coconut avocado cream + berries: doughnut sandwich edition

"Creme de Abacate", or avocado cream is a dessert like side dish which is unique and very popular to Brazilian cuisine. It is used widely as the basis of many desserts and dishes in Brazilian cuisine like tarts, cakes, and smoothies. There are a few variations of avocado cream, some are made with sweetened condensed milk and others are made with sugar and lime juice. 

Coconut Milk!

We've all seen the doughnut burgers. Doughnuts serve as the buns and hamburger patties are stuffed in between, topped with tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and all of the other normal burger toppings. It's strange, but it served as my inspiration for this creation.

Avocado cream is generally topped with berries, nuts or coconut. I decided to go with raspberries, blueberries and sweetened coconut shreds to add to the texture and flavor of my doughnut dessert sandwich. I added flavor to the glaze with lime juice and coconut milk. The flavor profile of this doughnut is all over the place, but it turned out to be delicious!

This doughnut uses the brioche doughnut recipe.


for the glaze:

1/2 cup coconut milk

2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp lime juice
1 tsp coconut flavoring
zest of one lime


Whisk all of the ingredients together until smooth. Dip your fried doughnuts into the glaze and let them crust over before using.

for the filling:
One avocado (ripe and soft)
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tsp coconut milk
2 tsp lime juice

Combine all ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend until the consistency is smooth. 

for the assembly:
1 1/2 cups blueberries
1 1/2 cups raspberries
1 1/2 cups coconut

Fill the hole of your doughnut with a raspberry to prevent the cream from falling through. Top with a layer of cream, then blueberries, then coconut, a few raspberries and repeat. Fill as much or as high as you'd like, but I'd recommend two tablespoons of filling per layer. Once finished with the filling, top it with another glazed doughnut. Fill the hole with another raspberry and sprinkle the top with coconut and blueberries. You can sprinkle a bit of lime zest on top if you'd prefer a bit more citrus flavor. This will yield 6 doughnut sandwiches due to the fact that you use two doughnuts per sandwich.

Here's a printable version of this recipe!

There you have it! 'Til next time,