Gingerbread Baked Doughnuts

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    32mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    12
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    287
based on 1 ratings

Warm apple-gingerbread spiced mini doughnuts with a smooth maple syrup glaze.

recipe updated Feb 21, 2022

Ingredients

  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    130 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    ¾ teaspoon
  • Baking soda icon
    Baking soda
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Ground cinnamon icon
    Ground cinnamon
    1 teaspoon
  • Ground ginger icon
    Ground ginger
    ½ teaspoon
  • Allspice icon
    Allspice
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Ground cloves icon
    Ground cloves
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Brown sugar icon
    Brown sugar
    435 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    1
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    3 tablespoons
  • Applesauce icon
    Applesauce
    65 g
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    3 tablespoons
  • Maple syrup icon
    Maple syrup
    ¼ tablespoon
  • Powdered sugar icon
    Powdered sugar
    245 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Whisk
  • kCook icon Microwave
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Stove
  • kCook icon Mini doughnut pan
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Saucepan
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 175°C
  2. Grease 2 clean mini doughnut pans
  3. Add all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, allspice, ground cloves, salt and brown sugar to a clean large mixing bowl
  4. Whisk briefly until combined
  5. Add egg, milk and applesauce to the batter
  6. Add unsalted butter to a clean small bowl
  7. Melt in microwave - low heat
  8. Add melted butter to the batter and mix until combined
  9. Transfer batter to 2 mini doughnut pans
  10. Bake until springy to touch - 7 min, 175°C
  11. Add unsalted butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, milk and powdered sugar to a clean saucepan and mix
  12. Heat until just boiling
  13. Dip each mini doughnut into glaze
  14. Let set onto cooling rack
  15. Let cool until set
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