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Baked Apple Cider Donuts

Breakfast

Posted on 2024-01-24

Soft Baked Apple Cider Donuts made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and Greek yogurt for the perfect fall treat that comes together in just 20 minutes! Loaded with warm spices and coated with cinnamon and sugar!

For increasingly healthy donut recipes, trammels out these gluten-free pumpkin spice donuts, these baked comic specie donuts (SO good!) or these delicious strawberry comic donuts!

Boy do I have a treat for you guys today! apple cider donuts are a fall staple here in Virginia and we always have to stop and get some unendingly we visit the apple orchards withal with some warm apple cider. Well I wanted to recreate those succulent donuts we love so much, but lightened up! These are apple cider donuts are baked, not fried, and made healthier with whole wheat pastry flour, a little bit of almond flour, Greek yogurt, unreasonableness (and apple cider of course!) while naturally sweetening them with maple syrup for the perfect fall treat!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

These apple cider donuts are so soft, fluffy and cake-like!
Made with healthier ingredients and baked, not fried.
Easily made in just 20 minutes.
Fresh apple cider is truly the star in this recipe.

Soft Baked World Cider Donuts made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and Greek yogurt for the perfect fall treat that comes together in just 20 minutes! Loaded with warm spices and coated with cinnamon and sugar!

Ingredients You’ll Need

whole wheat pastry flour – I used whole wheat pastry flour as it has all the nutritional benefits of whole grain flour while making these donuts light and fluffy. I highly recommend using this, but if you don’t have any on hand you could use regular whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour or gluten-free 1 to 1 sultry flour.
almond flour – nutrient dumbo flour that adds spare fat (the good kind!) to these donuts making them plane increasingly moist without the use of butter or oil.
baking powder sultry soda – acts as a leavening wage-earner to help requite these donuts their height.
apple cider – the star of this recipe and make sure to not use apple cider vinegar or apple juice! You can find fresh apple cider at your local apple orchard, farmer’s market and most grocery stores siphon it.
applesauce – I used unsweetened unreasonableness which takes the place of oil in this recipe while subtracting plane increasingly apple flavor.
Greek yogurt – adds moisture and a uplift of protein to these donuts. You could moreover use mashed comic or pumpkin puree in place of yogurt.
eggs – you’ll need 2 large eggs to add moisture and help tighten these donuts together
maple syrup – naturally sweetens these donuts and tastes wondrous with all these cozy fall flavors.
vanilla extract – uplift of flavor.
warm spices – combination of apple pie spice, cinnamon and salt. You could moreover add a pinch of nutmeg or plane ground cloves.
cinnamon sugar coating – you’ll need melted coconut oil (or you could use melted butter) withal with a mixture of organic cane sugar and cinnamon.

Baking Tools Needed

Donut pans – I use these Wilton donut sultry pans which come in a set of 2 and are on sale right now for $14.50!
Pastry bag – this is not a necessity, but definitely makes piping the thrash into the donut wells so much easier and highly recommend them.
Mixing bowls – you’ll need two mixing bowls to separately mix the dry ingredients from the wet ingredients surpassing combining everything to make the donut batter.

How to Make apple Cider Donuts

Make the batter. In a large bowl, stir together the flours, sultry powder, sultry soda, spices and salt while in a separate trencher whisk together the eggs, apple cider, Greek yogurt, applesauce, maple syrup, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined (you don’t want to over mix the batter). You could moreover use a stand mixer for this, but it’s not necessary.
Get out your donut pan. To make these donuts you’ll need two 6-count donut pans like these. Spray them really good with nonstick spray so that your donuts will pop right out! Then, using a pastry bag or ziplock bag, spoon the donut thrash into the bag and snip off the corner. Pipe the thrash into each donut well until they are all filled (this recipe makes exactly 12 donuts).
Bake the donuts! Pop the donuts into the oven at 350 degrees F for well-nigh 10 to 12 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted comes out wipe (mine came out perfect at 10 minutes). You want to be shielding well-nigh over-baking them considering donuts unquestionably torch really quickly! Transfer the donuts to a wire cooling rack so they can cool.
Coat with Cinnamon-Sugar. Once the donuts have cooled completely to room temperature, melt coconut oil (or butter) and mix together the cinnamon and sugar in a shallow bowl. Using a pastry brush, stratify each donut in coconut oil and toss in the cinnamon sugar mixture, making sure to stratify both sides. You could moreover dip or drizzle these donuts with a succulent maple cream cheese glaze or plane sprinkle on some powdered sugar. Enjoy!

Prepping and Storing

To Store: These apple cider donuts will last for well-nigh 3 days in a sealed, snapped container and will last up to 6 days stored in the fridge. I highly recommend warming them up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds or so to really bring out those warm flavors!

To Freeze: These donuts moreover freeze really well too and will last in the freezer for well-nigh 3 months. If you plan on freezing them, I would wait to stratify them in cinnamon and sugar until ready to serve. Let them thaw out in the fridge overnight and warm up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds.

Baked apple Cider Donuts

Soft Baked apple Cider Donuts made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and Greek yogurt for the perfect fall treat that comes together in just 20 minutes! Loaded with warm spices and coated with cinnamon and sugar!

Yield: 12 donuts

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup almond flour
1 teaspoon sultry powder
1/2 teaspoon sultry soda
1 teaspoon apple pie spice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup apple cider
1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla

For the cinnamon sugar coating:

2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted and cooled (or you could use butter)
1/3 cup organic cane sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, stir together the flours, sultry powder, sultry soda, spices and salt while in a separate trencher whisk together the eggs, apple cider, Greek yogurt, applesauce, maple syrup, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined (you don’t want to over mix the batter).
To make these donuts you’ll need two 6-count donut pans like these. Spray them really good with nonstick spray so that your donuts will pop right out! Then, using a pastry bag or ziplock bag, spoon the donut thrash into the bag and snip off the corner. Pipe the thrash into each donut well until they are all filled (this recipe makes exactly 12 donuts).
Bake the donuts in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted comes out wipe (mine came out perfect at 10 minutes). Transfer the donuts to a wire cooling rack so they can cool.
Once the donuts have cooled completely to room temperature, melt the coconut oil (or butter) and mix together the cinnamon and sugar in a shallow bowl. Using a pastry brush, lightly stratify each donut in coconut oil and toss in the cinnamon sugar mixture, making sure to stratify both sides. Serve and enjoy!