Baked Red Velvet Donuts

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Tender and fluffy, these beautiful baked red velvet donuts are kissed with cocoa and smothered in cool cream cheese frosting. These donuts are made quickly in one bowl, so they’re simple enough for beginning bakers and for times you want a dessert in under 30 minutes.

I made these on Great Day Live Tampa for Valentine’s Day. But these scrumptious red velvet donuts are perfect for any occasion!

If you watched the show you know these are some good baked donuts! So good that I was missing all my unfrosted donuts when airtime started. While I was getting ready, the girls snuck into the kitchen and ate them all! So even without that show stopping cream cheese frosting, these red velvet donuts are irresistible!

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Red Velvet Donuts

If you love red velvet then you will go Gaga for these baked red velvet donuts! These donuts have a texture similar to a fluffy cupcake within a slightly crisped outer edge you’d get from the corner piece of a brownie. I always add a touch more cocoa powder to my red velvet in order to max out the otherwise subdued flavor profile.

I have found Red velvet to be a highly debated flavor in the cake world. And this could be due to the flavor that’s neither vanilla nor chocolate. Red velvet has a very light chocolate flavor with a touch of acidity and tang from buttermilk and sometimes vinegar. Additionally, it takes a lot of red food coloring to achieve the deep red hue pictured! I added a link to the Ameri-Color food coloring I used for the color pictured.

The cream cheese frosting is my favorite part of any red velvet treat! I incorporate an extra splash of vanilla in the following recipe to shake things up a bit.

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Tips For Making Baked Donuts

Baked donuts are simple, quick, and fun to make. Here are a few tips and tricks for making the best baked donuts.

1. Make baked donuts in a similar way to pancakes or waffles, where wet ingredients and melted butter are added to dry ingredients.
2. Do not over-mix the batter. Use a light hand so you don’t overwork the gluten in the flour.
3. Use donut pans! Lightly grease the donut pans, even nonstick ones. You will be frosting the underside of the donuts, so this ensures a smooth surface for the whole donut.
4. Pipe out the donut batter into donut pans. This will give you the same size and look for all donuts.
5. Turn the donuts out of pans soon after they come out of the oven to prevent sticking. Use oven mitts to handle pans!
6. Let the donuts cool completely before frosting. Bonus, They cool really quickly!
7. Pipe out the frosting to achieve the same red velvet baked donut look I have in this post.
8. For a traditional red velvet look, sprinkle on some of the cake crumbs left from turning donuts out of pans.

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