Healthy Recipe: Gluten-Free Apple Cider Donuts

Are you as ready for fall flavors as we are? We love these gluten-free apple cider donuts! These warm spiced donuts - Dr. Becky’s own recipe! - are a delicious way to start off any cool fall day.

Gluten-Free Apple Cider Donuts

Ingredients

• 2 cups of apple cider

• ½ cup of sugar (I used coconut sugar, but regular sugar is fine)

• ¼ cup butter, softened

• 2 large eggs

• ½ cup “buttermilk” (alternative milk, I’ve used unsweetened almond milk and oat milk with 1 TSP of apple cider vinegar, let sit for a minute or two) 

• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

• 1.5 cups 1:1 GF Baking Flour 

• 1/2 cup almond flour 

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

• ¼ teaspoon cloves

Instructions

1. Put cider in saucepan and bring to simmer. Reduce Heat and let it reduce to ½ cup. Set aside to cool. (This takes the longest) 

2. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees 

3. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and reduced cider until combined.

4. Add the flour blend, almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and cloves and beat until smooth.

5. Pour the mixture into a large zip-lock bag and snip about ½ inch off one corner. Carefully pipe mixture into silicon doughnut pan, filling each well about ½ full. Do NOT overfill the doughnut wells

6. Bake the doughnuts until they spring back when gently touched, about 8-10 minutes for large donuts

Optional Topping

• ¼ cup melted butter

• ½ cup coconut sugar & 1 teaspoon cinnamon, whisked together in a bowl

Dip or brush the doughnuts with the melted butter just as soon as they are cool enough to handle and gently toss with the cinnamon/sugar mixture.

For more fall flavors, check out these recipes for Apple Crisp Stuffed Apples and Pumpkin Spice Latte.