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August 7, 2014

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts

If you find yourself with a cup of cherries, make these easy baked cherry vanilla bean doughnuts! You won’t be able to eat only one. 

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

Do you like doughnuts? Cause I sure do!

I overbought cherries (again!) so I decided to make doughnuts out of them.  There’s nothing like doughnuts to make a bad day better.

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

My bad day wasn’t serious or anything.  Just one of those days.  It started off pretty blah with a to-do list longer than anyone’s list should ever be.  Crossed off a few items and then Mr. B and I decided to try out a new recipe.

We bought a pizza stone for the grill a few weeks ago and decided it was a good day to try it out for the first time.  I concocted a weird sounding but delicious tasting-in-my-head pizza recipe – the ingredients are really not important because the pizza really sucked.  My mental palette failed me.

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

The imitation mozzarella cheese that Mr. B. bought by accident also failed me.  People, don’t buy imitation mozzarella cheese.  Seriously.  It looks normal, but doesn’t melt and has a freaky texture when you eat it.  I don’t know how he confused them.  But I can assure you neither one of us will ever buy imitation cheese again (on accident or on purpose).

On top of that, I forgot to put oil or flour (whatever is supposed to make the pizza unsticky) on the pizza stone, and we couldn’t even saw the pizza off of it.  The combination of unmelted fake cheese and pizza pieces went into a bowl and we tried to eat it.  Our neighbor politely declined our offer to try my experiment and I don’t blame him one bit.

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

I was bummed (and hungry), so I decided to make doughnuts.  Lesson of the day – any spectacular kitchen fail can be quickly cleared up by a good doughnut.

We don’t really fry things in my household (high cholesterol and blood pressure must be thwarted!), so baked doughnuts are how we do it here.  Not that baking them makes them healthy but in my head they’re slightly better for you.

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

These baked cherry vanilla bean doughnuts are really easy to make.  The cherries’ flavor definitely takes over the doughnut but a very vanilla glaze helps bring out the vanilla beans.  They’re really easy to make and all you really need is a doughnut pan – I picked up mine at HomeGoods awhile ago but I see them there all of the time.  I only have one – if you’re out and about buying one, consider buying two.  Just saying.

Before you begin mixing the dough, prep your cherries and vanilla beans.  At least that’s what works for me – I chopped up all my cherries and scraped my vanilla beans and then the whole prepping/baking process was fast.  After the finished doughnuts cool, the glaze mixes up super fast and then you’re ready to glaze and eat.

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts

Yield: 12

Ingredients

Doughnuts

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 vanilla beans, cut down the middle, scrapped of seeds
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup cherries, pitted, cut into eight pieces

Glaze

  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoons milk

Instructions

Doughnuts

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease the doughnut pan with extra butter or cooking spray and set aside.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  3. Combine the milk, butter, vinegar, vanilla extract, vanilla seeds and egg in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until the butter melts.
  4. Add butter mixture to flour mixture and with a wooden spoon, stir to combine. When the mixture is combined, fold in the cherries.
  5. Spoon or pipe the mixture into the prepared doughnut pan. Bake for 13-14 minutes until the finished doughnuts edges come off the pan. Remove from oven and let cool for 1 minute, then finish cooling on rack. If using the same pan again, wait 5 minutes before filling the pan a second time.

Vanilla Glaze

  1. Combine all ingredients in a small bowl with a wire whisk. Wait 1-2 minutes for the glaze to thicken before dipping the doughnuts in the glaze.

Notes

Doughnut recipe adapted from Diethood. br]Glaze recipe adapted from [Cooking Classy.

© Jenny B - Honey and Birch
Category: dessert

Baked Cherry Vanilla Bean Doughnuts | Honey and Birch

I hope on your next bad day, you make these doughnuts!  They definitely make a bad day better. 🙂

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Comments

  1. Crystal says

    August 15, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    Holy crap, those look good. Saw this on tastespotting…. 🙂

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      August 15, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      Thanks Crystal! And they taste as good as they look! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says

    August 20, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    These are some seriously gorgeous doughnuts right here!

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      August 20, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      Thank you Jocelyn!! They’re pretty tasty too 🙂

      Reply
  3. Stephanie Bondlow says

    September 6, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    These look really delicious. I love doughnuts, and these will be a new flavor for me.

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      September 7, 2014 at 11:22 am

      Thanks Stephanie! I hope you enjoy them!

      Reply
  4. Kelly @ Kelly's Kinda Crazy says

    September 18, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    OMG these look AMAZING!!! Pinned to to try later 🙂

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      September 18, 2014 at 7:21 pm

      Awesome! Thanks for pinning, Kelly!

      Reply
  5. Anita L says

    September 20, 2014 at 5:51 am

    OMG! Your photo’s are so amazing that I can almost taste those donuts through my monitor! I had to pin this to try later, looks so yummy!! Thank you for sharing 🙂

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      September 20, 2014 at 2:48 pm

      You’re welcome Anita – I promise you, they are as tasty as the look!

      Reply
  6. Lisa L. says

    November 12, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    WoW !! Pinned. Great idea!

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      November 13, 2014 at 8:58 am

      Thanks for pinning Lisa!

      Reply
  7. Jess says

    February 10, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    This looks absolutely sinful, great post!

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      February 11, 2015 at 12:18 am

      Thanks Jess! Cheers!

      Reply
  8. Mandi says

    February 11, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    Stopping by from Wine’d Down Wednesday. These look amazing! And congrats on your feature! =)

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      February 11, 2015 at 12:47 pm

      Thanks!! 🙂

      Reply
  9. Season C says

    June 30, 2015 at 2:35 am

    My neighbor gave me a gallon of fresh cherries today and there’s no way we’re going to eat them all! Your recipe sounds perfect, I’m going to make it tomorrow. The only thing is- can I substitute vanilla extract? I know it won’t be quite the same, but we’re eking out our supplies til payday, iykwim. If so, how much should I use? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Jenny B says

      June 30, 2015 at 7:39 am

      That is a good question, Season, and one I unfortunately don’t have a definitive answer to. I have never subbed vanilla extract for the beans so am not sure my next suggestions will work. If I were testing it out, I would add an additional teaspoon of vanilla extract and reduce the milk by a teaspoon. You could also try omitting the vanilla beans altogether.

      I will put testing these 2 suggestions on my test recipe list but probably won’t be able to try it out soon enough. I hope that my suggestions work out for you!

      Reply

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