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!
The recipe was adapted from these Blueberry Baked Donuts.
Baked Strawberry Donuts
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar or white vinegar
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup or honey
- 3 1/2 tbsp oil (you can sub applesauce)
- 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 pinch cinnamon or 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.View Nutrition Facts
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Yum!! I just recently found the Chocolate Covered Katie blog and I’m hooked. I’ve already bought her book and tried a handful of recipes – all yummy!! I just made these donuts today (currently cooling on my counter…drool). I made a GF batch and a spelt flour batch. Both Bob’s Red Mill brand. I’d never used spelt flour before…does it typically take longer to cook than other flours? My GF ones were done in about 13-14 minutes, but the spelt flour ones took MUCH longer (about 8-9 more minutes!). I thought they were goners for sure, but the taste of the undercooked one was just too good to give up on so I put them back in the oven. Doing a taste test with my family soon to see which one is the winner.
Do these freeze well? They are absolutely delicious and I want to save some for a party I am having in a week!
Yummy, thank you for your delicious recipe. We mi made them with coconut oil and fresh strawberries. Used all purpose flour as we did not have the other flours. Added cinnamon and fresh grated nutmeg. Delicious!
I have a granddaughter that can’t haven gluten, soy, dairy, refined sugar, artificial colors or flavorings and I love your blog! I made these strawberry donuts exactly how the recipe is written with gff all purpose flour and without any add ins for her this evening and they are absolutely delicious, she loves them! Thank you so much for sharing this!
yummy the picture itself make it delicious gonna try them thank you for sharing
These are so good. My 4 year old twin boys absolutely approve.
Such a cute picture!
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.
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
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!
That sounds so good!
Hello, can I substitute puréed banana in place of the sweetener? Thanks!
Looks good!!
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
Thank you so much for making them, and your photo is gorgeous!
I appreciate the step-by-step instructions. They made baking the donuts easy!