Baked Strawberry Donuts made with real strawberries, then dunked in chocolate ganache, and covered in sprinkles. Valentine or Anytime, perfect!

Baked Chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts.  I mean, do I have your attention now?  I don’t know about you, but I have never met a chocolate covered strawberry I didn’t like. Whenever I make them, I can’t keep my kids away from them long enough to fill the plate up for whatever function I am taking them to.  

I imagined those favorite little chocolate covered berries into these gorgeous donuts.   It all started with one of my favorite cakes in the whole world!  This Strawberry Cake.  I got the recipe from my friend, Candi, who blogs over at at The Devilish Dish.  Her Grandmother Mary made this cake every Sunday for Sunday supper at her house when Candi was growing up.   I made it a couple of years ago for Easter, and I have made it countless times since then.

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It’s such a beautiful cake, and it’s seriously delicious.  The cake starts with a box mix, you add in frozen strawberries and strawberry Jell-O.  It’s frosted with strawberry frosting made also with frozen strawberries.  It packs some serious strawberry punch, and looks so pretty dressed up for Valentine’s Day, don’t you think?

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Even before Christmas, I start thinking about Valentine’s Day.  One because Christmas is complete chaos and Valentine’s Day is my favorite!!  I have lots of ideas for Valentine’s Day Recipes, we will see how many of them get made in time.  This one though, I had to make them first!  I am SO GLAD that I did!! 

Ingredients for chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts:

• white cake mix
• eggs
• Strawberry Jell-O 
• Frozen Strawberries
• oil, water
• chocolate chips
• cream
• sprinkles

And of course you need a donut pan!  If you don’t have one yet, I ordered mine on Amazon.  It’s a Wilton brand, and I was so happy with it, I got a second one.  annnnnnnnd I got mini ones, too.  Because a girl can never have too many baking pans, can we?

Donut pan?  You may be thinking, “How often would I even use a donut pan??” Well, let me show you all of the other baked donuts you can make with it! It’s money well spent!!

These banana donuts are easy to make, baked in the oven, not fried, and are dusted with spiced sugar and served warm.

Moist baked pumpkin donuts, dunked in a spiced glaze.

Double Chocolate Baked Donuts – Rich chocolate cake donuts dunked in a delicious chocolate glaze. You are going to need a big glass of milk!

These fluffy lemon cake donuts, are baked to perfection, then dunked in a slightly tart lemon glaze. They are capable of making even the dreariest of mornings bright!

Baked glazed cherry limeade donuts reminiscent of that age old drink, the Cherry Limeade!

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After the strawberry donuts are baked up, cool them slightly, and then dunk them in my Chocolate Ganache.  Chocolate ganache is one of those words that just makes my tummy happy! I could eat this stuff with a SPOON.  It’s what makes my Chocolate Ganache Brownies a family (and reader!) favorite!

Chocolate Ganache Brownies – Did you ever want to be the BEST brownie maker you could be?  Make these.  These fudgy brownies are topped with homemade chocolate ganache that will have you over the moon.

Before the ganache sets up, add some festive sprinkles!  Leave the donuts in a cool place to set.  If it’s particularly warm in your kitchen, pop them in the fridge.  

Look at those strawberries in there!  So delicious!

Which one do you want?

Valentine’s Day is coming!! Bake some chocolate covered strawberry donuts f or your sweetheart! 

Yield: 2 dozen

Baked Chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts

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Baked Strawberry Donuts made with real strawberries, then dunked in chocolate ganache, and covered in sprinkles. Valentine or Anytime, perfect!

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 13 minutes

Additional Time 10 minutes

Total Time 33 minutes

Ingredients

• For the Donuts:
• 1 white cake mix
• 4 heaping Tablespoons flour
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 (3 ounce) package Strawberry Jell-O
• 1 (10 ounce) container frozen strawberries, thawed and drained About 1/2 cup
• For the Chocolate Ganache:
• 1 (12 ounce package) semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1 Tablespoon rum or strong coffee
• Sprinkles

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray donuts baking pans with non-stick cooking spray.
2. In your mixer combine all of the donut ingredients, except the strawberries, for 2 minutes.
3. Mix in strawberries. Fill donut pans just below the edge.
4. Bake for 13 minutes. Remove to a cooling rack.
5. In a sauce pan, melt chocolate chip and cream for your ganache. When it's melty and smooth, remove from heat and whisk in rum or coffee until it's shiny.
6. Dunk donuts in to ganache, and dust with sprinkles. Let the chocolate set in a cool place.
7. ENJOY!!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

24

Serving Size:

1 donut
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 97Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 26mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 0gSugar: 3gProtein: 1g

Nutrition isn't always accurate.

If you make this recipe, I’d love to know! Snap a picture, share the photo on social media with the hashtag #AnAffairFromTheHeart – I’d love to see what you made! – Michaela