Baked Coconut Donuts
 
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Welcome to coconut heaven! Cakey, moist, and perfectly sweet, these baked donuts are a fun breakfast or dessert. Vegan!
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 10 donuts
Ingredients
  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 1½ cup desiccated coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
  • ⅔ cup maple syrup (warmed if stored in the fridge)
  • 1 cup coconut milk (regular or lite)
  • ½ cup coconut butter OR coconut oil, melted*
  • 1 Tbs. lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
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  • Glaze:
  • 1 cup confectioner's sugar
  • 3 Tbs. coconut milk
  • ½ tsp. lemon juice
  • Optional: ¼ tsp. coconut extract
  • Coconut Icing:
  • ¼ cup melted coconut butter
  • ¼ cup confectioner's sugar
  • 1-2 Tbs. melted coconut oil
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  • Optional: ¼ cup shredded coconut for topping
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, salt, and desiccated coconut.
  3. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the maple syrup, coconut milk, melted coconut butter, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until combined. Transfer dough into a large plastic bag or piping bag. Cut off one corner about 1 inch wide, then squeeze the dough into a circle in each donut well.
  5. Bake 19-21 mins until tops are dry and golden. Allow to cool in pan 10 mins, then flip out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
  6. Whisk together glaze ingredients or icing ingredients. Add more coconut milk to thin the glaze OR melted coconut oil to thin the icing. DO NOT add liquids other than oil to the icing because they will cause the icing to seize up.
  7. When the donuts are cool, place them and the cooling rack over a sheet of wax paper for easy cleanup. Then drizzle the glaze or dip the donuts in the icing. Sprinkle tops with coconut shreds, if desired.
  8. Enjoy with a hot cup of coffee!
Notes
* To melt coconut butter/oil, remove the cap and place the glass jar in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir if possible, then heat up in 15-second increments until smooth. Be careful with the coconut butter because it burns easily!

Coconut butter is blended up coconut meat, whereas coconut oil is just the oil. I used the coconut butter in my dough to reduce the amount of refined oil and increase the coconut flavor, but the final results are similar. Feel free to use coconut oil if that's all you have on hand or don't want to splurge on coconut butter (but it's soooo good!).

I store these in an air-tight container in the fridge. Before serving, heat each donut in the microwave for 30 seconds or set out and allow to return to room temp.
Recipe by Daily Dose of Greens at https://dailydoseofgreens.com/2020/04/08/baked-coconut-donuts/