Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free
These soft and fluffy vanilla cake donuts are easy to make and topped with a pillowy chocolate frosting. Your family will love this healthier baked version of a favorite breakfast treat!
Why I Love This Recipe
So, join me and say so long to thaw time for expensive, frozen store bought allergy friendly donuts!! These fresh baked vanilla donuts are simple to make and the batter comes together quickly. They also store really well, so your family can enjoy them all week with no freezing necessary!
The donut itself is tender, full of vanilla flavor and slightly sweet. Then, this vanilla cake donut is topped with a luscious and creamy chocolate frosting. Unlike some store bought donuts that are so sweet my stomach hurts after eating them, these donuts have the perfect amount sweetness without being overly so.
Baked Gluten Free Vanilla Donuts With Chocolate Frosting are definitely are a crowd pleaser. Even my friends without gluten allergies love them!
This recipe a healthier baked instead of fried donut replaces traditional cocoa powder with with more nutrient dense, less processed cacao powder. Cacao is considered a super food and boasts high levels of antioxidants, iron, magnesium, and calcium. So you'll feel great serving these to your whole family!
Cooking Tips
If you don't have arrowroot starch on hand you can replace with potato, tapioca, or corn starch.
This recipe calls for more of a sweet, creamy milk chocolate frosting. But, if you prefer more bitter sweet dark chocolate icing skip the butter and use 4 tablespoon almond milk instead.
These Gluten Free Vanilla Donuts With Chocolate Frosting can be stored in an air tight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. Or in the refrigerator for 7 days. Store away from windows if it's hot were you live, otherwise the direct sunlight could cause the frosting to melt.
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📖 Recipe
Gluten Free Vanilla Donuts With Chocolate Frosting {Dairy Free}
Equipment
- 2 donut pans
- 1 large mixing bowl
- 2 Medium mixing bowls
- 1 Whisk
- 1 fork
- measuring cups and spoons
- 1 small piping bag or spoon
- 1 large piping bag or large spoon/small measuring cup
- 1 butter spreader or butter knife
- wire racks
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1½ cup almond flour
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- ½ cup arrowroot starch
- 1¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white sugar
Wet Ingredients
- 3 large eggs
- 3 tablespoon neutral oil*
- ¾ cup almond milk
- 2 tablespoon pure vanilla or vanilla paste
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Chocolate Frosting
- 1½ cup powdered sugar sifted
- ¼ cup cacao powder or cocoa powder sifted
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tsp pure vanilla
- 2-3½ tablespoon almond milk or preferred milk
- 2 tablespoon dairy free butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉. Grease donut pans with extra neutral oil.
- In a medium bowl use a whisk to combine dry ingredients: almond flour, brown rice flour, arrowroot starch, baking soda, salt, sugar.
- In a large bowl use a whisk to combine wet ingredients: eggs, neutral oil, almond milk, pure vanilla, and lemon juice.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredient bowl. Use whisk to combine fully until smooth.
- Add batter to large piping bag or use a large spoon to fill donut pans a little over ⅔ full. Place in preheated oven and bake 15 minutes until toothpick inserted in donut comes out clean or with a few crumbs.
- Remove from oven and let cool in pans until cool enough to touch about 10 minutes. Carefully remove donuts from pans and place on cooling racks until completely cool about 10 more minutes.
- While donuts cook, make the frosting. In a medium mixing bowl, sift powdered sugar and cacao powder. Add a pinch of salt. Add 2 teaspoon pure vanilla. Add 2 tablespoon of almond milk (save the other 2 for now). Mix together with a whisk or fork.
- Add melted butter and continue to mix together with whisk or fork. Add remaining almond milk ½ tablespoon at a time. You don't need to add all the almond milk, stop when when the frosting is a thick creamy consistency. Add to a small piping bag or use a spoon to frost the donuts.
- Using a piping bag or a spoon to divide the frosting evenly among each donut. Use a butter knife or butter spreader to smooth the frosting over the donuts. Top with sprinkles or chopped nuts and serve at room temperature.
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