These baked apple cider donuts are quick and easy, fluffy and loaded with spicy apple cider flavor! Made with 6 ingredients in 30 minutes. Low calorie, no dairy and with applesauce instead of oil. So sweet and spicy, these fall donuts will easily be your favorite fall donuts ever.
1teaspoonapple pie spiceor add 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and ¼ teaspoon each of cardamom, nutmeg and ginger
pinchof salt
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
½cupcane sugar
2tablespooncinnamon
Instructions
Prep
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Grease a 6-well donut pan or cupcake pan.
Make Donuts
In a medium bowl, mix up dry ingredients.
1 ¾ cup oat flour, 2 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon apple pie spice, pinch of salt, ½ cup cane sugar
In a larger bowl, stir up wet ingredients and sugar. Mix with a hand mixer or spoon until just combined.
½ cup fresh apple cider, ½ cups pumpkin puree, 1 teaspoon vanilla
Pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture and use a hand mixer to blend smooth.
Pipe or use a spoon to fill the wells to the top.
Bake for 12 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
Cool pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
Make Cinnamon Sugar Coating
Stir together the sugar cinnamon mix. Spray donuts with oil spray, dip both sides and spoon mix over to coat whole donuts.
½ cup cane sugar, 2 tablespoon cinnamon
To Make as Muffins
To make these donuts without a donut pan, use a muffin pan lined with paper. I fill wells about half way, and dip into the cinnamon sugar mixture once done. Bake muffins at 350 F for 15 minutes.
Store
Baked apple cider donuts can be stored in an air-tight container for 2 days and then refrigerated for a week and microwaved for 15 seconds to warm them up. Apple cider donuts can be frozen for a month. Recoat them with cinnamon sugar once thawed.
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Notes
To make these donuts without a donut pan, use a muffin pan lined with paper. Bake muffins at 350 F for 15 minutes.Baked apple cider donuts can be stored in an air-tight container for 2 days and then refrigerated for a week and microwaved for 15 seconds to warm them up.