Vanilla Bean Baked Donuts with Strawberry Frosting

I don’t do this often, but when I do, I repeatedly mumble and moan “OMG I need to do this more often.” I LOVE strawberry frosted donuts. I have found the Strawberry Donut flavored Dunkin Donuts coffee (in the bags) at the grocery store, and it’s delicious too!

A few years ago I recreated what I thought, and still agree, is the perfect copycat recipe for those glazed donuts:

Then why you might ask am I sharing another recipe? Well, I undertand some of you (and ME) don’t have time to make yeast donuts. Letting them rise, frying them up. And we all know how delicious fried donuts taste, but they really are only good on the first day.

My husband proclaimed these are his favorite donuts I ever made. The cake donut is very moist and flavored with vanilla beans. Not your typical dry cake donut. So don’t be expecting anything dry and crumbly. I glazed them with my favorite strawberry frosting. You can make this while the donuts are baking. And unlike yeast donuts, these are still good on day two and three (if they last that long). Plus, you can make them (from start to finish) in under 30 minutes!!! That’s a win in my book.

INGREDIENTS:
FOR THE DONUTS:

• 2 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extra
• 1 vanilla bean, scraped
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup skim milk
• 2 Tbsp butter, melted

FOR THE GLAZE:

• 1/4 cup skim milk
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 Tbsp strawberry gelatin powder
• sprinkles, optional

DIRECTIONS:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all donut ingredients until well blended. Fill a donut pan 1/2-3/4 full with batter. I like to put my batter in a large ziploc bag and snip off the corner. Makes filling the donut pan much easier (and cleaner). Bake donuts in a 325 degree oven for about 12 minutes. Remove. Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes, remove from pan and cool completely before glazing.
2. While donuts are baking, add milk, cream and vanilla to a medium sized saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir and heat until warm. Whisk in the gelatin mix and slowly whisk in powdered sugar. Remove from heat.
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for full instruction please see : www.shugarysweets.com

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