Baked Apple Cider Donuts
4
Points®
Total time: 30 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 15 min • Serves: 12 • Difficulty: Easy
These donuts taste like the seasonal treats you love, but they’re baked instead of fried. Made with whole-wheat pastry flour, they boast whole-grain goodness and less sugar than most recipes you’ll find. And they’re packed with apple flavour, from both fresh apple cider and unsweetened applesauce.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Whole wheat pastry flour
2 cup(s)
Sugar
7 tbsp(s), divided
Ground cinnamon
1½ tsp(s), divided
Baking powder
1 tsp(s)
Table salt
¼ tsp(s)
Unsweetened applesauce
1 cup(s)
Apple cider
½ cup(s)
Vanilla extract
1 tsp(s)
Raw egg
1 large, lightly beaten
Salted butter
1 tbsp(s)
Instructions
1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly coat 2 (6-slot) silicone donut pans (¼-cup capacity each) with nonstick spray.
2
In a medium bowl, combine flour, ¼ cup sugar, ¾ teaspoon cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together applesauce, cider, vanilla, and egg. Add applesauce mixture to flour mixture; stir until well combined. Scrape batter into a large zip-top plastic bag. Snip a hole in 1 bottom corner of bag; pipe batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake at 350°F until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool in pans 2 minutes; remove donuts from pans.
3
In a small bowl, combine remaining 3 tbsp sugar and remaining ¾ tsp cinnamon. Lightly brush tops of donuts with butter; dip each donut, butter side down, into bowl of cinnamon sugar to coat.
4
Serving size: 1 donut
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