Applesauce Donuts
These baked applesauce donuts are coated with cinnamon sugar and so incredibly good! One of my all-time favorite apple desserts.
Ingredients
- 1 cupall-purpose flour
- ¾ tspbaking powder
- ½ tspground cinnamon
- ½ tspsalt
- 4 tbspunsalted butter (at room temperature)
- ¼ cupbrown sugar
- 2 tbspgranulated sugar
- 1 largeegg (at room temperature)
- ½ tspvanilla extract
- ⅓ cupunsweetened applesauce
- 3 tbspmilk
- ⅓ cupgranulated sugar
- ½ tspcinnamon
- 1 tbspunsalted butter (melted)
Directions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 2
Lightly grease a 6-hole donut pan with extra butter. Set aside.
- 3
In a bowl combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
- 4
Using an electric mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until creamy.
- 5
Add the egg, vanilla extract, applesauce and milk and beat until combined.
- 6
Add the flour mixture and beat until smooth.
- 7
Spoon the batter into a large piping bag and pipe the batter into the donut cavities.
- 8
Bake for 18- 22 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean and donuts are set.
- 9
Remove the pan from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
- 10
Gently remove the donuts from the pan.
- 11
To make the coating, in a small bowl combine combine the granulated sugar and cinnamon.
- 12
Brush each donuts with melted butter and coat in spiced sugar.