


If you don't plan on adding toppings, you can add cinnamon or other spices to the dough to add more flavor to the dough.If you wish to add more apple flavor, you can fold in finely chopped apples into the donut dough. You can use sweetened or unsweetened applesauce.Air fried donuts taste best while warm and soon after they are cooked. Fried donuts are best enjoyed the same day they are made.To make your own self-rising flour, add 2 cups all purpose flour, 3 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt to a bowl.3 Ingredient Applesauce Oatmeal Cookies.I rolled my donuts in a cinnamon sugar mixture. You can also add cinnamon or nutmeg to flavor the batter.If you want to enhance the apple flavor, you can add some chopped apple pieces into the batter. These donuts have a mild apple flavor.The donuts come out more dense and bready when baked. If you don’t own an air fryer, you can try baking them. These taste more like a healthier baked version of donuts. The donuts do not come out as light and airy but they are still very tasty, especially after they are rolled in cinnamon sugar (or glaze). If you do not wish to fry the donuts, the next best method is cooking them in the air fryer. When fried, the donuts come out very light and fluffy and taste like regular donuts. If you are looking for a substitute for applesauce, I have also made pumpkin donuts and a banana version.I have not tested this recipe with any flour alternatives.The donuts can be eaten plain or coated in sugar or a glaze.

The two ingredients are mixed together until a dough forms and then it’s ready to be cooked.

Donuts are commonly made with flour dough though they can be made with other types of batter as well. They can be savory like Ukrainian pampushky and Indian vada or shaped like ridged cigars like Spanish churros.ĭonuts filled with fruit preserves are as common as ring-shaped varieties while small spheres of fried dough are referred to as drop donuts or donut holes. While donuts are indeed made with deep-fried dough, they aren’t always shaped like rings nor do they have to be sweet. It’s the most common type but it’s hardly the only one. A sweet ring of fried dough is usually the first thing that comes to mind when people think of donuts. If someone asks you to draw a donut (or doughnut), then you’d probably sketch something that looks like a ring.
