Vegan Vanilla Baked Frosted Doughnuts

Baked doughnuts have never really flipped our switch until we baked up this batch. They were perfectly sweet and fluffy and cute to boot. Look at these awesome Sweetapolita sprinkles we found at Winners pre-pandemic. Sprinkles like these make any dessert so fun and exciting. 

There's no special reason that these doughnuts are heart-shaped other than the fact that we only have a heart-shaped doughnut pan. It's not a bad problem to have - who doesn't want to be reminded of love?

Look at them shining brightly in the sun. This picture puts a smile on face.

And this one puts a smile on my belly lol. These doughnuts are so soft and flavourful. 

Vegan Vanilla Baked Doughnuts

adapted from Choosing Chia

Ingredients

Doughnuts:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/3 cups oat milk

2 tbsp + 2 tsp coconut oil

2 tbsp + 2 tsp unsweetened apple sauce 

2 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting:

1 cup icing sugar

1 tbsp Earth Balance

1 tbsp vanilla soy milk (or any plant-based milk)

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

Grease doughnut pan. Preheat oven to 400 F.

In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients, and in a medium-sized bowl or large measuring cup mix together the wet ingredients. 

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until combined. Do not over mix.

Carefully spoon the batter into the doughnut pan. 

Bake for 11 minutes. Remove from the oven and let them sit for a couple of minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely before frosting.

For the frosting: Mix together the icing (powdered) sugar, earth balance until smooth then add a tiny bit of soy milk to start so as not to make it too thin. Add enough to give a nice stiff-ish frosting and then add the vanilla and mix well. 

Frost the donuts with the frosting and add sprinkles! We used Sweetapolita sprinkles.