Welcome to nerd month here on the blog! For the month of May, instead of doing our usual once-a-week themed recipe series, every single recipe this month is inspired by a favorite film, book, or television show! Basically, it’s an excuse to write about and try to convince you to watch/read all of my favorites through food. And I’m so excited for it. I’ve already photographed a bunch of them, and I think May is going to be a lot of fun (for me at least 😉 ). We are starting with a show that just happens to be returning to television for its fifth and final season tomorrow, Person of Interest. Person of Interest is such an entertaining show. If you follow me on Twitter, or read my Weekend Posts, you’ll know that I spend 90 percent of my waking hours trying to convince people to watch it. It’s a genuinely great procedural for people who like crime dramas, but it’s also a pretty delightful romance, a fascinating critique of the modern surveillance state, and secretly, the best hard core sci-fi on television right now (no seriously, the main plot of the show deals with dueling A.I. gods!!). Most importantly though, there is a dog named Bear. Bear speaks dutch, is scuba certified, and is basically the greatest character on this or any other show on television. And Bear likes strawberry doughnuts. His co-owner and the show’s co-lead, Mr. Finch has a penchant for sencha green tea. So today, we’re making, Strawberry Glazed Sencha Green Tea Doughnuts. These are some darn good doughnuts, but before we start, I have to say: baked doughnuts are not bakery doughnuts! They are glorified muffins and I think it’s a disservice to everyone involved to pretend otherwise. BUT, holy cow, these glorified muffins might actually give cake doughnuts a run for their money.
They are dense and soft, none of that light and airy nonsense. When you pick one of them up, there’s some heft to it. Green-tea-infused butter in the batter gives the doughnuts a gentle, fresh taste that goes so well with the strawberry glaze. And that glaze, it’s made with three ingredients: fresh strawberries and two types of sugar, but IT SETS, as doughnut frosting is meant to set. Sticky, syrups glazes have their place, but it is not on my sencha green tea doughnuts! Top the doughnuts off with a heavy coating of rainbow sprinkles and you have a perfect easy breakfast for your guard dog. <3 *No doughnuts were licked in the taking of this photograph. If you don’t have a doughnut pan, this is the one I own and I love it (that’s an affiliate link), but you can also make them as muffins. See the notes section of the recipe for cooking times. Nutritional Information Doughnuts Adapted From: King Arthur Flour Strawberry Glaze Adapted From: A Happy Food Dance
If you make these, I would love to see them! Tag me @bakingmischief on Twitter or #bakingmischief on Instagram!
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