# Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Donut Bars

These old-fashioned buttermilk donut bars are topped with a brown butter maple vanilla bean glaze.

- Servings: 16 servings
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 3.5 cups cake flour
- 2.5 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 0.75 tsp nutmeg
- 0.25 tsp baking soda
- 0.5 cup brown sugar
- 0.5 cup granulated sugar
- 0.25 cup salted butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 0.75 cup buttermilk
- olive oil
- 1.5 cups powdered sugar
- 6 tbsp salted butter, browned
- 0.33 cup maple syrup
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- pinch salt

## Instructions

1. Add melted butter to a bowl.
2. Add sugar to the bowl.
3. Whisk together the ingredients.
4. Add eggs and vanilla.
5. Whisk the mixture.
6. Add buttermilk.
7. Mix ingredients together.
8. Add flour.
9. Combine the ingredients with a spatula.
10. Cover dough and put in the fridge.
11. Flour a clean surface.
12. Place the dough on the floured surface.
13. Shape and flatten the dough.
14. Cut dough into bars.
15. Make a light indentation down the center of each bar lengthwise.
16. Fry the donuts in hot oil for one to two minutes on each side, until golden.
17. Remove the donuts.
18. Make the glaze with browned butter, maple syrup, vanilla paste, and a pinch of salt.
19. Mix glaze ingredients together.
20. Dunk each bar in glaze.

## Equipment

- bowl
- whisk
- bench scraper
- knife
- large pot
- Dutch oven
- wire rack
- slotted spoon
- cooling rack

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJRhWozuM6L/?igsh=eXpmd3VoYXRndG4x
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/1ff5d8b5-394e-4eed-8540-cd2bcf17adec
- Extracted: 2025-06-08

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