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Orange Unicorn Doughnuts

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Servings 9 each

Ingredients
  

doughnut

  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar I used Dixie Crystals
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup milk plus 2 tablespoons
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
  • 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (I used Melissa's Cara Cara oranges)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract

Orange Glaze

  • 1 cup powdered sugar (I use Dixie Crystals)
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (I used Melissa's Cara Cara oranges)
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest
  • sprinkles (I used Sweets & Treats)

Instructions
 

doughnuts

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix together, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, egg, orange juice, and vanilla.
  • Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, Spoon batter into prepared donut baking tray, filing each shape from 1/2 to 3/4 full. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until doughnuts spring back when lightly pressed. Cool in pan 3 to 4 minutes before removing doughnuts. Prepare glaze while doughnuts cool in pan.

glaze

  • Whisk together powdered sugar, milk, orange juice, zest.
  • Dip top of doughnut in glaze. Return to rack and sprinkle with sprinkles.