Baked Strawberry Donuts: A fresh, sweet breakfast treat!

Baked strawberry donuts are made with sour cream, which creates soft and tender cake donuts. This recipes uses fresh strawberries in the vanilla donuts and the sweet strawberry glaze.

Original Publish Date: May 24, 2017.

Strawberry donuts are the perfect spring or summer breakfast treat! These homemade donuts are filled with fresh strawberries in both the baked donut and the pretty pink icing glaze. Make the cake donuts from scratch with a few staple ingredients. They mix up in just one bowl.

There is no yeast in this easy recipe, and you can make them without frying them in hot oil.

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Here’s Why You’ll Love This Baked Donut Recipe

• A vanilla-flavored cake donut filled with sweet fresh strawberries and the prettiest naturally pink glaze made from a pureed fresh strawberry.
• The homemade donuts are fluffy, soft, and tender!
• No mixer is required for the donuts, just two bowls and a whisk.
• The donuts are baked in a donut pan, so no dealing with splattering oil! Don’t worry, you can bake them in a muffin pan if you don’t have a donut pan.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• All-purpose flour: Adds structure to the donuts. Use a scale to measure the flour or the spoon and level method to make sure you don’t add too much flour.
• Kosher salt: Helps to balance the flavors.
• Baking powder: The leavening agent needed to give the homemade donuts some lift.
• Sugar: Granulated sugar is needed for the cake donuts and powdered sugar is used for the pink strawberry glaze.
• Sour Cream: Use full-fat sour cream for the best soft and tender crumb.
• Vanilla: Helps to round out the flavors.
• Oil: Use vegetable or canola oil to add moisture and tenderness to this donut recipe.
• Egg: Use one large egg, which helps to bind the baked donuts together.
• Strawberries: Use the ripest fresh strawberries you can find. The riper the strawberries are, the more the strawberry flavor shines.

In Photos: How To Make Strawberry Donuts

Preheat the oven to 350° F and lightly mist a donut pan with non-stick spray.

Step 1: Place the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl and whisk to combine.

Place the sour cream, sugar, oil, egg, and vanilla in a small mixing bowl, and whisk to combine.

Step 2: Now add the liquid ingredients to the dry and fold together until just barely combined.

Step 3: Fold in the diced strawberries.

Step 4: Then transfer the batter to the prepared pan.

Step 5: To make the glaze, place the powdered sugar, strawberries, and lemon zest in a food processor or use the chopper attachment of your hand blender and pulse to combine.

Step 6: Top the cooled donuts with the fresh strawberry glaze.

Expert Tips and Tricks

• Chop the strawberries into small pieces, about the size of an average blueberry.
• Grease the donut pan well. You can use baking spray or butter.
• If the glaze seems too runny, add a little more powdered sugar. If it seems too thick, puree in a bit more fresh strawberry.
• Use a piece of parchment paper under the donuts once they are glazed to catch any drips and make cleanup a breeze.

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Baked Strawberry Donuts

These baked strawberry donuts are made with sour cream, which creates soft and tender cake donuts. This recipes uses fresh strawberries in the vanilla donuts and the strawberry glaze.

For the baked strawberry donuts

• Preheat the oven to 350° F, and lightly mist a doughnut pan with non-stick spray.
• Place the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl and whisk to combine.

• Place the sour cream, sugar, oil, egg, and vanilla in a small mixing bowl, and whisk to combine.

• Add the liquid ingredients to the dry, and fold together until just barely combined. Fold in the diced strawberries, and transfer the batter to the prepared pan.

• Bake for 14 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the thickest part of a doughnut comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.

• To make the glaze, place the powdered sugar, strawberries, and lemon zest in a food processor or with the chopper attachment of the KitchenAid® 5-Speed Hand Blender and pulse to combine.

• Top the cooled doughnuts with glaze.

Serving: 1donut, Calories: 332kcal, Carbohydrates: 48g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 14g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 37mg, Sodium: 214mg, Potassium: 77mg, Sugar: 32g, Vitamin A: 160IU, Vitamin C: 8.4mg, Calcium: 30mg, Iron: 1.2mg