Indulge in the delicious flavors and textures of mochi and pandan with these easy to make pandan donuts.
This recipe for baked donuts is ready in no time and simple to make.
Enjoy these pandan donuts on any occasion like afternoon tea, birthdays, or even Christmas.
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These pandan donuts are deliciously soft, slightly chewy, and rice in flavor.
Enjoy these baked donuts plain, glazed, or even fill them with your favorite cream.
Pandan donuts are delectable treats feature a unique blend of pandan, a fragrant tropical plant widely used in Southeast Asian cuisine, and chewy mochi-like texture.
Each bite of these pandan and chocolate donuts offers a soft, airy donut with a slightly sweet and earthy flavor, making them an irresistible choice for those seeking a twist on traditional donuts.
These pandan donuts are great to serve for dessert, afternoon tea, at special occasions like Halloween or Christmas, or even birthday parties.
What is pandan?
Pandan is a tropical plant widely used in Southeast Asian cooking, known for its sweet, nutty aroma.
Its leaves are used to infuse dishes, especially desserts like pandan chiffon cakes, with a distinct flavor.
Besides use in cooking, pandan is valued for its ornamental use and traditional medicinal benefits due to its antioxidants and essential nutrients.
What Makes These Donuts Extra Special?
These baked mochi donuts differ from other baked donuts because they have mochi inside them.
Mochi may make you think of those little Asian rice cakes that come in all sorts of flavors.
These rice cakes are made from glutinous rice flour (also known as mochiko flour, shiratamako, or sweet rice flour).
Glutinous rice flour, despite its name, does not contain gluten. It is a flour that is made from ground short grain sweet white rice.
If you're after other delicious donut recipes, you might like to try chocolate baked mochi donuts, matcha donuts, biscoff baked donuts, or even ube baked mochi donuts.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
- These pandan donuts are easy to make.
- This recipe for mochi pandan donuts are baked not fried.
- Great to serve at parties, for morning tea or afternoon tea, breakfast or even dessert.
- Customize these donuts to suit your preferences. Enjoy them glazed or unglazed, and use as much or as little pandan flavoring as you like.
- This recipe for pandan donuts is budget friendly.
- Ready in under 30 minutes.
Cost To Make
Estimated cost = $5.50, or $0.91 a donut
Ingredients
Please note that below is a guide for some of the ingredients we used in the recipe. The printable recipe further down the page has the complete list of ingredients, including quantities and step-by-step instructions.
For the Donuts
- Corn Starch
- Glutinous Rice Flour: Also known as mochiko flour or sweet rice flour.
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Egg
- Milk
- Pandan Extract
- Vanilla Extract
For the Glaze (optional)
- Cooking Chocolate: You could use milk, dark, or white.
- Vegetable Oil
Equipment
A donut pan. I used a 6 cup donut pan that can hold about 275 ml of liquid.
Instructions
This recipe for pandan donuts makes 6 donuts. You can easily adjust the ingredient quantities to suit how many serves you need to make.
For The Donuts
Step One: Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) and grease a donut pan with softened butter and lightly coat with corn starch (flour). This should make it less likely the donuts stick to the donut tin. Dust off any excess flour.
Step Two: Mix the glutinous rice flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium sized mixing bowl.
Step Three: In a separate bowl, mix the melted butter and brown sugar. Then whisk in the egg. Once the egg is mixed through, stir through the milk, pandan extract, and vanilla extract.
Step Four: Add the wet ingredients from step 3 to the dry ingredients from step 2. Mix until combined and there are no lumps.
Step Five: Place the batter evenly in the prepared donut pan. You could use a spoon to do this, or even a piping bag. Then bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the tops of the donuts become lightly browned.
Step Six: Once baked, remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 5 to 10 minutes.
After this, remove donuts from the pan and allow to cool completely. If you are having difficultly removing the donuts from the pan, use a toothpick carefully around the edges of the donuts. This should loosen the donuts from the pan.
