Red Velvet Baked Donuts
These baked cake donuts have the classic red velvet flavor with a hint of chocolate and slight tang and glazed in a cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
Red Velvet Donuts
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoon unsweetened natural cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ cup oil
- 2 tablespoon unsalted butter melted
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon red food coloring
Cream Cheese Glaze
- 3 oz cream cheese softened
- 3 oz unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 4-6 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
For the donuts
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease donut pan with nonstick spray.
- Stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder and kosher salt in a medium bowl.
- In a seperate bowl, whisk the eggs and yolk, oil, melted butter, buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and food coloring.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined, being careful not to overmix.
- Spoon the batter into a pastry bag or zip-top bag with the corned cut off after filling and pipe the batter into the donut pan filling each cavity about ½ full.
- Bake for about 8 to 10 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer the donuts to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Dip each donut top-down halfway into the cream cheese glaze letting any excess fall off and dipping a second time for a thicker coating. Decorate with sprinkles as desired!
For the glaze
- Beat the cream cheese and butter together in a bowl until creamy. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add the milk starting with about 4 tablespoon and mix until combined. Add more milk by the tablespoon until you achieve your desired consistency. I used 6 tbsp.
Nutrition
Calories: 213kcal
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