Baked Doughnuts

My kids love doughnuts (also spelled donuts) and I've been buying commericial doughnuts for them. My personal favourite is still one with bitter chocolate coating, as it is less sweet as compared to any other flavours. But that was history... I've found a baked version, though it's nothing like the fried ones (it's more cake-like), my children are easily pleased and they are happy as long as I coat the doughnuts with melted chocolate. I choose to omit sprinkles as they contain colourings and preservatives.

Here are 2 trays of baked doughnuts, fresh from the oven. I tossed them over mid-way through baking to get a better browning on the other side.

Melted some bitter chocolate and the kids chomped on these within seconds!

A few flavours to try out:

1. Matcha
2. Cinnamon Sugar
3. White Chocolate
4. Strawberry Chocolate
5. Chocolate Chips
6. Cream Cheese
7. Blueberry Jam

Baked Doughnuts Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup (100g) all-purpose flour
1/4 - 1/3 cup (50g - 75g) sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 tub (150 gm ) plain yogurt
1 tablespoon canola oil
2 teaspoons lemon juice

Method

1. In a small bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
2. Combine the egg, yogurt, oil and lemon juice, mix well.
3. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
4. Coat the tube pans with nonstick cooking sprayand dust with 1 teaspoon confectioners' sugar. (I omit this since I'm using a nonstick pan)
5. Transfer batter into a piping bag and pipe into pan.
6. Pipe the batter till half full so that you will see donut hole when baked. 3/4 full will not be able to see any donut hole when baked.
7. Bake at 200°C for 10 - 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
8. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.