Fall in Love

Fall is a favorite season for a lot of people. Cold weather, cozy vibes and some delicious home-baked treats. What's not to love?!

Bake something with your heart

This year I wanted to try different baking recipes that I have never done before. No pumpkin breads, or pumpkin cookies or Cinnamon rolls. These are incredibly delicious and I have made them almost every year (Maybe I'll share some recipes later).

I wanted to get into baking donuts, pies and crumbles. I love donuts and wanted to try the baked version- so I tried the simple Maple Glazed Baked donuts

I like to challenge myself with baking without eggs. Growing up in India, "eggless" bakery items were readily available in the market. Although I do consume eggs, occasionally- I am not a huge fan of the eggy taste in baked goods. Its usually masked by tons of sugar and spices. But I have noticed, if you have less sugar you can smell and taste the egg. Or maybe that's just me sitting here with my ultra sensitive nose.

Maple Glazed Donuts

Ingredients:

For Donuts

• All Purpose Flour - 1 1/4 cup or 110 gm

• Coconut Flour- 1/4 cup or 45 g; Can use AP flour instead

• Flax Egg -1

• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

• Baking Powder -1/2 tsp

• Salt - 2 pinch

• Brown sugar - 1/3 cup

• Full fat yogurt - 1/4 cup

• Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup ; I used avocado oil

• Whole milk -1/4 cup

• Water - 1/4 cup ; coconut flour tends to absorb water too much, hence need to add water to make batter the right consistency

• Vanilla essense/paste - 1/4 tsp

• Cinnamon, ground- 1/4 tsp

For Glaze

• Butter, melted - 1 1/2 tbsp or 20 g

• Powdered sugar - 3 tbsp or 40 g

• Maple Syrup - 1 tbsp

• Salt - pinch; skip if using salted butter

  
  

Steps

• Preheat oven at 350 F or 180 C

• Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make sure there are no large lumps of brown sugar. Break down by hands if necessary

• In a separate bowl or measuring jog, add wet ingredients. Whisk until homogenized

• Slowly pour wet mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until combined. The batter is thick and goopy.

• Fill a piping bag with the batter. If not available, you can pour the batter carefully with a spoon. but piping is the easiest method.

• In a greased donut pan, pipe in the donuts.

• Bake for 20 mins for a nice golden brown outer covering. Poke a toothpick into the donut to check there is no raw batter.

• Remove the donuts and invert immediately onto a cooling rack.

• Meanwhile, Add the glaze ingredients into a bowl. Once the donuts are completely cooled, dip the donuts slightly onto the glaze and place on a plate with glazed side up. Alternatively, you can also pour the glaze onto the donuts- there is no wrong way to do it.

Enjoy!