These easy homemade baked vegan doughnuts are topped with a variety of delicious vegan glazes! Perfect for breakfast or a sweet treat.
It was my first time making and eating baked doughnuts and they are actually very tasty. The texture is similar to a fried cake doughnut, but lighter.
If you rather like a yeasted doughnut, try my new recipe for Baked Vegan Yeast Doughnuts.
Baked Vegan Doughnuts
These easy homemade baked vegan doughnuts are topped with a variety of delicious vegan glazes! Perfect for breakfast or a sweet treat.
Servings: 10 regular-sized donuts
Ingredients
- Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. scant nutmeg
- 1 dash cinnamon
- Wet Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup soy milk
- 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Egg replacer for 1 egg or 2 Tbsp. cinnamon apple sauce
- ¼ cup vegan margarine
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients with a whisk to mix thoroughly. Combine the wet ingredients in a small sauce pan over medium-low heat and mix until the margarine is just melted. This mixture should be just slightly warm to the touch.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry and mix until just combined. It should form a very soft dough.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop dough into a slightly greased nonstick doughnut pan. Smooth out the top of each dough with your fingers―this will make for more even, prettier doughnuts but isn’t crucial.
- Bake for 12 minutes. They should not be browned on top, but a toothpick will come out clean. Invert the hot pan over a cutting board or cooling rack to release the doughnuts. Allow to cool completely before decorating.
- Top with a vegan glaze - see note
Notes:
- Makes 20 mini-doughnuts or 10 regular-sized doughnuts
- Check out my vegan doughnuts glazes
- Recipe from PETA
Did you make this recipe? I hope you love it.
Please let me know how it turned out! Leave a comment below and share a picture on Instagram with the hashtag #littleswissbaker.
More Baked Vegan Doughnuts
If you like lemons, try this recipe for my Lemon Baked Doughnuts.
Hello Little Swiss Baker,
These doughnuts look amazing. Could I use flax seed instead of egg replacer or apple sauce for this recipe? Thanks in advance.
Thank you Aline,
yes you can use flax seed as an egg replacer. I used one for my Lemon Baked Doughnuts and it worked well.
http://www.littleswissbaker.com/vegan-lemon-baked-doughnuts/
These doughnuts came out so great ! Used your regular recipe and the lemon ! Thank you so much for sharing this !
Thank you Mikelle, glad you liked both recipes.
could you use olive oil or coconut oil in place of the vegan margarine?
Hi Eunice, I haven’t tried the recipe with olive oil or coconut oil, but it might work. But it will change the flavour a little bit. I would use coconut oil, which is naturally solid at room temperature like the vegan margarine.
Hi. Can I leave out the vinegar?
Hi Estrella,
I’m sure it will work without the vinegar. The vinegar is used to make vegan buttermilk. You could also use lemon or lime juice.
These look great! Could I substitute the soy milk for another plant based milk?
Hi Samantha, I personally prefer soymilk, but I used almond milk before for this recipe and it worked well.
Made these and didn’t love them, I’m not sure what I did wrong, but they turned out really mushy and soft and had too strong a nutmeg flavor. Would not make again.
Sorry to hear
I make these for my vegan grandchildren and they love them! One of their favorite requests. Thank you for your great recipes.
Hi Carmella, thank you. Glad your grandchildren love them.
Thank you so much for thinking of the vegans. Although I did not use your recipe as is, I put my own spin on it, but the base you provided was was very helpful. The recipe turned out amazing. I even did my own take on the chocolate glaze using the base you provided on your donut glazes page. Can’t thank you enough for a vegan recipe. I am more stunned that I was able to make these donuts without burning something. The recipe leaves some leeway too which is helpful for someone like me who is not the best baker
Thank you. I’m glad you liked the recipes. More vegan recipes are coming soon.
Hi Fabio! My daughter and I made these amazing donuts for National Donut Day here in the U.S. and they came out great! I love your blog. I lived in Lugano for 4 years when I was in college, and I miss the local bakeries so much.
https://bakingnotbanking.blogspot.com/2018/08/homemade-donuts.html
Thank you Carla. The bakeries in Ticino are amazing.
Could this recipe be made gluten free? Would it suffice to sub 1 cup of all purpose gf flour?
Thanks
Hi Bree, I have no experience baking with gluten free flour. Give it a try and follow the instruction of the flour to find out the right ratio.
These were amazing! I followed the recipe exactly and worked fantastic. My kids loooved them ! Thank you. We made the vegan chocolate glaze for them too which was really yum as well!
My son (age 10) is allergic to dairy, eggs & nuts. It makes him sad when I marvel over the items offered in a bakery. I finally decided to try making donuts for him. I tested 3 recipes and he voted yours the best! It’s my go to recipe. I’ve already made a few batches with different toppings! Thank you so much!
Thank you May
Can i use olive oil instead of butter?
Yes you can, since the recipe calls for melted butter this shouldn’t be a problem.