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Ingredients
- Doughnuts:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoon low-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
- 2 large eggs
- 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Icing:
- 1 cup frozen strawberries, thawed
- 3/4 cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375ºF.
Whisk together all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt) in a medium bowl.
In a separate bowl, beat eggs, oil, and yogurt.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Don’t over-mix or your doughnuts will likely be too dense.
Make sure your doughnut pan is greased or buttered. Even if it’s a non-stick pan, you’ll want to oil it well as healthy-ish doughnuts can tend to stick.
Fill each doughnut form half full. You can use a pastry bag to do this, but I found it easier to simply spoon the filling in.
Bake doughnuts at 375ºF for 10-12 minutes. You’ll know they’re done when they’re slightly brown and spring back at touch. Remove doughnuts from pan and let them cool on a rack.
Of course, you’ll want a topping or coating for your doughnuts, right? I had frozen strawberries and thought a strawberry icing would be pretty. Again, I decided to use Cabot’s vanilla Greek yogurt for the icing, instead of butter. This makes a much healthier icing! You could probably half my below recipe since I was left with quite a bit of leftover icing (not always a bad thing).
In a blender or food processor, puree strawberries until nice and smooth.
Whisk together confectioner sugar and yogurt until well-blended.
Pour strawberry puree into mix and combine with whisk.
At this point, I put the icing in the fridge for about 30 minutes since it was extremely thin. It didn’t thicken up a whole lot, but it was a little better. Of course, butter would have thickened it right up, but, well…I was determined to make a butter-free icing!
With a pastry brush, lightly glaze each doughnut.
I put a couple coats of icing on since it was thin and seemed to get sucked into the doughnut.
Then I put some sprinkles on top. I was super happy with how the doughnuts ended up in appearance… So pretty!