I don’t really have a sweet tooth but sometimes I crave a little sweet treat. Since most of the doughnuts you buy are not Vegan (most of them have eggs) and they are deep-fried, I decided to experiment a little bit in the kitchen and make my own Vegan baked doughnuts.
This recipe is easy, straightforward and most importantly, I’m quite sure you already have these ingredients at home.
Let’s start!
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup of soy or any other plant-based milk
1 tablespoon of margarine or Vegan spread
2 ½ cups of all-purpose flour or cake flour
1 ½ tablespoon of dry yeast
¾ cup of brown sugar
METHOD:
Put the milk on a small pan and let it get hot (but not boiling). Add the Vegan spread and let it melt into the milk. Stir everything gentle and set aside to cool.
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, place the flour, dry yeast and sugar. Mix everything. Once the liquid mixture cools down, add it to the dry ingredients and combine everything. You will get a nice soft dough ball. Very carefully, dust your counter with a little flour and start kneading your dough for approximately 3 minutes. Do not over knead or you will end up with very tough doughnuts.
Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out. You do not want it too thin or too thick but keeping in mind that these doughnuts will not rise a lot in the oven so don’t roll them too thin. Cut out doughnuts using a doughnut cutter or a Mason jar cover. Use the cover of a plastic bottle to cut out the middle hole. You can use the remaining “holes” to create mini-doughnuts or put them all together, knead and roll the dough out again to create more.
Place doughnuts on a greased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes. The KEY element for a soft doughnut is NOT overcooking the dough, so I strongly suggest to check them at 10 minutes.
In most fried doughnuts recipes, while they are warm you are asked to add the chocolate glaze. I didn’t have any, but I had chocolate frosting so I waited until my doughnuts were cool and I added the frosting plus the sprinkles.
The ending result was better than I expected. Easy, sweet, and comforting.
Give this recipe a try and don’t be afraid to experiment.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Trini Vegan 😉
Hey, I just wanted to know where do you buy your vegan spread and cheese?!
I’ve recently decided to try go vegan after a year of being a vegetarian but I would like to know where you buy these vegan substitutes like the vegan spread and cheese..like everyone I love cheese and I also have a major sweet tooth and I’m the only one in my family wanting to go vegan. So it’s super hard when I have cake and cookies being baked and I can’t touch them lol at least with the vegan desserts it can help?!
Ps. Love your blog. It’s made me feel more motivated
Hi Sam! Thank you for your words. 🙂 I get the Vegan cream cheese in any major food outlet but ONLY when they have a special (so it is a treat). I also make my own cream & onion cream cheese, I love it! Here is the recipe: https://trinivegan.com/cream-cheese/
Also, just because you are Vegan it doesn’t mean you cannot have all the sweet things. I make Vegan chocolate cake all the time and it is really good and super easy. 🙂 (will post a recipe soon!)
Hang in there! I know you can do it. 🙂