Baked Chocolate Doughnuts with Peanut Butter Glaze

Ever since I bought my doughnut pan a few months ago, I have been toying with the idea of a chocolate doughnut with peanut butter glaze. The thing about baked doughnuts is that I desperately want them to be fried and unhealthy, but they're not. So in reality, baked doughnuts are more like muffins pretending to be doughnuts. And, in true Amber fashion, I took something that should have been healthy and made it unhealthy by adding a sugary glaze and chopped candy. So if you're looking for a low cal alternative to a doughnut - this is not it. But, the good news is, regardless of calories, it won't clog your arteries as fast as the fried version!

And seriously, if you want low cal or healthy, this probably isn't the blog for you!

Lemon Blueberry Baked Doughnuts with Vanilla Bean Glaze

If I had to decide between a muffin, a doughnut or a bagel for breakfast, hands down, it would be a doughnut. Krispy Kreme, Dunkin', Maple Glazed, I don't care who makes them, I love them. I finally got my doughnut pan on Friday and couldn't wait to jump into the world of baked doughnuts. I packed up the pan, some fresh picked blueberries and a bag of lemons and headed to New Jersey with a mission: Spend time with great friends, hit some sand and sun at the beach and bake some doughnuts.

My favorite doughnut has always been a blueberry cake doughnut with glaze. I love how they're slightly crisp on the outside from their bath in the fryer and a fresh coat of glaze. Yet they are moist, cakey and overloaded with sweet blueberries inside.

I knew that a baked doughnut would not have the same texture of a traditionally fried doughnut. Realistically, I was expecting them to be a doughnut shaped muffin. I found this to be somewhat true, though the doughnuts were a little more dense than a muffin.