These Vanilla Baked Doughnuts with Buttercream Flowers are beautiful for the Spring and Summer months.
Ok, baked doughnuts are cheating a little. They’re more like little cakes when you don’t fry them. Doesn’t matter. They’re delicious either way!
And they’re actually easier to make than fried doughnuts. Just a batter spooned or piped into a doughnut pan.
I like to use a silicon doughnut pan because it’s much easier to take them out. You can purchase one on Amazon.
The recipe I used is adapted from Brooklyn Farm Girl’s Baked Doughnuts recipe, which is really great!
I increase the recipe by a half to accommodate the size of my doughnut pans.
When you make the buttercream flowers, make them a day ahead of time and place them in the freezer or refrigerator overnight. This will make it easier to place them on the doughnuts. After you placed on, you can use additional buttercream colored green to add leaves and buds.
Enjoy!
Makes 1 Dozen
Recipe:
1 cup + 2 tbsp oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
Buttercream Flowers:
1 cup butter, softened
3-4 cups powdered sugar
3 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
Buttercream:
Cream butter with a mixer. Add sugar, salt, vanilla, and milk. Mix.
Reserve about 1 cup in a sealed container and place in the refrigerator.
Place about 3 tbsp into a bowl and add green food gel. Cover and refrigerate.
Divide the rest into about 3 bowls depending on how many colors you want. Make them violet, peach and pink. Pipe out flowers and place them on a baking sheet in the refrigerator or freezer overnight.
The next day, Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour the doughnut pan or pans.
In a mixer, mix oil, vanilla, eggs and buttermilk. Add sugar, and the rest of the dry ingredients. With a spoon, spoon batter 3/4 of the way to the top of the doughnut wells. Or place the batter in a piping bag and snip off the tip and pipe into the wells.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until slightly browned. Cool completely, then carefully invert the doughnuts out of the pan. If you are using one pan, wash it out, and repeat the process again.
Spread white buttercream on the tops. Add 3-4 roses on top. With green buttercream, pipe leaves and buds.
