Gluten Free Baked Powdered Sugar Doughnuts
Looking at my headline, you might be wondering what on earth is a “Beetified Blogger” – well, I figured I would kick off this second month of 2015 with a new series called: the “Beetified Blogger Series” ~ in which I simply “beet-ify” a blogger!
You see, I adore y’all, my fellow bloggers and I adore beets, so, starting this month, I figured I would pick a recipe from a fellow blogger that my daughter and I have been drooling over and replicate it – using beets! I hope to try and do this once a month for the rest of this year. I don’t have any rhyme or reason behind whose recipes I duplicate, other than the fact that my daughter and I might happen across something totally mouthwatering that I think would be prettier in red! So if y’all happen to have any suggestions -any recipes of yours or others that would look pretty in red – please pass them on!
I first toyed around with this idea during my beet crepe post and today, my first victim Beetified Blogger happens to be David @ Spiced. David has tantalized the tastebuds of all of us who have visited his site with his mouthwatering Double Chocolate Nut Bark, his insanely addicting Goat Cheese Flatbread using his wife’s BRILLIANT roasted grapes idea, and his oh-the-postlady-smelt-&-stole-the-package Butter Pecan Pound Cake! When I was reading his story behind some powdered sugar doughnuts he made, my daughter took one look at his Baked Powdered Sugar Doughnuts and announced these needed to happen in our home and…so…they did happen..with beets!
I also subbed brown rice flour for the cake flour making these gluten free – I used coconut oil in the first batch I made, and melted butter (like David’s recipe suggested) in the second batch – and the batch with the melted butter was way more fluffier and way more moist – I guess butter does make these doughnuts better! My daughter and I so enjoyed these beetified doughnuts – but, if you happen to want to make the un-Beetified version of these, please head on over to David @ Spiced to grab that recipe!
[Tweet “Gluten Free, Baked Powdered Sugar Doughnuts, Adapted from @SpicedBlog @RunninSrilankan”]
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 brown rice flour
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup milk I used almond milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 3 tablespoons beets
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F and spray a doughnut pan with cooking spray
- In a bowl, add all of the dry ingredients - the brown rice flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt and stir
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg then add the almond milk, vanilla extract, melted butter and beets and mix well.
- Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients, stirring till well incorporated..
- Spoon the batter into the doughnut pan.
- Bake at 425°F for 12-14 minutes.
- Let doughnuts cool in the pan. and then remove
- Add powdered sugar into a bag (David used a paper one, but I used a plastic one, place doughnuts (one at a time) in the bag and shake with the powdered sugar until well coated. Tap off any excess powdered sugar and repeat with the remaining doughnuts.
- Enjoy immediately!
Love these donuts, Shashi! I always had a weakness to powdered donuts when I was younger and am seriously craving a big batch of these right now! I love that you made them gluten free and added beets, so creative lady! They look incredible and I love the color!
Thanks so much Kelly!
So…silly question…but do they taste like beets? I’m not really sure if I like beets, as I don’t think I’ve actually had them. But I have a jar of homemade canned beets in my pantry that I could probably use for this. I guess if I pureed a few of them?
Also, do you think they’d work with regular flour? Sorry for all the questions, but these have me intrigued!
Allison – they don’t taste exactly like beets straight up – but there is a difference in taste – kinda like if carrot cake was made with carrot puree – I hope I didn’t confuse you with that…
Please don’t apologize for the questions – yes, I am thinking regular flour would work – I adapted this recipe from David @ Spiced who did use regular flour in his.
I think that you are determined for all of us to try and love beets:) I do love the color of the donuts!!!
Kim – you can read my mind! 🙂
I would totally cookie monster these to oblivion, Shashi!
Haha – thanks Sean!
Awesome idea for the series! I love how you use beets so often and now there will be even more! I don’t have any recipes for you to beetify, but if I did i would be honored to be selected! =)
Thanks Chris! I could always “beetify” that bacon loaf you made – now pureed beets makes some realistic looking guts and gore! 🙂
Wow! Love your beet powdered doughnuts, Shashi, as well as your beetified blogger series! Very creative and the pink is very pretty.Thanks for sharing and have a great week!
Thanks so very much Stacy! Hope you had a great week and weekend!
I am totally honored that you selected me as your first Beetified Blogger, Shashi! Powdered doughnuts hold a special place in my heart…after all, I ate enough of them as a kid. I’m totally digging this beetified version, though. These would be perfect for Valentine’s Day. Forget the candy…just give someone one of these doughnuts instead. It’s better than hitting them with Cupid’s arrow. 🙂 Kudos to you for an awesome recipe…pinning it right now!!
Thank YOU for letting me manipulate YOUR recipe, David! And – these were so much fun to “taste test”! 🙂
You are so very clever! I love how you beetified these doughnuts! They look great. Congratulations on the new series!
Thanks so very much Ramona!
Healthier powdered donuts! YES PLEASE. My Grandpa used to always buy us powdered donuts as a kid, so these have a special place in my heart. What a fun new series girl! Pinned!
Thank you so much girl!!! You know wht – I didn’t have a powdered doughnut till I was a teenager!
the color alone makes me swoon.. a GF swoon!
Haha – thanks lady!
Thank you for giving me the biggest donut craving at 4:30 AM 😛 And please don’t ask what I’m doing awake at 4:30. These look great though, Shashi. And I’m loving the red beety theme for February! You can even get all fancy and call it red velvet 😉 But seriously… biggest.donut.craving.
Lady – I wake up at 4.30am too – so I won’t ask! In my case, it’s not by choice – I just wish I could have a carbon copy of myself I could send to work and a scratch and taste monitor at home so I could “taste” recipes and blog and comment all day – ahhhh…am dreaming!
I would never have thought of using beets in a donut recipe. What a great recipe and especially one which I know Lynne would love for valentines day. Thanks Shashi! 🙂
You are so welcome – thanks Neil! If you make these I would love to know what you and Lynne think. Hope y’all had a wonderful weekend!
Gah I can’t even remember the last time I ate a donut but that needs to change asap- you’ve left me hankering! Not going to lie- the best part about sugar donuts is the face full of sugar part at the end ;)! If my future kids don’t like veggies, I’m sending them to you- SO impressed that you managed to sneak veggies into a donut!
Haha – thanks so much lady!
Yeah – my daughter had the same thoughts as you – she had powdered sugar on her nose and smeared all over the lower part of her face!
These are almost too gorgeous to eat…. almost! You should make a huge roundup post of all your beet recipes. I bet it’d be a huge hit.
Jessie – you are THE BOMB DOT COM! I <3 your idea for a beet recipe round up – maybe before Valentines day? Thanks lady! xx
You are so creative, Shashi! I love these gf doughnuts!
Aww-you are so kind – thanks so much Angie!
Can.Not.Resist.Donuts! Also, these are perfectly themed for Valentine’s Day so I would eat a few (many!) just in the spirit of the season, ya’ know?! 🙂
Hey – anything or any amount consumed with the spirit of the season in mind is a-ok right? 😉
Thanks so much!