Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Baked Donuts

Sometimes, you just have to start your day with some delicious chocolate donuts. Mmmmm donuts~

Ingredients (makes 6 donuts):

For donuts:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1/4 cup of cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoonful of salt
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of almond milk
• 1/4 cup of apple sauce (or mashed bananas)
• 4 tablespoonfuls of coconut oil (melted/clear)
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract

Chocolate "glaze":

• 4 tablespoonfuls of cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoonful of salt
• dash of agave nectar
• almond milk- amount depending on consistency
• white sugar- amount depending on taste
• Toppings of your choice: almond chips, coconut shreds, sprinkles, chocolate chips, etc!

Directions:

• Preheat your oven to 375F and coat a donut pan with any oil you have.
• Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, and salt) into a bowl. Set it aside for now.
• Mix all the wet ingredients (coconut oil, almond milk, apple sauce, and vanilla extract). Pour this into the dry mixture, and give it a good mix without over-mixing. 
• Pipette them into the donut pan. You can use cut out zip lock bag, or if you're lazy like me just spoon them in there really carefully. Haha.
• Now they're ready to go in the oven. Bake for about 10-15 minutes depending on your oven. The donuts are done when they have crusty edges.
• Let's make the "glaze". Add all the ingredients together. Use almond milk to determine the consistency that you want. I put quotation mark around "glaze" because almond milk makes it runnier and the mixture is not as "glazy" as when I melt chocolate chips. Anyways, I added sugar little by little as I tasted the mixture so I don't make it overly sweet. 
• When the donuts are out of the oven and cooled, drizzle the chocolate topping or dip the whole donuts into the topping. Sprinkle them with whatever that you like. As you can see from the pictures, I used coconut shreds and almond chips.

Tada! And they're done! Delicious and healthier donut to kick start your day!

One thing I have to add is that they were a bit dry. I am not a baking expert, but maybe it's because I used coconut oil instead of vegan butter that I normally use? Maybe you can help me. How do you make moist and fluffy vegan bakes? Let me know!

Meal Ideas: Baked Vegan Sriracha Cauliflower Wings

Superbowl is not complete without a set of "wings"!! That's why for this superbowl season, I decided to use cauliflower to make some spicy hot "wings" to go with some football! 

First things first, you make the batter. I used about 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of water along with paprika, garlic salt, and pepper. But this is completely up to you; you can adjust the flour to water ratio to get the thickness you want. Just a tip is, the thicker they are, more batter will stick to cauliflower. Also, feel free to use different types of flour to suit your taste. 

Nicely coated. Wouldn't you say? Then they went into the 400F oven for about 20 minutes.

When they're done, the next step is to toss them into some kind of hot sauce to go with. I didn't have any Buffalo sauce at home. So being an Asian that I am, I used a 1:1 mixture of sriracha and coconut oil. Coconut oil taste tend to be strong, so you can use other types of oil if you don't like that.

 Toss toss toss! And back in the oven they go for additional 8-10 minutes until they're nice and crispy. That's it! Serve with some celery sticks and vegan ranch, and they're good to go!

 Be careful! They're hot!

Recipe: Vegan Baked Donuts

 

Ingredients (makes 12):

• 2 and 2/3 cups of flour
• 2/3 cup of sugar
• 2 teaspoonful of baking soda
• 2 teaspoonful of nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 1 cup of dairy-free milk (I used almond milk)
• 1/4 cup of canola oil
• 1/4 cup of white or apple cider vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract
• chocolate chips (for topping)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 375F
• Mix dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt) in a large bowl
• In another bowl, combine all the wet ingredients (milk, oil, vinegar, and vanilla)
• Slowly mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients
• Place the batter into a greased donut pan (or muffin pan if donut pan's not available)
• Bake for about 10-12 minutes

• Feel free to be creative with your toppings. For mine, I simply melted my chocolate chips and dipped my donuts when they were cooled

Enjoy!