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Introducing the easiest Gluten Free Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts using just 4 ingredient. These baked doughnuts also dairy-free, egg-free, oil free, refined sugar free and vegan. And you can make them in less than 20 minutes!
Recipe Difficulty – Easy
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📋 About The Recipe
These Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts are one of the best things I have baked in a long time!
Extremely easy to make using only 4 ingredients. They’re light, fluffy, sweet and absolutely delicious and made in 20 minutes.
And they’re totally allergy friendly so literally everyone can enjoy. No gluten, dairy, eggs, white sugar or oil in sight.
I also added this recipe into my collection of 21 Gluten Free Easter Recipes, my best 33 Vegan Desserts and 35 Gluten Free Desserts round up!
👨🏻🍳 Why Make This Recipe
- Incredibly easy – Literally the easiest doughnuts ever!
- Ready in 20 minutes – And 12 minutes of that is watching them bake.
- Only 4 ingredients – Which you may already have in the cupboards.
- Extremely tasty – Light, fluffy with the perfect sweetness.
- Allergy friendly – Gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, oil-free, refined sugar free and suitable for vegans!
🍩 Ingredients to make Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts
- Gluten Free Self-Raising Flour – is one of my favourite gluten-free products. It is different from regular gluten-free flour blends because it also includes some baking powder and salt. I also use it in my Lemon Drizzle Cake.
- Almond Milk – is my preferred milk of choice in these vegan chocolate donuts, but any plant-based milk will do the job.
- Coconut Sugar: I opt for this ingredient over brown sugar to keep the dish refined sugar-free, but you can use the latter if needed. I also make a brilliant Gluten Free Carrot Cake using it
- Cinnamon – this is my hero ingredient for this recipe! It’s sweet, warming and a key ingredient for Autumn recipes! I also love the flavour it adds to my Apple and Blackberry Crumble.
Substitutions
If you haven’t got all the ingredients, here are a few swap suggestions for you.
- Gluten-Free Self Raising Flour – Swap for normal flour if you’re not gluten-free. If you only have plain gluten-free flour then see my FAQ below with how to turn it into self-raising flour.
- Milk – You can use any milk of choice.
- Coconut Sugar – for brown sugar.
🍩 How to make Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts
Step 1: Simply add all the ingredients into a bowl and mix until smooth
Step 2: Pour the mix into a doughnut mould and bake at 180C (fan oven) for 12 minutes.
Step 3: Meanwhile make the Cinnamon sugar by mixing coconut sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
Step 4: Remove the doughnuts from the oven and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before lightly glazing with milk (this is so the cinnamon sugar sticks).
Step 5: Finally press the doughnuts down into the Cinnamon sugar.
👪 Recipe FAQ’S
Below are some answers to commonly asked questions for these Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts.
You can actually turn any plain gluten-free flour into self raising by adding 2 tsp of baking powder per 200g of plain flour. So in this recipe add 2 tsp of baking powder.
Depends how hungry you are haha!! Well I think they’re best eaten on the day of baking. But they will last a couple days in a sealed container at room temperate (they will go more dense the longer you leave them)
Absolutely! I would go for brown sugar. But I prefer the taste of Coconut sugar (plus keeps these refined sugar free) It is stocked in quite a few supermarkets now or in any health food shop.
I bought my silicone mould set on amazon (link in the top tips below) and they’re fantastic. I find silicone moulds the best as they’re really easy to extract once baked.
💭 Top Tips
- Try to choose a milk that isn’t too thick. I tend to use Rude Heath almond milk. Certain brands like Alpro are fairly thick and may need extra to get the right consistency
- Don’t overfill your doughnut moulds! See the step 2 photo above. Make sure to leave around 3-5mm from the top as they rise.
- Use a Silicone Doughnut Mould (affiliate link) as they’re really easy to take the doughnuts out once baked.
