Baked Strawberry Donuts: Breakfast Is Served
From Quick Bread to Donuts
Hi everybody :)
"Welcome to another Breakfast Is Served Sunday!" If you're just tuning in to my post, every Sunday I try to post a Breakfast Is Served. The last Breakfast Is Served post was Oatmeal Waffles.
Today we're having Baked Strawberry Donuts! Did you know you can adjust just about any quick bread recipe to make muffins, donuts, and scones with a few easy changes to how it's baked? I did just that to a strawberry bread recipe from a Gooseberry Patch cookbook. Here's what I did...
Baked Strawberry Donuts
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup oil (1 part olive oil & 1 part vegetable oil)
1 cup strawberries, hulled and chopped
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons cup chopped walnuts; optional
Powdered sugar or Lemon Icing; for topping, optional
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease donut pan(s); set aside.
In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and sugar; set aside.
In a small bowl combine oils and eggs.
Add to dry mixture along with strawberries and nuts, if using.
Stir just until moist.
Divide among pan(s) filling each donuts 3/4 full. (I used this pan). Baked 15 -20 minutes or until done. Cool in an a few minutes. Remove to cooling rack, cool for 15 minutes.
Top with icing or sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired.
Sweet Strawberry Bread:
To make Sweet Strawberry Loaves, double the ingredients for the donuts (originally 2 cups sugar and 1 1/4 cups walnuts). Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and sugar . Add eggs, one at a time. beating well addition. Stir in oil; mix remaining ingredients. Divide batter between 2 greased and floured 9x5" loaf pans. Bake at 350 for one hour. Makes 2 loaves.
adapted: 101 Hearty Recipes Cookbook
Lemon Icing:
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
Milk and/or lemon juice
Blend together butter, powdered sugar. and extract. Add milk one tablespoon at a time until you reach the right consistency for icing. For variations vanilla or almond extract can be used in the place of lemon.
adapted: One Smart Cookie
What I Think:
To cut calories, I think the next time I would use applesauce in the place of oil or lower the oil down to 1/2 cup, using all olive oil and decease the sugar to 1/2 cup also.
The Taste: I love, love, love the donuts! The icing was great with the donuts too. Most definitely a great REPEAT!
ENJOY! Come again...
Linked to:
Scrumptious Sunday Recipe Link Party @ Addicted Recipes
BYOB @ Roxana's Home Baking : (Feb 2013) Bake Your Own Bread
Mop Up Mondays - I Should be Mopping the Floor
Sweet 2 Eat Baking: Sugar & Slice Sunday
Watch Out Martha
Marvelous Mondays @ This Gal Cooks
Melt In Your Mouth Monday @ Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms
The Chicken Chick: Clever Chicks Blog Hop
Flour Me With Love: Mix it up Monday!
Recipe Sharing Monday @ Jam Hands
Jaime @ Mom's Test Kitchen
Lemons for Lulu: Saturday Share With Us
Mop Up Mondays - I Should be Mopping the Floor
Sweet 2 Eat Baking: Sugar & Slice Sunday
Watch Out Martha
Marvelous Mondays @ This Gal Cooks
Melt In Your Mouth Monday @ Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms
The Chicken Chick: Clever Chicks Blog Hop
Flour Me With Love: Mix it up Monday!
Recipe Sharing Monday @ Jam Hands
Jaime @ Mom's Test Kitchen
Lemons for Lulu: Saturday Share With Us
Yum!! I think that I might try these with blueberries because that is what I have :) Thinking about making these soon!! I just got the doughnut pan for Christmas and still haven't used it!!
ReplyDeleteI'm always looking for new donut recipes, I love them! Especially baked! These strawberry donuts will be put on my rotation for sure! Would love it you'd share these at Saturday Share With Us!
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Thank you so much for taking the time to share these donuts at Saturday Share With Us! I'm so grateful and hope you'll be back to share more tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteThese look so delicious! Strawberry is one of my favorites. Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday :)
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Just made them for breakfast this morning and I am going to post my results soon! We did them without the fruit so that my son would eat them. They would be so much better with the fruit but they were yummy!!!
ReplyDeleteWe should make these one morning. I've never made donuts before. Show me, please.
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