Sundays are made for Black and White Donuts

This weekend has been grey and rainy. We have a break from the weather and in between cleaning my entire house (because that's what Sunday mornings are for!), I decided to whip up a batch of black and white donuts. I loved Black and White Cookies, so this is my vegan and gluten free version of a Black and White cookie.

Black and White Donuts

I feel like it's OK to have one since I'll run it off this afternoon :) If you've never had a vegan and gluten free donut before, the texture might surprise you. These are not like cake donuts, and they're also baked and not fried, so I'm pretending they are better for you. The sugar glaze is super easy to make and adds to the sweetness. This recipe calls for flax eggs instead of egg replacer. I prefer flax eggs but this morning they didn't thicken up quite as much as they usually do. I don't think my water was warm enough, so I put them in the microwave for about 15 seconds. I don't know if it made a difference, but it made me feel better. I used Delightful Adventures' recipe for Vegan Gluten Free Baked Donuts. As usual, the pictures on the original blog are much better than mine! I have several lightbulbs burned out in my house and I'm not tall enough to reach them, so lighting is very 'mood' right now until I find a ladder or a tall person to help me out!

C is for Can't Stop Eating. Taste test was successful :)

Black and White Donuts (gluten free and vegan)

Ingredients

For the donuts:
1 T ground flax seeds
3 T warm water
3/4 c gluten free flour mix (I use Bob's Red Mill 1 for 1 mix)
1/4 c unsweetened cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 c and 3 T sugar
1/2 c unsweetened coconut milk beverage
3 T melted coconut oil
1 tsp vanilla

For the glaze:
3/4 c powdered sugar
2 T warm unsweetened coconut milk beverage
dash of vanilla

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
2. Grease donut pan
3. Prepare flax egg by whisking together ground flax seeds and warm water. Set side to thicken.
4. In large bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
5. In small bowl, mix milk, melted coconut oil, vanilla and flax egg together.
6. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well to combine.
7. Using a large Ziploc bag, pipe mixture evenly into each cavity.
8. Bake for 10 minutes, remove from oven and let the pan sit for about five minutes before removing the donuts.
9. Remove donuts from the pan and place on a cooling rack.
10. While donuts are cooling, make the glaze: 1) combine powdered sugar, warm milk and vanilla in a small bowl and whisk to combine until it has created a liquid glaze. 2) When donuts are fully cool, dip the tops of each donut into the glaze. 3) Place the donuts back on cooling rack to let excess glaze drip off and for the glaze to firm up.

While flax eggs don't look great, they make vegan baking possible

I use a whisk to add try ingredients to make sure they mix thoroughly. 

Once the wet and dry are mixed together, it's fairly thick.

If you don't have a donut baking pan, you can use a baking
 pan, just expect them to be fairly flat and spread out

This recipe makes six donuts.
Obviously if you need more, double the recipe.

Make sure you mix the glaze well so you
don't have powdered sugar chunks.