Homemade Baked Chocolate Donuts with Strawberry Glaze Icing

Well I had meant to get this recipe posted a couple days ago, but it seems the universe had other plans. Both boys caught some sort of virus that included a high fever, nasty chest cough, pink eye, and LOTS of snot. So I have spent most of the past few days cuddling, reading stories, watching movies and trying to get them to eat something... anything.

Phinn and I made these donuts for his class since he was in charge of bringing snack to school this week. He loves to be my baking assistant. He likes to help me pour ingredients in and then take a turn mixing everything together. Then he watches the oven eagerly as they bake, waiting until he can do the official taste test.

These donuts got two sticky chocolate thumbs up from Phinn and from Hubs who spotted the rows of them on the kitchen table as soon as he got home. I actually knew Phinn was sick the next morning because I offered to let him have one at breakfast and he didn't touch it. My son with the super sweet tooth, who never says no to anything chocolate ever, passed on it.

Anyway, we are all on the mend around here and just in time to enjoy all the snow we got and Valentine's day.

So without further ado, here is my very first recipe (Yay!). These are perfect if you are looking for something special and sweet to make for your Valentine(s) this weekend. While they aren't healthy so to say, they are about as healthy as a glazed donut gets ;)

Baked Chocolate Donuts with Strawberry Glaze Icing

Ingredients
Donuts:
1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/8 tsp salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup sour cream (or you can sub plain greek yogurt)
1/2 cup milk
3 tbsp canola oil (or you can sub coconut oil)

Glaze
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat your oven to 375.

Spray your donut pan with baking spray or use butter to grease it.

Combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl and set aside.

In a small bowl, whisk the eggs and then add the vanilla, sour cream, milk, and oil. Mix until combined.

Next pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and stir until just combined.

Spoon the mixture into the donut pan.

For mini donut pans bake 5-6 minutes, and for standard size donut pans bake 7-8 minutes.

Allow donuts to cool before removing from the pan and placing on a wire rack to cool completely.

For the glaze:
While the donuts are baking, cut your strawberries and place them in a blender. Blend until you have a fairly smooth puree.

Add 2/3 of the puree to a small sauce pan, bring to a boil over medium heat and reduce mixture by a third. Then add the last 1/3 of the puree to the pan, stir, and remove from heat.

Add powdered sugar, milk and vanilla to a bowl and whisk until completely mixed. Then add strawberry puree and mix again.

To glaze the donuts, I placed the donuts on wax paper and then dunked each one into the bowl of glaze. Then I placed it back on the wax paper until the glaze hardened or they were eaten...(not going to say what happened at our house)

These taste great with a cold glass of milk or a good cup of coffee which ever you prefer.

Enjoy!! Happy Valentine's Day!