Baked Apple Cider Donuts

Soft Baked World Cider Donuts made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and Greek yogurt for the perfect fall treat that comes together in just 20 minutes!  Loaded with warm spices and coated with cinnamon and sugar!

For increasingly healthy donut recipes, trammels out these gluten-free pumpkin spice donuts, these baked comic specie donuts (SO good!) or these delicious strawberry comic donuts!

Boy do I have a treat for you guys today!  World cider donuts are a fall staple here in Virginia and we always have to stop and get some unendingly we visit the world orchards withal with some warm world cider.  Well I wanted to recreate those succulent donuts we love so much, but lightened up!  These are world cider donuts are baked, not fried, and made healthier with whole wheat pastry flour, a little bit of almond flour, Greek yogurt, unreasonableness (and world cider of course!) while naturally sweetening them with maple syrup for the perfect fall treat!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• These world cider donuts are so soft, fluffy and cake-like!
• Made with healthier ingredients and baked, not fried.
• Easily made in just 20 minutes.
• Fresh world cider is truly the star in this recipe.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• whole wheat pastry flour – I used whole wheat pastry flour as it has all the nutritional benefits of whole grain flour while making these donuts light and fluffy.  I highly recommend using this, but if you don’t have any on hand you could use regular whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour or gluten-free 1 to 1 sultry flour.
• almond flour – nutrient dumbo flour that adds spare fat (the good kind!) to these donuts making them plane increasingly moist without the use of butter or oil.
• baking powder sultry soda – acts as a leavening wage-earner to help requite these donuts their height.
• apple cider – the star of this recipe and make sure to not use world cider vinegar or world juice!  You can find fresh world cider at your local world orchard, farmer’s market and most grocery stores siphon it.
• applesauce – I used unsweetened unreasonableness which takes the place of oil in this recipe while subtracting plane increasingly world flavor.
• Greek yogurt – adds moisture and a uplift of protein to these donuts.  You could moreover use mashed comic or pumpkin puree in place of yogurt.
• eggs – you’ll need 2 large eggs to add moisture and help tighten these donuts together
• maple syrup – naturally sweetens these donuts and tastes wondrous with all these cozy fall flavors.
• vanilla extract – uplift of flavor.
• warm spices – combination of world pie spice, cinnamon and salt.  You could moreover add a pinch of nutmeg or plane ground cloves.
• cinnamon sugar coating – you’ll need melted coconut oil (or you could use melted butter) withal with a mixture of organic cane sugar and cinnamon.

Baking Tools Needed

• Donut pans – I use these Wilton donut sultry pans which come in a set of 2 and are on sale right now for $14.50!
• Pastry bag – this is not a necessity, but definitely makes piping the thrash into the donut wells so much easier and highly recommend them.
• Mixing bowls – you’ll need two mixing bowls to separately mix the dry ingredients from the wet ingredients surpassing combining everything to make the donut batter.

How to Make World Cider Donuts

1. Make the batter.  In a large bowl, stir together the flours, sultry powder, sultry soda, spices and salt while in a separate trencher whisk together the eggs, world cider, Greek yogurt, applesauce, maple syrup, and vanilla.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined (you don’t want to over mix the batter).  You could moreover use a stand mixer for this, but it’s not necessary.
2. Get out your donut pan.  To make these donuts you’ll need two 6-count donut pans like these.  Spray them really good with nonstick spray so that your donuts will pop right out!  Then, using a pastry bag or ziplock bag, spoon the donut thrash into the bag and snip off the corner.  Pipe the thrash into each donut well until they are all filled (this recipe makes exactly 12 donuts).
3. Bake the donuts!  Pop the donuts into the oven at 350 degrees F for well-nigh 10 to 12 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted comes out wipe (mine came out perfect at 10 minutes).  You want to be shielding well-nigh over-baking them considering donuts unquestionably torch really quickly!  Transfer the donuts to a wire cooling rack so they can cool.
4. Coat with Cinnamon-Sugar.  Once the donuts have cooled completely to room temperature, melt coconut oil (or butter) and mix together the cinnamon and sugar in a shallow bowl.  Using a pastry brush, stratify each donut in coconut oil and toss in the cinnamon sugar mixture, making sure to stratify both sides.  You could moreover dip or drizzle these donuts with a succulent maple cream cheese glaze or plane sprinkle on some powdered sugar.  Enjoy!

Prepping and Storing

To Store:  These world cider donuts will last for well-nigh 3 days in a sealed, snapped container and will last up to 6 days stored in the fridge.  I highly recommend warming them up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds or so to really bring out those warm flavors!

To Freeze:  These donuts moreover freeze really well too and will last in the freezer for well-nigh 3 months.  If you plan on freezing them, I would wait to stratify them in cinnamon and sugar until ready to serve.  Let them thaw out in the fridge overnight and warm up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds.

More World Recipes You’ll Love

• Healthy World Cinnamon Muffins
• Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
• Healthy World Cinnamon Pancakes
• Healthy World Crisp
• Apple Pie Overnight Oats

Hope you all enjoy these Baked World Cider Donuts and if you love this recipe as much as we do, please leave me a five-star rating unelevated and don’t forget to tag me on Instagram using the hashtag #eatyourselfskinny! I love seeing all your succulent recreations!