of Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. "The Elvis"

I would never steer you wrong. These donuts are to die for. 🙂

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maple bacon donut

Maple Bacon Donuts a.k.a. The Elvis

4.67 from 3 votes
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total: 40 mins
Author: Joanna Cismaru
Serves: 12
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Ingredients

Donuts

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup 3% milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoon butter

Maple Icing

  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup

Special Guest

  • 3 slices cooked bacon crumbled

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 375 F degrees.
  • Spray the donut tray with cooking spray and set aside.
  • In a small bowl mix together the yogurt, melted butter, milk, eggs and vanilla extract.
  • In the bowl of your mixer, mix all the dry ingredients, so the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium for a minute or so until everything is nicely incorporated.
  • Transfer the donut dough into the piping bag, keep in mind it’s quite sticky. Now carefully pipe the donut dough into each donut form.
  • Bake the donuts in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until the top is slightly golden brown. Take them out, let them cool for a couple minutes, then turn them over onto your work surface.
  • Whisk all icing ingredients together.
  • Dunk the donuts in the maple icing, then sprinkle with some crumbled bacon.
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  1. Erin says

    February 27, 2013 at 5:24 am

    Where on earth did you get a doughnut pan??

    Reply
    • jo says

      February 28, 2013 at 12:17 am

      We got it at Crate & Barrel, they have lots of different styles of pans there. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Veronica says

    July 4, 2012 at 6:18 am

    Can I replace the butter with oil ???

    Reply
    • jo says

      July 4, 2012 at 11:34 am

      Hi Veronica,
      Sure you can, though I’ve only made them with butter, so I’m not sure if it’s going to change the flavor a bit.

      Reply
  3. sara says

    April 10, 2012 at 4:05 am

    YUM, these doughnuts look incredible! So tasty…love the maple and bacon together, just delicious! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Katherine says

    April 6, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    i stir maple syrup into whipped cream cheese for a quick and easy “icing” so that’s what i will use for do my baked donuts / thanks for the crispy bacon idea

    Reply
    • jo says

      April 6, 2012 at 10:04 pm

      Sounds like a great idea. Thanks Katherine.

      Reply

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