- Fancy a different topping on your doughnuts? How about a chocolate sauce?! Check out my 5 Ingredient Gluten-Free & Vegan Doughnuts.
🥡 Storage
Depends how hungry you are haha!! I honestly don’t think you will be able to stop once you try them!
But I think they’re best eaten on the day of baking served with a Homemade Hot Chocolate. They will last a couple days in a sealed container at room temperate. The longer you store them the denser they get (still taste great though).
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Gluten-Free Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts
Equipment
Ingredients
- 200 g gluten-free self raising flour, (see FAQ to make plain flour into self raising)
- 250 ml milk , (I use almond milk, see expert tips)
- 6 tbsp coconut sugar, (see FAQ for swaps)
- 4 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C (fan oven)
- To a mixing bowl add 200g gluten-free self raising flour, 250ml milk, 4 tbsp coconut sugar, 2 tsp of cinnamon and mix until a smooth batter forms
- Pour your mix into the doughnut moulds (don't overfill see notes below) and bake in the oven for 12-13 minutes
- Meanwhile in a bowl add 2 tbsp coconut sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon and mix to make your cinnamon sugar
- Remove the doughnuts from the oven and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes
- Now lightly glaze the smooth side of your doughnuts with milk (helps to make the cinnamon sugar stick) and gently press down into the bowl until covered
Absolutely delicious and so easy to make!
Thank you Liesl 🙂 so pleased you enjoyed them!
My husband spied this recipe, being gluten free it’s not often we come across simple treats so this was instantly screenshot ready for a weekend make!
Our daughter of 10 was super excited to fire up her recently purchased stand mixer and even she was blown away at just how simple the recipe was. We stuck with brown sugar (randomly have two open bags to use up!).
She measured out all the ingredients, popped it in the mix until she achieved a smooth consistency and then spread it across the silicone moulds! Bingo it literally took the time the oven took to preheat to make the doughnut batter.
12 minutes later our kitchen smelt or warm cinnamon (we are all big fans!) and they were popped out the moulds and left to cool. Later they were glazed with milk and slammed into the sugar mix and we were good to go! DELICIOUS! So quick, so simple, and so so tasty.
Try and catch them when they are still warm with a cup of coffee Thank you for this recipe, working our way through your blog!!!!
Thanks for the fantastic review Gemma 🙂 love it when the kids get involved!!
Absolutely delicious, having just found out I have to cut out dairy these were a perfect treat for a pick me up.
So pleased you enjoyed them Emily 🙂
Absolutely loved this recipe! So quick and easy to make and super delicious!
Thank you AnneMarie 🙂 glad you enjoyed them!
I saw the recipe on Instagram yesterday & immediately ordered donut moulds. I made these today – so so so easy and really tasty! Enjoyed by my husband and toddler too (I didn’t put the cinnamon sugar “topping” on for my toddler). I love that they’re only 4 ingredients too. I’m not GF or vegan so used regular SR flour and semi skimmed milk, plus I didn’t have any coconut sugar so used what I had. I really recommend these!
Thanks Cat 🙂 great to know they worked without being gluten or dairy free too!
Another brilliant recipe! Easy to follow and adapt to not gluten free. Kids love them.
Thanks Nicole 🙂 great to know they went well being non gluten-free too!
Delicious and so easy to make!
Thanks Nicky so pleased you enjoyed 🙂
These doughnuts are absolutely delicious! So easy to make and only 4 ingredients! They taste great and feel just like doughnuts without the fried texture.
I will be using this as my standard doughnut recipe from now on
Thanks Alison 🙂
So delish! My sister and I absolutely loved this recipe! I didn’t have a doughnuts tray so I just made them into bite sized semi spheres and they tasted great! Super quick and easy will 100% be making these again!
Great to hear they worked in a slightly different shape 🙂 thanks Kelsey!
I’ve made these yesterday and they were divine!! Thank you for creating these awesome recipes ☺️
Thanks Janice 🙂 so pleased you enjoyed them!