Baked Donuts

1/2 cup butter softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 1/2  cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Cream Butter and sugar.  Once creamed add eggs and mix until incorporated.  Add milk and mix until incorporated.  In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients add to wet mixture.  Bake in donut pans that have been greased and floured at 400 degrees for about 8-10 minutes.  Cool on a rack and glaze when cool.

For glaze I did a couple of them.  For the strawberry glaze I used 1 cup powdered sugar a couple tablespoons of strawberry juice that I had from leftover strawberry shortcake and about a teaspoon of caro syrup (this makes them shiny and hardens the glaze).  Add the wet ingredients slowly until you get the consistency you want.  I dipped my donuts in the glaze then set on a rack to drip.

For the Cherry glaze I did the same as above but used Marichino Cherry Juice instead of the strawberry juice.  You could do lemon, lime, really any flavor you want!  For the chocolate donuts I just used chocolate frosting from a can!  I put some in a bowl and microwaved it until it was liquid then just dipped the donuts in like I did for the other glazes.  Hope this all makes sense!

Syndy