Baked Cinnamon Donuts

Cinnamon Donuts get a healthy makeover with this Vegan Baked Cinnamon Donuts Recipe. Forget worrying about rolling the donuts in sugar either - these ones have the cinnamon sugar topping baked right into the donut! Vegan, gluten free, low fat, low sugar and totally healthy.

Ingredients

• 2 cup flour see below for options
• 2 tbsp ground flax (I grind mine from whole flax in my magic bullet)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4-1/2 cup cane sugar/brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 cup unsweetened almond breeze (i've used both almond milk and cows milk)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Cinnamon sugar mix:

• 2 tbsp sugar (cane/white/brown all work)
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/355°F.
2. Grease your donut pans and set aside.
3. In a large bowl combine flour, flaxseed, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.
4. In a medium bowl mix sugar, applesauce, milk and vanilla.
5. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until combined.
6. Pour your mixture into your donut pan, filling each donut until it's around 3/4 full.
7. Sprinkle over your cinnamon sugar mixture over the top of each donut.
8. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer removes clean and the edges have pulled in from the sides.

*Flour Options

Gluten Free Flour Options: Feel free to use any of the following combinations

1. 1 cup buckwheat flour + 1 cup gluten free plain flour
2. 1 cup gluten free oat flour + 1 cup gluten free plain flour
3. 2 cups gluten free plain flour

Gluten Flour Options: Feel free to use either of the following combinations

1. 2 cups plain flour
2. 1 cup wholewheat flour + 1 cup plain flour

*Sugar Options

1. Feel free to use sugar or maple syrup/honey. We used 1/4 cup as we don't like things too sweet - but for a sweeter flavour use up to 1/2 cup :)