For the Glaze (Optional)
Step One: Melt chocolate in a microwave or using the double boiler method. Once melted, mix through the vegetable oil. Place the melted chocolate and oil mixture in a bowl wide enough to dip a donut in.
Step Two: Dip each cooled donut in the chocolate mixture, shaking off any excess mixture. Place on a wire rack (glaze side up).
We recommend you glaze the round side of the donut rather than the flat side. Optional: Sprinkle the glazed mochi donuts with crushed biscuits before the glaze sets.
Substitutions / Variations
- Coconut-Pandan Glaze: Add some pandan essence to your melted chocolate and sprinkle some desiccated coconut on top.
- Pandan Custard Filling: Inject or spread a pandan-flavored custard filling inside the donuts.
- Pandan Crumble Topping: Sprinkle crushed pandan-flavored cookies or your favorite cookies on top of the donuts after glazing to add crunch to each bite.
Serving Suggestions
- Serve these pandan donuts with a cup of tea or bubble tea to complement and highlight the pandan flavor.
- Ice Cream Sandwich: Create an indulgent treat by slicing the donuts in half and using them as a base for an ice cream sandwich with coconut or pandan ice cream.
- Flavored Dips: Offer various dipping sauces such as pandan caramel, chocolate-pandan ganache, or coconut-pandan glaze for an interactive and personalized experience.
Storage
Store these pandan donuts at room temperature in an air tight container for 2 to 3 days.
Alternatively, you can store them in the fridge for 1 to 2 days. When you want to eat them, remove from the fridge and allow to come to room temperature.
You can freeze these mochi donuts, however, we recommend you freeze them unglazed. When you are ready to use them, defrost the mochi donuts and then glaze the donuts.
More Mochi Recipes
Looking for other delicious and easy mochi recipes to enjoy? Then you might like to try chocolate mochi, ube butter mochi, Nutella mochi, dairy free chocolate chip muffins, potato mochi, mochi pancakes, biscoff baked mochi donuts, mochi bread, mochi cookies, or even mango mochi.
Made this recipe? Let us know how it went in the comments below! We'd love to hear how it turned out.
Recipe
Pandan Donuts
Ingredients
For the Donuts
- Corn starch flour to dust
- 90 grams (3.17 ounces) glutinous rice flour (mochiko flour, or sweet rice flour)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 30 grams (1.06 ounces) unsalted butter melted, plus extra to grease
- 30 grams (1.06 ounces) brown sugar
- 1 egg (about 60 grams, 2.11 ounces), room temperature
- 100 ml/grams (3.53 ounces) milk room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pandan extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Glaze (optional)
- 120 grams (4.23 ounces) white chocolate (or dark or milk chocolate) roughly chopped
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
Instructions
For the Donuts
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) and grease a donut pan with softened butter and lightly coat with corn starch (flour) (see note 1). Dust off any excess flour.
- Mix the glutinous rice flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium sized mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, mix the melted butter and brown sugar. Then whisk in the egg. Once the egg is mixed through, stir through the milk, pandan extract, and vanilla extract.
- Add the wet ingredients from step 3 to the dry ingredients from step 2. Mix until combined and there are no lumps.
- Place the batter evenly in the prepared donut pan. (see note 2). Then bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the tops of the donuts become lightly browned.
- Once baked, remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 5 to 10 minutes. After this, remove donuts from the pan and allow to cool completely. (see note 3).
For the Glaze (optional)
- Melt chocolate in a microwave or using the double boiler method. Once melted, mix through the vegetable oil. Place the melted chocolate and oil mixture in a bowl wide enough to dip a donut in.
- Dip each cooled donut in the chocolate mixture, shaking off any excess mixture. Place on a wire rack (glaze side up). Optional: Sprinkle the glazed mochi donuts with crushed biscuits before the glaze sets.
Notes
- This should make it less likely the donuts stick to the donut tin.
- You could use a spoon to do this, or even a piping bag.
- If you are having difficultly removing the donuts from the pan, use a toothpick carefully around the edges of the donuts. This should loosen the donuts from the pan.
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