Baked cinnamon sugar donuts arranged on a plate with a cinnamon coating
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Cinnamon Sugar Baked Donuts

These taste exactly like the cinnamon sugar donuts from a donut shop, minus the deep fryer and minus the sugar. Baking them keeps the texture soft and cakey, closer to a donut hole than you'd expect from something baked in a pan.

Rolling them in the cinnamon coating while they're still warm is the move, the butter helps it stick to every side. These disappear fast whenever I make a batch.

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Cinnamon Sugar Baked Donuts

Soft baked cake donuts tossed in a cinnamon sweetener coating, all the flavor of the classic without the fryer or the added sugar.

Prep 10 min
Cook 11 min
Total 21 min
Yield 6 donuts

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup oat flour
  • 1/4 cup almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 3 tablespoons allulose or monk fruit sweetener
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter or coconut oil, for coating
  • 2 tablespoons allulose or monk fruit sweetener, for coating
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon, for coating

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F and grease a 6-cavity donut pan well.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together the oat flour, almond flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
  3. In another bowl, whisk the egg, applesauce, almond milk, sweetener, and vanilla until smooth.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir just until combined.
  5. Spoon the batter into the donut pan cavities, filling each about three-quarters full.
  6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the tops spring back when touched lightly.
  7. While the donuts bake, mix the cinnamon and sweetener for the coating together in a shallow bowl.
  8. Let the donuts cool in the pan for 3 minutes, then brush each one with melted butter on all sides and roll in the cinnamon sweetener mix.

Nutrition (approximate, per serving)

Calories85
Fat3g
Carbs11g
Fiber1g
Sugar1g
Protein3g

Estimated from the ingredients listed above; actual values will vary with brands and swaps.

Tips & swaps

  • Coat the donuts while they're still slightly warm, the butter helps the cinnamon sugar stick, once fully cooled it won't adhere as well.
  • A donut pan gives the classic shape, but this batter also works as 6 mini muffins with a shorter bake time.
  • Best the day they're made, the coating softens a bit by day two but they're still good.

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