These homemade cream filled donuts are made from scratch and filled with delicious strawberry and cream cheese filling!
This post is sponsored by California Strawberries
Is it donuts or doughnuts? Who cares because when you make these strawberry cream filled donuts, the last thing on your mind is what you want to call them. You just want to dive right in! Strawberries are a huge hit in my house and end up in my kid's lunch box almost every day. For the record, I'm going with donuts.
Why strawberries are healthy!
California strawberries are always fresh and almost every strawberry you see for sale in the country is grown in a California strawberry field by farmers and generations of families who take pride in what they do. With more vitamin C than an orange and high in fiber and antioxidants, you can see why I send my kids to school each day with a strawberry or two, and they just taste amazing!
Sometimes in the past, I've made baked donuts and they're still really good but there's definitely no comparison to a soft, yeast-risen fried donut. Making donuts at home is actually pretty easy, with time being the only thing you really have to be mindful of. With minimal ingredients and a whole host of fillings you could add, you might end up making a dozen on a slow weekend rather than running to the donut shop! Treat the dough gently and be careful with the hot oil and you should end up with a donut that would rival any large donut chain.
What's in these cream filled donuts?
For my cream filled donuts, I combined cream cheese and powdered sugar and then added some fresh strawberries that had been slowly simmered with sugar. Strawberries are naturally sweet but adding a little sugar and a sprinkle of water really helps to draw out the strawberry flavor making the most intense strawberry syrup.
And it's that strawberry syrup that makes the filling in these donuts so irresistible.
Once the donuts have cooled and you've given them a good roll in some sugar, you can use any kitchen tool to poke a hole in the side of each donut. Fill a piping bag with the strawberry cream and push the tip into the hole. A quick squeeze and you should have added enough filling.
How long will my strawberry donuts last?
I recommend keeping them for no longer than two days if they last that long and keeping them covered will maintain their softness.
