Craving Gluten Free Donuts?
Tips to help.

Driving by a donut shop is a killer on Sunday mornings. We used to go out for a hot drink and a yummy donut BC ( before celiac). Now that I am living AC (after celiac), those mornings are over. Ah well, no use crying over spilt milk. I think I'll pour myself a glass and sit here and eat my homemade donuts.

Tip # 1  Start with Cake Donuts

It is easier to make cake donuts than yeast donuts, so start here for your first endeavor.

Make sure your donut batter is wet and sticky. You should not be able to roll it out easily, in fact, you really do not want to roll it out at all. Take your dough and place it in a pastry bag and pipe out your donuts onto parchment paper and bake. You could also fry them if you don't mind the extra calories.

To bake, use a special donut pan to help them retain there shape or buy one of the new mini donut makers and pop out lots of cute little donuts just like the ones at the fair. See my video on how to use the mini donut maker.

Tip #2  Don't shape them at all!

There is no reason to shape your cake donuts unless you just want to be able to gaze upon something that looks like the donuts you used to eat. You can drop teaspoons of the batter into hot oil and fry them up. They will look like that famous donut shops small holes. You can even coat them in powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, a sugar glaze or a chocolate glaze. They will look so much like the real thing it will probably fool everyone.

Tip #3 Use parchment paper for yeast donuts

Okay! You are ready to try your hand at yeast donuts. How do you transfer a sticky, wet dough into hot oil without making a major mess and still have it come out looking like a donut?

Use squares of parchment to pipe your donut dough on. When the oil is hot, just drop in the whole thing, paper and all until the donut cooks on one side. Then pull off the paper with tongs , flip the donut over and fry on the other side.

If your donut shape is a little lopsided, you can try and fix it by wetting your hands and coaxing it back into shape. I don't bother. Hey, these are homemade, they are not perfect! I'm just lucky I found time to even make these. I'm not worried about appearances. As long as they taste good, no one in my house cares.

Tip #4    Gently toss the coatings on.

Place your sugar type coatings in a large bowl and gently toss your hot donuts in the mixture to coat.

For glazes, place your hot donuts on a wire rack that is set on top of a piece of parchment or waxed paper. Put your glaze in a wide shallow bowl. Gently grasp the donut and place the top of it in the glaze. This will coat the top for you.

If you want the whole donut covered, drop your donut in the glaze, turn over with a fork and gently lift out and place on the wire rack to drip and set up.

 Check out the following donut recipes:

Poppy Seed donuts

Pumpkin Spice donuts