Vanilla mini donuts baked with fresh strawberries and then frosted with a milk chocolate ganache.
Strawberry season is here and with it comes an abundance of strawberry recipes. So many that in fact, you can easily burn yourself out with strawberry flavored everything. Are you one of those families that when the local strawberry farm opens up for strawberry picking you come home with 10lbs of strawberries? It is ok. We do it too.
So now that you have 10lbs of strawberries what do you do? Search Pinterest for thousands of strawberry recipes. If you are here via Pinterest! Hi! I am addicted to Pinterest too! I also have a strawberry basil cocktail or strawberry muffins if strawberry recipes are your obsession right now. When you run out of strawberries I have a killer savory donut recipe and mini cinnamon sugar donuts you should definitely try out.
Top Tips for Mini Strawberry Donuts
- When you bake these and they come out of the oven they are UGLY! The tops are uneven due to the strawberries. Not to worry we are going to cover them up with milk chocolate frosting. Chocolate makes everything better.
- If your chocolate burns or drys out add a tablespoon of milk and stir until smooth again.
Chocolate Frosted Baked Strawberry Donuts
Vanilla strawberry mini donuts baked with fresh strawberries and then frosted with a milk chocolate ganache.
Ingredients
Ingredients for mini strawberry donuts
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 Tbs melted butter
- 1 ½ teaspoon pure bourbon vanilla extract
- 1 cup diced fresh strawberries
Ingredients for chocolate frosting
- ½ cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 Tbs butter cut into pieces
- 1 teaspoon light corn syrup
- 1 Tbs milk
Instructions
Directions for donuts.
- Lightly spray cooking spray in donut pan.
Preheat oven to 350F. - Set strawberries aside for now. They will be folded in after everything is well combined.
- Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Mix wet ingredients in a separate mixing bowl.
- Slowly pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until well combined.
- Fold in strawberries.
- Pour batter into a piping bag or ziplock bag and cut the end off.
- Pipe batter into the donut molds about ¾ of the way full. **
- Bake for 16-18 minutes.
- Let donuts cool.
Directions for chocolate frosting.
There are 2 ways you can do this. You can use the double boiler method or the microwave method.
Double boiler:
- Place all ingredients into double boiler and slowly melt ingredients.
- Stir constantly.
- Remove from heat once chocolate is melted and you have a silky consistency.
Microwave:
- Place all ingredients into microwave safe bowl.
- Microwave for 15 seconds stirring in between cooking times until fully melted.
Directions for frosting the donut.
- Dip and swirl donuts in the chocolate frosting and place on a rack for the frosting to set. (About 20 minutes)
- Serve after chocolate has set (if you can wait that long).
Notes
**You can spoon the batter into the molds but the bag method is a lot cleaner, faster, and easier.
