Vegan Protein Donuts
Servings: 5
Ingredients
For donuts:
- ½ cup of unsweetened applesauce or one 3.9 ounce single serve container
- ½ cup of any nut/seed butter I've tried these with almond, peanut, and sunflower seed butters
- 2 tablespoons of maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon of salt
- ¼ teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 scoop of protein powder ~1/8 of a cup. You can also replace this with 1/8 cup of coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
For Icing (which is optional):
- ⅔ cup dark chocolate
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon of vegan butter
- Optional: sprinkles for topping
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F and grease a donut pan.
- Make the donut batter by combining the applesauce, nut/ seed butter, honey, vanilla, salt, baking soda, protein powder, and cocoa in a medium bowl. Stir until it is thoroughly combined and there are no more big lumps left.
- Spoon the batter into a piping bag or small plastic baggie (with a hole cut in the corner) to make it easier to get the batter in the donut pan.
- Pipe the batter into the pan evenly. You'll end up with 5 donuts.
- Bake for 8-13 minutes. After 8 minutes, take the pan out of the oven and test to see of the donuts are done by poking one with a toothpick. The donuts are done when the toothpick comes out clean. The bake time depends largely on the kind of nut/seed butter that you use.
- Once done let cool completely before icing.
- Make icing by melting chocolate and stirring in the butter and cocoa powder.
- Ice each donut evenly and top with a few fun sprinkles. the icing will harden quite a bit if that's what you want but it will take up to a few hours to do so.
- ENJOY!!
