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    Home » Entertaining » Holidays » Valentine's Day » Red Velvet Donuts

    Red Velvet Donuts

    Published: Feb 8, 2018 Modified: Dec 5, 2021 by GG

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    Love is in the air when you bake Red Velvet Donuts! Intense red color, cake-like texture and deep chocolate flavor make them perfect for Valentine's Day! easy dessert | baked donuts | red velvet | Valentine's Day | fun for kids | #swirlofflavor
    Red Velvet Donuts with milk
    red velvet donuts with milk and text overlay

     Love is in the air when you bake our easy recipe for Red Velvet Donuts! Intense red color, cake-like texture and deep chocolate flavor make these doughnuts perfect for Valentine's Day breakfast or dessert! Add holiday sprinkles for a festive Christmas morning treat!

    Baked Red velvet donuts with frosting and sprinkles

    Red Velvet Donuts

    When I think of Valentine’s Day I immediately think red, Red Velvet Cake Donuts, that is! 

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    Red velvet cake with festive holiday sprinkles also brings the holidays to mind and will make your Christmas morning so delicious.

    Our red velvet donuts recipe bakes in a donut pan, are so easy to make and take only minutes to bake!

    An intense red color and fabulous chocolate flavor guarantee these Red Velvet Donuts will let those special people know just how much they are loved. Top them with a vanilla glaze and valentine sprinkles and love is in the air!

    Our red velvet doughnuts are so delicious you’ll want to start your day with them for breakfast and end your day with them for dessert too! Because, after all, there’s nothing quite like a homemade buttermilk donut, now is there?

    Red velvet cake shaped like donuts just makes you feel that Valentine love!

    red velvet dobnuts with bite out and milk with a red straw

     

    How to make baked donuts

    1. Preheat your oven to 400F and coat 2 donut pans with cooking spray.
    2. Combine flour, cocoa powder, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder and kosher salt in a bowl and whisk until blended.
    3. Whisk buttermilk, butter, eggs and vanilla in another bowl until combined.
    4. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture and stir until blended.
    5. Stir in red icing food color.
    6. Pour batter into the 12 donut cavities and bake 10-12 minutes or until tops of donuts spring back when touched.
    7. Cool 5 minutes in pans and then transfer donuts to a wire rack. Cool completely.
    8. While donuts are cooling, combine confectioners’ sugar and warm water in a small bowl stirring until a glaze forms.
    9. Coat donuts with glaze and decorate with valentine sprinkles.

    Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

    • Add mini chocolate chips to the batter
    • Don’t have buttermilk? Make your own by combining 1 cup milk and 1 Tablespoon vinegar. Let stand until mixture thickens.
    • Drizzle melted chocolate over the glaze for added flavor

    Substitutions

    • Substitute green color in place of the red color for green velvet donuts
    • Make Hannakuah donuts with blue color for blue velvet donuts

    Love is in the air when you bake Red Velvet Donuts! Intense red color, cake-like texture and deep chocolate flavor make them perfect for Valentine's Day! easy dessert | baked donuts | red velvet | Valentine's Day | fun for kids

    Ingredients for red velvet doughnuts

    • all-purpose flour
    • unsweetened cocoa powder
    • brown sugar
    • granulated sugar
    • baking powder
    • kosher salt
    • buttermilk
    • butter, melted
    • eggs
    • vanilla extract
    • no taste red icing food color
    • confectioners' sugar
    • warm water
    • Valentine sprinkles

    Red Velvet Recipes

    Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies, Red Velvet Mini Cakes and Red Velvet CookiesIf you love red velvet cake as much as I do, and agree that anything red velvet is perfect for Valentine’s Day, then you'll want to check out these easy recipes too!

    Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies is an easy recipe that combines two favorite desserts, brownies and cheesecake. A homemade red velvet brownie cake is topped with a creamy cheesecake batter and baked to perfection. Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

    Our Red Velvet Mini Cake Recipe is an easy from scratch cake recipe for your Valentine’s Day dessert. Mini cake layers have a deep intense red color and are flavored with cocoa powder for a delicious chocolate flavor. Frost with a homemade buttercream frosting and decorate with Valentine sprinkles and you’ll have adorable red velvet mini cakes that are perfect for sharing on Valentine’s Day.

