Orange Glazed Donuts

Instead of the usual colomba or the pastiera, what do you think if we revolutionize the dessert to be served on Easter day? So I thought of small sugar glazed donuts! Maybe to be filled with chocolate eggs, just so we don't miss anything!

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Identity Card of the Recipe

• 299 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  Ingredients for 6 donuts

  • 100 g of white flour of type 00
  • 50 g of butter
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 120 g (2 medium) of eggs
  • Half a teaspoon of baking powder
  • 50 ml of juice and peel of untreated oranges
  • 60 g of sugar
  • 50 g of frumina

  For the icing

  • 100 g of powdered sugar
  • 20 ml of orange juice or water

  Materials Needed

  • Bowl
  • Electric whips
  • Juicer
  • Lemon grater or row
  • Sieve
  • 6 donuts silicone mold
  • Bowls of various sizes
  • Scale weighs food
  • Ladle with spout

  Preparation

  1. In a bowl, sift the white flour, baking powder and frumina. Mix the powders by adding the sugar.
  2. Flavor with the grated zest of an organic orange (previously washed).
  3. Gently melt the butter in the microwave or in a saucepan. Pour the melted butter into the center of the dry ingredients.
  4. Squeeze the orange and pour 50ml of juice into the bowl.
  5. Shell the eggs and divide the yolks from the whites. Add the egg yolks to the remaining ingredients and mix until a compact mixture is obtained.
  6. Whip the egg whites until stiff, adding a pinch of salt to facilitate the whipping.
  7. Add the egg whites until stiff to the prepared mixture, taking care to always mix from top to bottom to avoid letting the mixture collapse.
  8. Place the silicone molds on a baking sheet. Distribute the cream obtained in the molds, filling them up to 2/3 of the height.
  9. Place in the oven immediately at 180 ° C and bake for about 15-20 minutes.
  10. Remove the donuts from the molds and allow to cool completely.
  11. Prepare the icing by mixing the icing sugar with one or two tablespoons of orange juice: the consistency must be semi-liquid.
  12. Place the fluffy donuts on a wire rack and pour the glaze, letting it drip.

  The right idea
  For a better presentation, you can grate more orange zest directly on top of the glaze and serve the donuts with chocolate eggs.

  13. Allow the glaze to solidify and serve.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  These donuts are cute, do you think too? Then, if you don't really like the idea of ​​glazing them with sugar, you can replace this glaze with melted, white or dark chocolate!

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  The Orange Glazed Donuts are a sweet food with a high caloric value. They mainly provide carbohydrates, while the protein fraction is less significant; the lipids are considerable and have a prevalence of the saturated type. Cholesterol is well present, while the fiber does not excel. . It is a dessert NOT suitable for feeding diabetic, hypercholesterolemic, hypertriglyceridemic and obese people. The average portion of Orange Glazed Donuts is about 30-40g (90-120kcal).