What can you make with 50 lbs of donut mix? Besides donuts. Friend who

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donates at homeless shelter was just given a 50 lb bag of donut mix, but they don't fry anything there. She was wondering if they can make pancakes with them, but she isn't finding anything out there.

How about a cake made in one of those big roaster pans?

 
She just told me it was donated at the elementary school food bank, not the homeless shelter.

That means they will try to repackage it for families to take home and use themselves. I'm hoping when she actually "sees" the packaging it gives some basic details on how to prep it. All she was told was it was 50 lbs of donut mix. She's not even sure if it's cake or yeast.

 
They should be able to make a baked donut from it. Frying would be

more daunting, I'd think.
Baked donuts are delicious. If it's a yeast mixture, that will be harder I think.

 
Seems to me that a lot could be done with it

It is most likely flour, sugar, baking soda or powder, salt, eggs- so coffee cakes, a baked base for a fruit dessert, maybe some used as a cobbler topping, some sort of cake with additions….get creative.

 
Several links and ideas

Here are suggestions and recipes your friend might be able to use. Colleen

waffles
fruit coffee cakes
fruit pizza - roll out and top with sweetened cream chz and fruit
popovers

From Epi “Like baked cake doughnuts, baked raised doughnuts require a little more fat in their recipe. They're at their best warm out of the oven and brushed with melted butter.” Recipe/discussion at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/baked-cake-doughnuts-51157010

Seattle Style Monkey Bread from yeasted donut scraps (great donut how-to so page down for recipe and many reviews/tips)
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/how-to-make-bulletproof-fluffy-yeasted-donuts-at-home

add milk and nutmeg to batter for muffins
https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=467860

baked donuts (or muffins!) with many comments and suggestions
http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2015/06/09/baked-cinnamon-sugar-donuts/

baked in donut shaped pans or donut hole pans
https://www.averiecooks.com/2011/11/baked-vanilla-donuts-with-vanilla-glaze.html

baked in muffin/mini pans - lots of reviews/tips
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/doughnut-muffins-recipe

form donuts to dinner rolls/buns
http://chicgorgeous.blogspot.com/2011/08/baking-recipe-juicy-buns-using-leftover.html

General Baked Donut Directions
1.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet, or donut baking pan.
2.In a medium bowl, mix sugar, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and flour. Mix buttermilk, eggs, honey and butter in a separate medium bowl, and stir into the dry ingredients. Spoon the mixture onto the prepared pan in doughnut shapes.
3.Bake 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown.

King Arthur Dessert Baked Donuts - Great reviews/tips and can also use self-rising flour
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/dessert-doughnuts-recipe
This links to King Arthur's other baked donut recipes
http://search.kingarthurflour.com/search?p=Q&asug=&af=type%3Arecipes&w=baked+donuts
You can probably also bake them in muffin tins. King Arthur Flour has a recipe for baking doughnuts, and although I find they come out fairly dry, you can dip them in melted butter when they come out of the oven, and absorbing the butter makes them more like a doughnut in flavor. Then add sugar if you want.

Bayou Bakery Scrap Donugh-nut (Sticky Cinnamon Roll) Buns (from extra beignet dough - need to develop a “quick” method to do this)
page down through other recipes using leftover donuts
http://www.heraldextra.com/momclick/recipes/ways-to-get-creative-with-leftover-doughnuts-as-if/article_ede55be6-e8bd-11e2-889a-001a4bcf887a.html

 
Popovers?

Wow- popovers are delicate and fussy- just my opinion but I wonder if this mix isn't best suited for other things.

Some other good ideas there Colleen

 
THANK YOU ALL! I've passed along suggestions and B will see the packaging this

weekend (I think). At least now she has some suggestions to work it.

 
If it is a cake doughnut mix, muffins and such should be able to be made from it. . .

Muffins and variations of muffins, with fruit and nuts and such could be made. You could probably make "scones" or sweet biscuity things like this as well.

Add and egg and enough fluid of some sort, like juice or milk, scoop them into muffin tins. For scones and biscuits, use some sour cream or yogurt to moisten, pat out and cut; biscuits, cut some butter in, use some buttermilk or milk to moisten, cut your biscuits.

 
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