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Red Velvet Donuts with Glaze
Glazed Red Velvet Donuts make a fun and indulgent Valentine's Day breakfast.
- Prep2 hr
- Cook10 min
- Total2 hr 10 min
- Serves24
These Red Velvet Donuts with Glaze are made from scratch and have a hint of cocoa and vanilla.
. Pancakes are my favorite and I totally devoured them.
This year I want to do donuts so I tried out a recipe from a cookbook I got for Christmas The Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook: Best-Ever Versions for Everything Red Velvet, with More than 50 Scrumptious Sweets and Treats. This is actually the first time I’ve eaten a red velvet donut so I can’t compare them to others, but I thought they were pretty darn good. My kids remarked that they taste kind of like funnel cake. 
These Red Velvet Donuts are fried, not baked. It’s a day for indulgences isn’t it? 
They are covered in a sweet glaze, but now I am wishing I had made a cream cheese frosting for them. Red velvet is kind of naked without cream cheese.
But regardless, won’t your kids think Red Velvet Donuts are a real treat for Valentine’s Day?
Recipe Source: The Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook: Best-Ever Versions for Everything Red Velvet, with More than 50 Scrumptious Sweets and Treats
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Ingredients
Glaze
Steps
- 1
Stir the yeast into the warm water and let sit for 5 minutes.
- 2
In a mixing bowl, combine milk, sugar, and salt. Using a mixer with a paddle attachment, beat in eggs one at a time, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
- 3
Beat in shortening and 2 cups of flour.
- 4
In a small bowl, stir together cocoa powder and food coloring to make a paste.
- 5
Add food coloring paste to dough and mix well.
- 6
Keep adding flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until dough begins to pull away from sides of bowl.
- 7
Switch to a dough hook and knead dough for 5 to 8 minutes, until soft but not sticky.
- 8
Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl, turning dough to coat it in oil.
- 9
Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise until it doubles in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours.
- 10
Fill a Dutch oven with about 2 inches of oil and heat to 350 degrees.
- 11
Cut dough into four pieces, and working 1 piece at a time, roll dough out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/4-inch. Use a 3-inch round cookie cutter and a small round cutter to cut donuts. You can use the small round cutter to make more donut holes out of the scraps.
- 12
Carefully slide a few donuts into the oil. Fry for 35 to 45 seconds and then flip over. Cook the second side about 30 seconds and then place on a rack or a paper towel-lined baking sheet.
- 13
For glaze, combine confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl and whisk until smooth.
- 14
Drizzle glaze on top of dounuts.
