Lavender Chocolate Donuts

It's that time again, it's the third bake of the month. We are full steam ahead with the floral bakes and I decided to go with Lavender again. I wanted to bake donuts so I went with a lavender chocolate donut with a ombre purple glaze. As I was decorating the donuts they kind of went towards a unicorn design.

Lavender Chocolate Donuts

Lavender Chocolate Donuts

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 tablespoons melted butter ( cooled to room temperature)
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2/3 cup buttermilk (if you don't have it 2/3 cup milk + 1 teaspoon of vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon ground lavender

Honey glaze

• 2 cups powdered sugar
• gel food coloring
• 3-4 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon honey

Preheat oven to 350F

First sift together your cocoa powder, flour, salt, baking soda, lavender and set aside.

look at that ground lavender

In a mixing bowl place your sugar, brown sugar, melted butter, vanilla, and egg together

Add in your butter milk (milk+ 1 tablespoon of vinegar)

whisk together all of your wet ingredients and add your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients

Place your doughnut batter into a piping bag or a ziploc bag with a corner cut off and fill your doughnut pan. (make sure you spray your pan, you don't want these to stick)

Bake your doughnuts at 350F for 8-10 minutes, until you can stick a toothpick in them and it comes out clean. (if you lightly touch the doughnut it should spring back)

I like to leave my doughnuts in the tray for about 5- 10 minutes

Then take them out and let them cool on a wire rack until they are cooled completely ( you don't want to glaze hot doughnuts, the glaze will just run off)

 To make the glaze it's simple

Place two cups of powdered sugar in a bowl add in honey

Add 3-4 tablespoons of milk and stir ( only add a tablespoon at a time and stir, check your consistency as you go) you don't want your glaze to be too runny or too thick. If it's too thick add more milk, if it's too thin you will need to add more powdered sugar.

Start by dipping your donut in just the glaze, then add a drop of food coloring and dip them, gradually adding more food coloring in to darken the color of the glaze. This will achieve the ombre effect in color.

Dip each doughnut in the glaze to cover each doughnut, (here's a tip keep parchment or something under your cooling rack to catch those drips, I didn't do that and had a mess to clean up afterwards) I also added a few white sprinkles, some white food color splatter, and I dusted a little edible silver dust on them. Let the glaze set before eating or touching these ( about 5 or so minutes) I really like how each doughnut is different. I love how the colors turned out.