Ingredients
Cake:
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ t salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1½ cups milk
  • ½ cup melted butter
Cinnamon swirl:
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • ⅔ cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1 Tablespoon flour
Frosting:
  • ¼ cup melted butter
  • 1½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon milk
  • ¼ cube cream cheese
Instructions
Cake:
  1. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. In an electric mixer combine eggs, vanilla, milk and ½ cup melted butter. Then slowly add in dry ingredients until fully incorporated.
Cinnamon swirl:
  1. Mix all the ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth
Using a donut maker:
  1. Use the cake mixture and fill each slot ⅔ of the way full. Then top with ½ teaspoon cinnamon mixture, and closet the lid. When the light turns green, remove the donuts from the maker. After every 2-3 batches, wipe the cinnamon mixture off the lid with a paper towel to keep it clean.
Using a donut baking sheet:
  1. Fill each spot about ⅓ of the way with the cake batter. Then put ½ teaspoon of the cinnamon mixture into each spot and then fill another ⅓ full with cake batter. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes (check with a toothpick)
  2. Let the donuts cool
Frosting:
  1. Mix ingredients until smooth. Using a spoon, drizzle the frosting over the top of the donuts.
Recipe by Our Thrifty Ideas at http://www.ourthriftyideas.com/2014/07/mini-cinnamon-roll-donuts.html