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Baked Apple Cider Donuts. These Cider donuts have amazing spiced flavor with concentrated cider. Perfect for fall. Vegan Soyfree Recipe. Nutfree Refined Sugar-Free Oilfree Glutenfree option Jump to Recipe
These Apple Cider Donuts are perfect for fall or any time of the year for that matter. The key to all the fall flavor is reducing the cider! Apple Cider gets cooked for a bit to concentrate all that amazing flavor of apples and spices. Concentrated cider, flour, more spices all baked into a flavorful spiced donut! Toss in cinnamon sugar or drizzle icing of choice. These will be a hit with everyone. 15 mins of Active time, no refined sugar!
The donut batter does not use yeast, so it can also be baked into regular size muffins or mini muffins as well. Add some finely chopped apples to the batter, top with a streusel and they are ready for to go breakfast. Lets make these!
More Donuts and Muffins
- Pumpkin Donuts – yeasted
- Spiced Sweet Potato Doughnuts with Cinnamon sugar SF
- Gluten-free Lemon Donuts
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
- Classic Donuts.
- Banana Bread Donuts
The batter also makes fantastic muffins. The concentrated cider adds a ton more flavor than regular cider. It also makes the donuts slightly dense, which means even more packed flavor!
Baked Apple Cider Donuts Vegan
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups + 2 tbsp apple cider (not vinegar, but the fermented apple drink)
- 1/4 cup sugar, (coconut sugar, date sugar, regular or use maple syrup), 1/3 cup for sweeter
- 1 cup flour, (I use a mix of 1/4 cup whole wheat and 3/4 cup all purpose), see note for gluten-free
- 1 tbsp almond flour, , or use more flour
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp cardamom or nutmeg
- dash of black pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp oil or applesauce, (or both for extra moisture when using whole grain flours)
Cinnamon sugar topping:
- 1 tbsp cane sugar
- 1 tbsp coconut sugar or brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 deg F(180 C). Grease a donut pan or line muffin pan. Cook 1.5 cups cider and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat for 20 to 25 mins to reduce to a scant 1 cup. Cool the cider to room temp. (cooling will reduce the cider further to about 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp)
- In a bowl, mix the rest the dry ingredients. Add the concentrated cider and oil/applesauce. Mix well to combine. If the batter is too thick, mix in non dairy milk 1 tbsp at a time until it is just a bit flowy to be able to spoon it in. If the batter is too thin, add in 1-2 tbsp flour
- Immediately spoon the batter into the donut pan or muffin pan. Even out the batter for even shape for donuts.
- Bake for 11-12 mins for donuts or mini muffins, 20-22 mins for regular muffins. Cool for 5 mins, then release from the pan.
- Mix the cinnamon sugar into a ziplock.(or add to a shallow bowl)
- Cool the donuts for another 5 mins. Brush donuts with the non dairy milk or cider, or use oil/melted vegan butter. Add to the ziplock and shake, or dip in the sugar mixture.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hello I would love to make these but I was wondering if you think I could use oat flour.. I can’t have almond flour so if you would know how to make these gluten free hopefully using oat flour that would be amazing… thank you so much!!
You can use a mix of oat flour and starch.Oat flour tends to dry out on baking, so add a generous icing (sugar and non dairy milk and dip or drizzle all over)
Thank you so much….i will dip them in apple cider…. Can’t wait to make them🍎❤️
I just made them and they barely filled up three donut holes?? Wondering if I did something wrong or if it’s supposed to make only 3 donuts??
I usually get 6 or 5 if i fill the pan a bit more per donut. I think the cider might have reduced too much (was the batter too thick? ) or maybe the donut pan. Even with the regular size donuts, i’ve noticed that some pans have deeper holes than others, which may affect the amount of batter needed.
These look delicious! I was thinking of adding some grated apple. Would I need to change any other amounts to do this?
add about a half cup grated apple and if the batter is not thick, then add a few tbsp more flour.
Hi Richa! Looks absolutely delicious but I can feel my blood sugar rising just reading about it! I will try it with half the amount of coconut sugar.
Thank you so much for this recipe, my husband called at least 8 apple places near us asking if they had vegan apple cider donuts and they sadly ALL had dairy and eggs.
So I searched for a recipe like this one! Delicious!!
I followed the recipe exact using all purpose flour and oil but it only yielded 4 donuts and the batter was very thick. Any suggestions for next time?
Thanks in advance, awesome website!!!
the cider may have thickened and reduced more. You can add in some non dairy milk a tbsp at a time to make it less thick (like a slightly thick pancake batter consistncy), and then drop into the donut pan and bake.What flour did you use?/ the flour may have absorbed more moisture as well.
Delicious donuts! Thank you for the great recipe. I have tried my fair share of baked vegan donuts recipes and they have never gone over well. But my family loved these. We ate them all last night right away! I had to make more this morning.
awesome!
These turned out great!
Obsessed with all your recipes. Haven’t been disappointed by any yet.
❤️❤️
Delicious 😋
They did not last!
Thank you for helping me learn healthier ways of cooking
yay!
These donuts look so delicious! So unique and perfect for this season!
Very delicious of the most successful recipes I have made Thank you I have baked a cupcake