Sweet & delicious baked strawberry donuts.
Vegan
Whole-Grain
Refined-Sugar-Free
(See the step-by-step video, above)
Growing up, I always used to love it when my mom would buy a package of sponge cake dessert cups from the grocery store and we’d top them with sliced strawberries and whipped cream for a simple strawberry shortcake.
One taste of these light and pillowy strawberry donuts took me right back to the sponge-cake shortcakes of childhood. And even better, these donuts are free of all the extra refined sugars, preservatives, and artificial flavors present in the store-bought dessert cups. They’re pretty darn easy to make, too: Stir the ingredients together in a bowl, smooth into a donut pan or muffin tin, and bake in the oven.
Frosting Options:
Healthy Reddi-Wip Whipped Cream
Homemade Greek Yogurt Frosting
You can also opt to eat them topped with jam or frosted with almond or peanut butter or vanilla yogurt of choice. Or you can make a basic donut glaze of 1 cup powdered sugar mixed with 1-2 tbsp milk of choice and 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract. They’re delicious unfrosted, too!
Baked Strawberry Donuts
Adapted from Blueberry Baked Donuts
Baked Strawberry Donuts – Refined Sugar Free!
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp white or apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup or agave or honey
- 3 1/2 tbsp oil – If you don’t mind fat-free texture, you can use applesauce (35g)
- 1 cup flour, loosely packed (works with all-purpose, spelt, or gf all-purpose mix) (125g)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup diced strawberries, fresh or frozen-thawed (60g)
- optional add-ins: pinch cinnamon, handful mini chocolate chips or shredded coconut
Instructions
Combine first 5 ingredients. Set aside. Grease a donut pan OR mini muffin pan, and preheat oven to 350 F. Stir together all remaining ingredients except strawberries. (For best taste and texture, I highly recommend the oil option.) Pour wet into dry once oven is preheated, and stir until just evenly mixed. Don’t overmix. Stir in the berries. Bake 10-12 minutes, or until donuts have risen and batter is no longer wet. Let sit 5 minutes before removing from the pan. Frosting ideas are listed earlier in this post.
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olive jason says
yummy the picture itself make it delicious gonna try them thank you for sharing
Gerry Bruno says
These are so good. My 4 year old twin boys absolutely approve.
Jason Sanford says
Such a cute picture!
Bernarda says
Really good recipe. ☺️ Ended up using only 40grams of honey and substituted 15 out of 35 grams of oil for greek yoghurt and they tasted amazing! They would be perfect with some protein powder in it.
Kat says
Do you think this might work with jam instead of berries?
So hard to find good fresh or frozen here.
I’d probably add some mini chocolate chips too! ;D
Graleanne says
Hi Katie and Jason! I made up a glaze recipe that’s unbelievable on these delicious donuts:
Berry Pink Glaze.
3 TBSP strawberry juice (liquid leftover from thawed frozen strawberries)
1 cup powdered sugar or xylitol
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Mix it all up. Taste it: it’s absolutely amazing. I came up with it just as an experiment but it’s actually *really good*.
Hope all you guys can try it and love it too!
CCK Media Team says
That sounds so good!
Hana says
Hello, can I substitute puréed banana in place of the sweetener? Thanks!
Liv13 says
Looks good!!
Juliana says
These turned out incredible! The taste was amazing. I used all purpose flour, unsweetened oat milk, pure maple syrup and coconut oil. I added some mini semi sweet chocolate chips but they would have been just as good without them.
I made a glaze using icing sugar and the oat milk as well. Everyone loved them, and they looked so pretty too!
https://share.icloud.com/photos/01WwTvj7JdlTfgaAHuDQLzpUw
CCK Media Team says
Thank you so much for making them, and your photo is gorgeous!