Air Fryer Doughnuts!!

Gluten-Free, Refined Sugar-Free, & Dairy-Free (optional)

Air Fryer Doughnuts

Doughnut Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, warm as if you were giving a baby a bath

• 2 1/2 teaspoon yeast

• 1/4 cup raw honey, it’s okay if it spills over

• 1 egg

• 1/2 teaspoon salt (I use Himalayan)

• 1/4 cup butter, melted (or vegan butter or coconut oil for a dairy-free option)

• 3 cups gluten-free all purpose flour (I love Cup4Cup, but for a dairy-free option, I recommend Open Nature)

*Scroll to the bottom of the recipe to pick from the different topping and glaze ideas!

Doughnut Directions:

1. In a Bosch or a bowl of a stand-up mixer fitted with a dough attachment, add the warm milk. Sprinkle the yeast on top of the milk and let it sit for 5 minutes to make sure the yeast rises and expands. If nothing happens, your water is too hot and killed the yeast or the water is too cold.

2. Add the honey, egg, butter, salt, and mix on low until combined.

3. Add 2 1/2 cups of flour and mix on low for 30 seconds. Make sure you measure out the flour correctly! Do not pack the flour or the doughnuts will go too heavy and dry. To properly measure out the flour, pour the flour over the measuring cup then scrape and level off the excess flour with a butter knife!

4. Add the last 1/2 cup of flour SLOWLY and mix on and off as you are adding a little at a time. Sometimes it takes more or less flour. You'll know when you have enough flour when the dough is pulling away from the sides of the Bosch or bowl, it's soft, slightly sticky, and easy to work with. When you have enough flour, mix for 2 minutes on low. Since it's gluten-free, we don't need to knead the flour that much!

5. Roll out the dough about 1/2 inch thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut out circles with a 3 inch round biscuit cutter, and a 1/2-1 inch round cutter to make a hole in the center. (I just use the bottom of a frosting tip to cut the center hole).

6. Lay doughnuts on a pan lined with parchment paper that is lightly floured. Cover with greased plastic paper. Let rise on the counter for 1 hour.

7. Line the bottom of the air fryer basket/pan with parchment paper.

8. On the air fryer setting, set it to 350°F.

9. Bake doughnuts for 5-10 minutes or until lightly golden (every air fryer is different). Flip the doughnuts half way!

Topping ideas below! If you use all three topping recipes, just cut the recipes in half!

Chocolate Glaze

• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I use Hu)

• 2 T. butter (or coconut oil, ghee, or vegan butter, but I prefer butter)

• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a microwave safe bowl, melt the ingredients together in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted. Dip cooled doughnuts into the glaze!

Maple Glaze:

• 1 1/4 cup maple SUGAR (I use the Nova Brand)

• 1 T. almond milk

• 1/2 t. vanilla extract

• 1 T. butter, melted (or coconut oil, ghee, or vegan butter, but I prefer butter)

Add all ingredient to a small blender. Blend until smooth! The more you blend, the more powdery and less “crystally” the maple sugar will be! Dip cooled doughnuts into the glaze!

Cinnamon and Sugar Coat:

• Butter, melted (or ghee or vegan butter. I wouldn't use coconut oil here)

• Maple sugar or organic cane sugar

• Cinnamon

When the doughnuts are still warm, dip them into melted butter, completely immersing them. Roll them in cinnamon and maple sugar! The results are better if you roll them in cinnamon and sugar after they’re done baking!

**Notes: doughnuts aren't meant to be "moist" but if they're drier than you'd like, try baking them for 30 seconds- 1 minute less or try adding less flour next time! Pull them out right of the air fryer when they are starting to golden! These are easy to overbake! In my picture on the bottom left, those 2 doughnuts went more golden than I'd like, but I pulled the other ones right when they were starting to golden and they were perfect!