Baked Vegan Doughnuts With Lemon Glaze
Happy February! I picked up Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Diet today. I’ve actually grabbed it twice before, both times putting it back, but something keeps drawing me to this book so maybe it’s a sign! Whatever it is, I’m excited to open it up and get started. I’ve already been wondering if a juicer and a dehydrator, two appliances I don’t have, are going to be necessary to follow the adventure cleanse.
That being said, I do still have a few treat recipes to share from over the holidays. I made these baked doughnuts (or donuts, whichever you prefer) for guests and helpers using a 6-cavity doughnut pan. They’re a nice cake-like doughnut with a spicy sweetness, perfect alone or with powdered sugar, but especially delicious with a drizzle of lemon glaze. Take the extras to the office if you prefer your family not be tempted eat the whole dozen!
Baked Vegan Doughnuts
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3/4 cup soymilk
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seeds
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons warm water
- 2 tablespoons vegan butter
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease or spray doughnut pan. In a measuring cup or small bowl, combine soymilk and apple cider vinegar and set aside for 5 minutes. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. In a small bowl, whisk together the ground flax seeds and warm water. Whisk flax mixture, soymilk mixture, and vegan butter into the dry ingredients until just combined. Fill each doughnut cavity 2/3 full. Bake 8-9 minutes or until doughnuts are golden brown. Allow pan to cool about 5 minutes before removing doughnuts. Repeat filling and baking with the second half of the batter. Enjoy!
For a simple lemon glaze, just combine 1 cup powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and drizzle or dip! Or if lemon isn’t your thing, use 2 tablespoons of non-dairy milk for a plain glaze. We’re big fans of a touch of lemon around here!
Are you over vegan sweets now that the holidays are long gone?
Do you have a juicer and/or dehydrator? If so, do they get regular use? Were they worth the investment?
3. Bake 7-9 minutes, or until the top of the donuts spring back when touched. Cool in pan for about 4-5 minutes before removing from pan.
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I own both a juicer and a dehydrator! The juicer hasn’t seen much use, since it tends to be more trouble than it’s worth (it’s very messy and uses a ton of fruit to make not-that-much juice, then creates all this excess organic material that I’ve no idea how to use).
The dehydrator, on the other hand, works almost non-stop during the fall months, since I do a lot of gardening and have extra fruits and veggies (mostly tomatoes and apples) to preserve. I have a few apple trees, and boil extra apples down to make applesauce, which I then dehydrate into fruit leather. Waaay better than the store-bought stuff. I also make dried sweet potato chews for the dogs, year-round. I love my Gardenmaster!
But you know what you can never go wrong with? Vegan doughnuts! Yum.
It’s such a hard decision, because I don’t think I would be able to tell which I’d use more until I had them!
The doughnuts look great, especially dripping with that lemon glaze. I’m normally burned out on sugar after the holidays, but that hasn’t been the case this year. Maybe it’s because I didn’t do as much baking during the holidays as I usually do…
No juicer or dehydrator here, although I do want to get the latter. One thing that puts me off about it (and for many kitchen appliances in general) is how much counter space dehydrators tend to take up. I also heard that some are loud, so I’m curious to hear whether anyone else has thoughts on this.
I read that Tribest now makes a quieter one, but it’s as big as a microwave… so that is a lot of counter space!
Funny – I have feedback opposite of Kelly. I have both a dehydrator & a juicer, and while I like my dehydrator, I could live without it for sure – and I actually didn’t use it once during the CSD cleanse. My juicer, on the other hand, gets a workout almost everyday (sometimes twice during the cleanse!). I have the Omega J8005 juicer, which is super easy to use, even easier to clean/put back together, and is very efficient with produce (i.e. it extracts as much juice as possible, yielding dry pulp). So while sometimes I feel guilty about putting the pulp down the disposal, if a juicer is doing its job properly, all that’s being “wasted” is fiber; there are very little nutrients left, since the nutrients go into the juice!
BUT, I often make flax crackers, and incorporate the pulp into the crackers – which is where the dehydrator comes in handy.
Definitely don’t feel like you have to rush out & buy either of these appliances, though. I was super happy to have my juicer during the cleanse, but I could have made due with just a blender & green smoothies, too.
Oh – and my dehydrator is fairly noisy, but I wouldn’t say “loud.” I guess it sounds similar to a microwave… It doesn’t bother me, but it’s not silent, either. (I have the Excalibur 9-tray.)
Jeez, this got long!! Your donuts look awesome!!!
Thank you so much for your input! I hadn’t even looked at the Omega’s because everyone talks about Breville, but now if I get a juice I want either the one you have or the Omega VRT!
They sound so good! I may be ordering a doughnut pan soon…
Yay!
I was saying on Twitter the other day that I bet this recipe would work in muffin tins as well.
It is nice to see you are back. I make doughnuts similar to the ones you posted and my mom can’t get enough of them. I love to bake so any chance I get to bake I will take it.
Aww, it’s nice you bake for your mom!
I love to bake too!
I will never ever be over sweets. These donuts only confirm that. I loooove the idea of lemon glaze. Do these taste like cake though? Or actual donuts?
These taste like the cake doughnuts and not the yeast doughnuts, so yeah, more like cake.
welcome back! missed you.
i have a juicer and dehydrator. i think a juicer is probably a better one to do over a dehydrator if you had to choose. try to get a masticating one if possible.
Thanks, Bitt!
I’m definitely gong to get a masticating juicer when I get one.
Wow, these look incredible! I love vegan donuts but they’re hard to find, especially good ones. Looking forward to giving them a try someday – I want to try making them gluten-free… I included the recipe in this post: http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/eco-vegan-gal/blog/15652-Meatless-Monday-5-Sweet-Recipes-Too-Good-to-Be-Vegan-But-they-Are
Thank you so much!!