Baked Cinnamon Donuts (Egg and Dairy Free)
Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts are a fun and sweet way to start the day! These egg free donuts are topped with a cinnamon sugar blend, and made with simple ingredients you probably already have on hand.
Servings: 6 Donuts
Ingredients
Donuts
- 3 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp unsweetened applesauce, level
- 1/4 cup melted butter or neutral flavored oil (such as vegetable or canola oil)
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
Topping
- 1 1/2 Tbsp butter (or dairy-free margarine, if DF)
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F. Spray 6-donut pan (mine is 3 1/4" diameter per donut) with cooking spray – I do this even for nonstick.
- Stir together applesauce, sugars, oil, water, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add to wet ingredients, and whisk together just until combined.
- Distribute batter evenly between the 6 donut openings. For best results, spoon batter into a plastic Ziploc-style bag, and pipe into donut pan through a hole cut in the corner of the bag.
- Bake at 375F for 8-9 minutes.
- Cool in the pan for about 5 minutes before carefully inverting onto a cooling rack.
- In a small bowl, melt butter (or DF margarine/oil). In second bowl, mix together cinnamon and sugar topping. Dip top of each donut in the butter, then dip in cinnamon sugar topping.
Notes
If baking dairy-free, be sure to use DF butter or oil.