Baked vanilla sour cream donuts

This social distancing has got me all into baking right at the moment. I am doing good with supplies now, but all this nonsense baking has me worried that I might run out. You all know me, even though I teach about nutritious food, I also teach about not allowing yourself to feel deprived. And let’s face it, sometimes a donut just tastes delicious.

In fact, my family has a little tradition. Each Sunday after church, we stop and get a donut. Not only have the last couple of weeks taken us out of our church, it has also taken us away from our little treat after church.

I get the same donut each time, a cake donut. It’s like a two for one – cake and donut – all sweet cravings satisfied. I like all the cake donuts, chocolate, vanilla, blueberry – they are all my number one. However, if I could get my hands on a sour cream cruller…man, what a good day it would be. Sadly, I haven’t seen any of those around here – not fresh anyway. And there’s no point in eating a stale donut. The point is that it tastes good.

Since you’ve looked at the title, you already know I don’t fry these. The most important reason is, I don’t really fry anything – it’s not my style. And if we’re really going to get into it, frying is a little wasteful right now. I know I’m limited on supplies and the stores are having a hard time keeping up, so baking over frying should be the priority.

These are easy baking ingredients that you probably already have on hand and hopefully, you have one of these handy dandy donut pans – I love it!

Baked vanilla sour cream donuts

• Author: sarahpflugradt
• Prep Time: 10
• Cook Time: 12
• Total Time: 22 minutes
• Yield: 12 donuts 1x

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Ingredients

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non-stick cooking spray

1/2 cup low fat or full fat sour cream do not use no-fat

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup canola oil

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon table salt

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1.5 tablespoons water

1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste optional

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Instructions

Spray your donut pan with non stick cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350°F

In a medium mixing bowl, add sour cream, egg, vanilla, canola oil, and sugar and stir until combined

On top of wet ingredients, add flour, baking powder, and salt

Stir the dry ingredients gently together on top and then fold them into the wet ingredients

Fill each donut space 1/2 full with batter

Bake 10-12 minutes or until they are light brown on top

After removing from the oven, let them cool slightly and turn the donuts out on a cooling rack

In a small bowl, mix powdered sugar, water, and vanilla bean paste (if you have it)

Pour glaze over cooled donuts and allow the glaze to set

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