Baked Apple Cider Donuts
- Ready In:
- 34mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
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12 donuts
ingredients
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For the Donuts
- 1 cup apple cider
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons kosher salt
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For the Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons apple cider
- electric green gel paste food coloring, for tinting
- assorted sprinkles and disco dust for decorating doughnut
- chocolate licorice, to make stems
- sour apple, fruit strips to make leaves
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Lightly grease two 6-count donut pans and set aside.
- In a small saucepan over high heat, bring cider to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the vegetable oil, applesauce, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add the reduced cider and stir to combine.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the wet mixture and stir until just incorporated.
- Transfer batter to a disposable piping bag. Pipe batter into donut pans, filling each well nearly to the rim. Bake until a toothpick inserted into a donut comes out clean, 12-14 minutes. Allow doughnuts to cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl whisk together powdered sugar and apple cider. Tint to desired shade of green using gel paste food coloring (glaze should be the consistency of glue; thin with additional cider if necessary). Carefully dip the top of each doughnut into the glaze and decorate as desired with sprinkles, disco dust, a candy stem and candy leaves.
Reviews
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Who the heck knew you could bake donuts?! I LOVE apple cider donuts, but I really hate deep frying things (plus they're not very good the next day). These however, were delicious AND guilt free. Also, I didn't have apple cider so I used apple juice and it was still really good. The only bad thing is that they were so yummy, my husband, my mom and I ate all 12 before I could snap a picture :( Will be making these again for Halloween treats for my fam. Thanks for the easy to follow recipe, Ashley!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Ashley Holt
United States
Ashley is a professional baker and owner of Sugar Monster bakery in NYC. She's also the resident sugar specialist on GK Now, where she creates towering cakes and over-the-top desserts inspired by pop culture.