Gluten-Free Snickerdoodle Doughnuts with Cinnamon Chips

Last week my oven broke. I didn’t discover that it wasn’t working until I went to put snickerdoodle blondie batter in to bake and noticed that it didn’t preheat. My husband took a look at the oven and decided that he needed a new part before he could fix it. So I had raw batter and disappointed children.

I pulled out the waffle maker and made a batch of waffle cookies. They were good, but very crumbly, so I pulled out the Donut Maker. My daughter declared the snickerdoodle doughnuts the best doughnuts EVER. However, I am pretty sure that anybody could get that reaction if they put cookie dough in a doughnut maker; it wouldn’t even matter what flavor cookies you were making. I thought the doughnuts were good, but in my opinion, they were too sweet and too oily.

I decided that snickerdoodle doughnuts were a good idea, but I wanted to modify the recipe to make them a little less like a tire shaped cookie and a little more like a doughnut. These doughnuts are only slightly less indulgent than cookies and should still be regarded as a dessert rather than a breakfast item!

I made the batter and then sprinkled the cinnamon sugar on top before I started baking the doughnuts:

The doughnut maker only makes 5 doughnuts at a time and this recipe makes 18 doughnuts. Before putting in the last batch I noticed that I still had quite a bit of cinnamon-sugar left so I sprinkled some in the bottom as wll as sprinkling it over the top:

Needless to say, the last batch was my daughter’s favorite!

Gluten-Free Snickerdoodle Doughnuts with Cinnamon Chips

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

25 mins

Total time

35 mins

 

Author: Alea

Recipe type: Dessert

Serves: 18

Ingredients

• ¾ cup white rice flour
• ½ cup tapioca flour
• ¼ cup potato starch
• ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• ½ cup softened butter (I used coconut oil)
• ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon milk (I used almond milk)
• 1 cup Cinnamon Chips

Topping:

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, mix flours, potato starch, xanthan gum, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
2. Add egg, milk, butter, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed just until mixed.
3. Stir in cinnamon chips.
4. In a small bowl combine sugar and cinnamon.
5. If using a donut maker, fill the bottom portion until it is just full. Sprinkle sugar over each of the doughnuts. Close the lid and cook for 7 - 9 minutes or until the donuts are brown. Remove the doughnuts and allow them to finish cooling on a cooling rack.

Notes

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My kids enjoying snickerdoodle doughnuts at a Reno Aces game.