Baked Strawberry Doughnuts

By á-3646

Ingredients

• Strawberry Glaze:
• 2 tbsp butter, at room temperature
• 2 culs flour, plus more for doughnut pan
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2/3 cup strawberries, finely chopped
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup strawberries, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup freeze dried strawberries, finely crushed to powder (place in a ziploc bag, crush with rolling pin.

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375*. Butter doughnut pans with room temperature butter, then sprinkle lightly with flour and shake upside down to remove excess flour.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt, make a well in center of mixture and set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together buttermilk, vegetable oil,vanilla and eggs. (mixture will appear to curdle a bit, which is fine), then pour into well in flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir mixture just until combined, then fold in 2/3 cup finely chopped strawberries.

Spoon 2 1/2 tbsp batter evenly into each well of doughnut pans. Bake in preheated oven 11-13 minutes until toothpick inserted into center of doughnuts comes out clean. Allow to cool several minutes in doughnut pan then invert onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Once cool, dip top halves of doughnuts into glaze and allow some of excess to run off, then return to wire reck, glazed side up. Transfer doughnuts to freezer to allow glaze to set, about 5 minutes.

For the Strawberry Glaze:
In a mixing bowl, combine 1/2 cup of finely chopped strawberries and half of powdered sugar. Stir until mixture starts to become moistened, then allow to rest 1 minutes. Add remaining powdered sugar and freeze dried strawberry powder and stir well to combine.