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Vegan & GF Maple Doughnuts with Salted Almond Butter Glaze

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Rather than bore you with details of the constant wallpaper scraping and other real-life, highly repetitive, and very zen activities of new home ownership (maybe I should blog about it?!), I’m going to talk about doughnuts instead. AW YEAH. Glazes and sprinkles and yums and AALLLLLL that. Let’s do it.

My bud Ashley from The Edible Perspective is an expert on the subject of doughnut making and even better, she knows her way around some higher vibe doughnut making as well. So she developed, tested and photographed a book‘s worth of content about it and the results are so, so great. I had a doughnut pan kind of languishing in the back of a cupboard for a long time. I had bought the cookbook from a very high profile bakery with the hopes of executing their doughnuts at home. So I bought the pan and tried the recipes out. Multiple attempts and totally disappointing results each time. Always such a bummer!

Then Ash sent me a copy of her book. Let’s talk about changing the game entirely. Her combination of flours makes for a pretty wonderful texture, without all the expensive gums that can be ubiquitous in gluten free baking. Her advice and approach comes from a place of experience, warmth and accessibility. I always appreciate her encouraging and authentic voice. The potential for innovative flavour combinations is showcased to the utmost through the pages. There’s doughnut cakes, savoury treats, ice cream, and! She even thought of my sweet pup with a recipe for peanut butter and pumpkin doggie doughnuts. Cute right?

I went with her vegan maple doughnuts and a version of her tahini maple glaze for topping. We were out of tahini so I went for almond butter and a complimentary fat pinch of sea salt to work its magic with the maple. So, so yummy.

Anyway, I’d like one of you to have some doughnut fun at home, so Ash is letting me give away a copy of her book, Baked Doughnuts For Everyone (plus a dope set of measuring spoons)! All ya gotta do is tell me what your favourite doughnut is in the comments. Mine? The grapefruit and candied ginger one from Pies ‘n’ Thighs in Brooklyn ranks pretty high. Prior to that, I was more of a classic raspberry jelly-filled kinda gal. But I promise if you bake me any of the goodies from Ash’s book, I’ll pretty much be your bestie for life. Yep, they’re that good. I’ll close the giveaway next Monday (the 28th), so tell me about your faves, people! (Note: giveaway is open to US, Canada + UK residents only) THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, PEEPS :)

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VEGAN AND GF MAPLE DOUGHNUTS WITH SALTED ALMOND BUTTER GLAZE
Print the recipe here!
From Baked Doughnuts for Everyone by Ashley McLaughlin
SERVES: makes 8-10
NOTES: I went in with chopped pecans and pumpkin seeds to top mine (nature’s sprinkles!), but cacao nibs, chopped dried cherries or any other nut/seed would be lovely. Also, you need a donut pan for this recipe!

doughnuts ingredients:
1/2 cup oat flour
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
2 tbsp natural cane sugar
2 tbsp almond meal
2 tbsp coconut flour
2 tbsp ground flax seeds
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
3 tbsp neutral oil (like sunflower or grapeseed)
2 1/2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tsp vanilla extract

salted almond butter glaze ingredients:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp almond butter
2-3 tbsp unsweetened almond milk
2 tbsp maple syrup
pinch of cinnamon
fat pinch of sea salt
+ chopped nuts and seeds to garnish if you like

Grease your doughnut pan(s) and heat your oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine the oat flour, sweet rice flour, cane sugar, almond meal, coconut flour, ground flax, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Whisk to fully combine.

In a small bowl, combine the almond milk, applesauce, oil, maple syrup and vanilla. Whisk to fully combine.

Pour the liquid components into the large bowl with the dry ingredients. Fold it all together with a spatula until just combined (or until you don’t see dry flour bits anymore). Spoon the batter into your doughnut pan (or fill a ziploc bag with the batter, cut off a corner and pipe it into the pan). Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into one of the doughnuts comes out clean. Gently remove the doughnuts from the pan and allow them to cool thoroughly.

While doughnuts are cooling, mix up the glaze. In a small bowl, whisk together all of the glaze ingredients until you have a smooth mixture.

Once cool, dip doughnuts into the glaze and return them to your cooling rack so the glaze can harden a bit. Press any chopped nuts/seeds etc into the glaze at this point.

23/10/2013 (Last Updated: 23/10/2013)
Posted in: autumn, breakfast, dessert, gluten free, salty, spring, summer, sweet, vegan, winter
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