    The ever popular red velvet cupcake just became a cookie! Top with a peppermint glaze and crushed candy canes and Peppermint Crunch Red Velvet Cookies are all dressed up for the holidays! Make it for Valentine's Day without any peppermint and top with valentine sprinkles for a dessert for your sweetie pie!

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    Red Velvet Donuts

    Love is in the air when you bake Red Velvet Donuts! Intense red color, cake-like texture and deep chocolate flavor make them perfect for Valentine's Day!
    Course Breakfast, Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Keyword red velvet donuts, red velvet donuts recipe
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 12 minutes
    Total Time 27 minutes
    Servings 12
    Calories 234kcal
    Author Gwynn Galvin

    Ingredients

    • 1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
    • 6 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder
    • ½ cup packed brown sugar
    • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
    • 2 tsp. baking powder
    • 1 tsp. kosher salt
    • 1 cup buttermilk
    • ¼ cup butter, melted
    • 2 eggs
    • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
    • 2 tsp. no taste red icing food color
    • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
    • 4-5 tsp. warm water
    • Valentine sprinkles

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 400F. Coat 2 donut pans with no-stick cooking spray.
    • In one bowl whisk flour, cocoa powder, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder and kosher salt until blended.
    • In another bowl whisk buttermilk, butter, eggs and vanilla until combined.
    • Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture and stir until blended. Add red icing food color and stir until batter has turned a deep red color.
    • Divide batter evenly between 12 donut cavities.
    • Bake 10-12 minutes or until tops of donuts spring back when touched. Cool 5 minutes in pans. Transfer to wire rack and cool completely.
    • Meanwhile, in small bowl combine confectioners’ sugar and warm water until a glaze forms.
    • Top cooled donuts with glaze and valentine sprinkles.

    Notes

    Makes 12 donuts.
    Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
    • Add mini chocolate chips to the batter
    • Don’t have buttermilk? Make your own by combining 1 cup milk and 1 Tablespoon vinegar. Let stand until mixture thickens.
    • Drizzle melted chocolate over the glaze for added flavor
    Substitutions
    • Substitute green color in place of the red color for green velvet donuts
    • Make Hannakuah donuts with blue color for blue velvet donuts

    Nutrition

    Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 315mg | Potassium: 106mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 28g | Vitamin A: 191IU | Calcium: 90mg | Iron: 1mg
    First Published: February 21, 2018... Last Updated: December 5, 2021
     
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    About GG

    Gwynn Galvin, known to many as GG, is the creative and talented chef and nutritionist behind Swirls of Flavor. Gwynn is an award-winning culinary professional with over twenty five years of recipe development, food styling, test kitchen management and culinary innovation experience. Gwynn's passion is gathering people around the table with her simple real food recipes to savor the moments together.

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    Comments

    1. Jamie Lott

      February 09, 2018 at 10:28 am

      Red velvet and doughnuts! Two of my favs!

    2. debi at Life Currents

      February 09, 2018 at 1:06 pm

      Such lovely donuts! I know these will make my family happy! And, the Cookies for Kid's Cancer is sure to make kids happy as well!

    3. GG

      February 09, 2018 at 9:02 pm

      I agree Jamie! Put the two together and I'm in heaven!

    4. GG

      February 09, 2018 at 9:04 pm

      Thanks Debi! I hope your kids love them and yes, Cookies For Kids Cancer is such a good organization helping kids!

    5. Sonja

      February 14, 2018 at 12:36 pm

      These red velvet donuts are so beautiful and perfect for a day like today. So nice to have *met* you through this group effort!

    6. GG

      February 15, 2018 at 10:28 am

      Thank you Sonja! Nice to "meet" you too! Thanks for stopping by!

    7. MomOfSmoothie

      December 08, 2020 at 8:35 am

      So beautiful!

    8. GG

      December 08, 2020 at 9:45 am

      Thank you so much for your kind words!

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