Baked Vanilla Doughnuts with White Frosting

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 220.0
  • Total Fat: 3.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 42.9 mg
  • Sodium: 236.5 mg
  • Total Carbs: 41.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.7 g
  • Protein: 4.4 g

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Introduction

These doughnuts are lower in fat and calories and easy to make. But require a special baking pan. I got this recipe from Family Circle (April 1, 2010 issue). It is great. These doughnuts are lower in fat and calories and easy to make. But require a special baking pan. I got this recipe from Family Circle (April 1, 2010 issue). It is great.
Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

    Doughnuts:
    1.25cup All Purpose Flour
    1/2 tsp Baking Soda
    1/4 tsp Salt
    1/2 cup low-fat Buttermilk
    1/3 cup Dark-brown Sugar
    1 Egg
    4 tsp Unsalted Butter, Melted (*note this is teaspoons not tablespoons)
    1 tsp Vanilla Extract

    Frosting:
    1/2 cup Confectioners Sugar
    1 tbsp Milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 325F, and coat a 6-indent doughnut pan with cooking spray.
Whisk together Flour, Salt, and Baking Soda*. In a separate bowl whisk together melted butter, egg, buttermilk, vanilla, and brown sugar. Whisk the two bowls together until smooth.
Spoon batter into a plastic resealable bag and cut off one corner. Use this to squeeze batter into indents of pan until 2/3 full.
Cook for 13minutes of until tops spring back when touched. When doughnuts are cooled. Mix confectioners sugar and milk**. Dip doughnuts into frosting. Let sit on a rack until set.

*For chocolate doughnuts reduce flour to 1 cup and add 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.

**For chocolate frosting add an extra tbsp of milk and 1 tbsp of cocoa powder.

(utrition is very similar for vanilla vs chocolate)

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RMKWILSON.