Homemade Cottage Cheese Donuts Recipe
Make a dozen of my fluffy, high-protein cottage cheese donuts in just 30 minutes. Top them with cinnamon sugar or a homemade glaze and sprinkles (I tested and love both topping options!).
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cupsall-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoonbaking powder
- ¼ teaspoonsalt
- ½ cupmaple syrup (brown sugar also works)
- ½ cupblended 2% cottage cheese
- 2 largeeggs
- ½ cupunsweetened almond milk
- 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
- 2 tablespoonsmelted coconut oil
- 2 tablespoonsblended 2% cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoonspowdered sugar
- rainbow sprinkles
Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350℉ and spray a donut pan with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- 2
Place the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix to combine. Set aside.
- 3
Place all the wet ingredients, except the melted coconut oil, into a bowl and whisk to combine. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet and whisk together. Then, whisk in the coconut oil.
- 4
Add the batter to a piping bag and then pipe batter into each donut well, about ¾ of the way full.
- 5
Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350℉. Allow the donuts to cool before adding the glaze.
- 6
Prepare the glaze. In a separate bowl, add the blended cottage cheese and powdered sugar and stir to combine. You may need to add more powdered sugar depending on how thick you want it.
- 7
Coat half the donuts in cinnamon sugar and dip half the donuts in the glaze. Top the glazed donuts with rainbow sprinkles while the glaze is still wet.