Strawberry Jam Heart Doughnuts
A delicious doughnut can put a smile on anyone’s face, especially when they’re bursting with strawberry-flavoured goodness.
Ingredients
- Pre-made brioche doughnut dough (recipe below)
- 1 cup castor sugar
- ⅓ cup ground freeze-dried berries
- Strawberry jam
- 1 liter canola oil for frying
For the doughnuts:
- 19g active dry yeast
- 200ml soy milk
- 40g white sugar
- 1½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 200g bread flour
- 200g all-purpose flour
- 1 “vegan egg” (ingredients below)
- 100g vegan butter or cubed coconut oil
- Castro sugar for dusting
For the vegan egg:
- 1 tsp tapioca or cornstarch
- ⅛ tsp xanthan gum
- 1½ tsp ice-cold water
- 2 tsp nutritional yeast
Method
- Heat the plant milk until lukewarm and then add the active yeast, and leave to bubble for a few
minutes. - Sift together the flour, sugar, vegan egg, vanilla seeds, and salt together.
- Gradually pour in the bubbly plant milk mix and then once they are mixed gradually add bits
of the vegan butter while kneading or using a bread attachment kneading slowly until
homogenized. - Place in a bowl, cover with cling wrap and leave to rise for 30-60 minutes until double in
size. - Once risen, wrap up in cling wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- The next morning, divide the dough and save the rest to make cinnamon knots, or roll the
dough out 1 1⁄2 cm on a floured surface and press out round shapes or hearts with a cookie
cutter. - Place the doughnuts on a floured baking tray, leave to rise until doubled and then once risen.
- Heat up the canola or any other flavourless oil, add the doughnuts once the oil is heated to frying
temperature and fry the doughnuts for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown. - Once brown on both sides, scoop out with a slotted spoon, on some paper towels to drain.
- Once cooled, roll the doughnuts in the pink castor sugar, make a hole at the top of the doughnut
with a sharp knife or straw or the tip of the pastry nozzle, and fill with the strawberry jam.
Serve and enjoy!
