making donuts with commercial mixes
- Apr 5, 2023
Donuts (or doughnuts) are a popular dessert that are often considered to be a breakfast pastry. These round pieces of dough with an open center, are either fried or baked to fluffy perfection then are usually topped with a sweet detail.
When looking to make your own donuts, you can decide between using a recipe from scratch or starting with a premade mix.
If you’re looking into purchasing commercial pre-made donut mixes, you’re probably doing large scale baking, out of a bakery or donut shop. Using commercial donut mix allows you to increase your productivity & keep your costs down without sacrificing the quality of your donuts!
At Stover & Company, we carry the following brands of donut mixes in 50 lb bags: Dawn, Puratos, Pillsbury & EFCO. Depending on how large you make them, each 50 lb bag of donut mix should yield approximately 460 donuts (based on 2.5oz dough pieces.)
When deciding which brand is best for you, first think about what kind of donut you want to make: cake donuts or yeast donuts. Cake donuts will be much denser (like cake!) whereas yeast donuts (or raised donuts) are much lighter & airy.
Some of our most popular donut mixes are: Pillsbury Sour Cream Donut Mix, Dawn Foods Raised AA Donut Mix & Pillsbury 4x Cake Donut Mix.
All of these commercial donut mixes are formulated to tolerate a variety of shop conditions while delivering a long shelf life, tender texture & flavorful taste. When using a mix, you’ll consistently produce great tasting donuts with excellent volume, symmetry & color in bulk format.
Once you decide on your mix, it’s time to think about toppings! Check out our wide selection of donut glazes to perfectly top off your donuts! A few of our favorites include: Dawn Foods Donut Glaze, Brill RTU Donut Glaze & Shine which come in 40lb buckets or Henry & Henry’s Neutral Glaze Redi-Paks.
Don’t forget about fillings!! Make your donuts even more delicious when you fill them with a variety of tasty pre-made fillings. Click HERE to check out all the different filling flavors that we offer.
PRO TIP: Make your own chocolate fillings for your donuts using any of our chocolate brands, especially our Eleven o’one European Couverture Chocolate.
If you have any questions about the different products we offer, please reach out to our customer service team at info@stovercompany.com or by phone at 724.274.6314.