How To Glaze Doughnuts With Honey

Doughnut glazes are a mixture of about 20 to 25 percent water and 70 to 75 percent sweetener. This combination produces a topping much thinner -- and with fewer calories -- than icing, because icing is usually 82 to 85 percent sweetener. Using a honey glaze for doughnuts rather than a sugar glaze will create a different taste. Although honey has more calories than sugar, it is also much sweeter. As a result, you need to use less than you would with a sugar-based glaze, and the calories balance out.

Step 1

Set hot doughnuts on a wire cooling rack and let them cool to room temperature.

Step 2

Dip each doughnut in the warm honey glaze using tongs, or as an alternate option, slide a plastic straw through the middle of the doughnut, grasp one end of the straw in each hand and dip the doughnut in the honey glaze.

Step 3

Return the glazed doughnut to the wire cooling rack and let it cool until the honey glaze hardens.

Tips and Warnings

To prepare a honey glaze, mix two parts honey to one part water or apple cider in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat the honey and liquid for one to two minutes, until it is warm but not hot. Reheat as necessary to ensure that the glaze stays warm for dipping. If you feel dipping is too messy, lay a sheet of wax paper under the doughnuts on the cooling rack and spoon the honey glaze over the cooled doughnuts.