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FLORAL DOUGHNUTS

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Author: Lindsay Nathanson

Ingredients
  

FLORAL DOUGHNUTS

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup cake flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon lavender extract (depending on how floral you want it to taste)
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • Doughnut Pan

ICING

  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 3-4 tablespoons milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • Food coloring of your choice (I used pink and purple)
  • Toothpicks
  • Edible flowers (I got mine at a Natural Foods Market)
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Instructions
 

FOR THE DOUGHNUTS:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a Doughnut Pan with non-stick cooking spray.
  • In a medium bowl, combine flours, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
  • In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix butter and sugar.
  • Add eggs, vanilla extract and lavender extract.
  • On a low speed, add dry ingredients. Mix until combined.
  • Slowly stream in milk. Mix until combined.
  • Place batter into a large piping bag.
  • Pipe batter so that each doughnut mold is 3/4 of the way full.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes.
  • Place doughnuts on wire rack to cool.

FOR THE ICING:

  • Put powdered sugar in a bowl.
  • Whisk in milk and vanilla.
  • Place icing in a small bowl.
  • Place 1/4 cup of icing in a small bowl and use food coloring to dye it.

FOR THE DECORATION:

  • Prepare a wire rack with a piece of parchment or wax paper underneath.
  • Dip half of the doughnut into the white icing.
  • Dip a toothpick into the colored icing. Drag the toothpick along the white icing. Re-dip the toothpick and repeat randomly around the doughnut.
  • Add edible flowers.

Notes

*Makes about 12 doughnuts