I’m excited to share this recipe today, because it’s completely my own—and that wasn’t originally going to be the case. You see, I’d planned to make doughnuts following a recipe I’d cut out of Vegetarian Times a few months ago. However, when I tried their recipe, the results were, ummm, less than stellar. (Understatement!) Sorry VT, but your recipe was a complete failure!
If you’re curious, here’s a photo of my ugly doughnuts.
After that, not willing to give my trust to anyone else, I jotted down my own recipe, keeping in mind the reasons I suspected VT‘s didn’t work (too much fat and too much liquid being my main guesses). I’m happy to say my recipe came out perfectly!
So soft and cake-like… yet they are much healthier than traditional doughnuts!
Cake-Batter Doughnuts
Loosely based off a recipe from Vegetarian Times
- 1 level cup flour (see note below, for what type)
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1/3 cup plus 1Â tbsp evaporated cane juice or sugar (or Sucanat)
- 1/2 tsp apple-cider vinegar
- 1 and 1/2 tsp ener-g egg replacer OR 1 tbsp flaxmeal
- 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp pre-melted butter-type spread (such as Earth Balance)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Optional: sprinkles! Or cinnamon, raisins, peanuts, chocolate chips… be creative!
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flax or ener-g with all wet ingredients except vinegar. In a separate bowl, combine remaining dry ingredients. Then add the vinegar to the wet, and immediately pour wet onto dry. Mix (but don’t overmix), pour into doughnut pans, and cook for 12 minutes.
Flour Notes: I used white-whole-wheat. You can use all-purpose or Bob’s gluten-free or spelt flour. Whole wheat pastry can be used, but the doughnuts will be a tad more dense.
View Cake Batter Donuts Nutrition Facts
If you don’t have a doughnut pan, the above link also lists ideas for how you can still make these! And it includes some un-edited photos. I thought I’d include them so you can see what the doughnuts look like in a non-photoshoot format.
Tomorrow: Frosting Recipes!
If you can’t wait til then, try my Vanilla-Fudge Frosting.
Or sprinkle on cinnamon-sugar or powdered sugar while the doughnuts are still warm.
I’m glad you don’t need a doughnut pan and that I can still make these 🙂 The flavor combinations are endless, so excited!
These are the most adorable, most delicious looking donuts EVER!!!! Will you please move to Colorado and open up a bakery? Pretty, pretty please? (With an ice cream cone and sugar on top… I mean with, um, a healthy donut and sprinkles on top 😉 )
And I made your saag!!! It was spot on AMAZING!! Of course, that’s no surprise, seeing as it’s one of your awesome recipes 😀
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Oh my gosh, yay yay yay! I will come open a bakery if I can live at your house and you can cook for me, since I don’t like to cook (I like to create recipes, but not actually cook them lol… I am lazy!).
THESE LOOK SO GREAT Katie!! I love it:) Thanks for the recipe; and I might just have to make them now in a mini muffin pan!
The donuts look wonderful..and can’t wait for frosting. That’s where it’s at for me…lol 🙂
Just clicked and saw the other post..I love seeing food in all it’s un-glory, too. The before and afters. As a budding photographer, that’s just as interesting to me as the recipe and finished product….seeing HOW it got there!
these look good, just wondering is it 6 mini donuts at 55 calories each or 18 mini donuts at 55 calories each? or is it the same either way?
LOL for the 18… I have a regular doughnut pan, but the Vegetarian Times recipes all call for an 18 doughnut pan, so I figured that might be the one most people have.
I am seriously SPEECHLESS over these doughnuts! I cannot WAIT to try this weekend!
HOLY COW! You are my favorite, these look sooo good!!!!!
I just started reading your blog and am absolutely in love with it! It’s dangerous to venture on because I’m probably going to be spending more time looking at your recipes than hitting the books…
I can’t wait to try these out once I get out of my dorm! haha
LOL maybe your professors will go easy on you and your lack of studying if you give a peace offering of doughnuts or chocolate? 😉
SOOOO pretty! I have donut pan that I got for Christmas (at my request). My goal is to make blueberry bagels, a favorite of mine before going GF. I also have my eyes on the Babycakes donut recipe, from their new cookbook :). These look delish!
VEGirl
Yum yum yum!!! I am so excited to make these! I would love to make powdered sugar donuts too!