Soft and delicious Apple Cider donuts that are cakey, baked and infused with homemade apple cider. Coated in cinnamon sugar with a touch of apple spice, these will be your favorite donut recipe!
The first step, which is the most time consuming is reducing down the Homemade Apple Cider. This means simmering it over medium low heat for about 20 minutes until you're left with 1/2 cup.
Once it's reduced down, you can place it in a freezer for 10 minutes to flash cool it, or in you fridge for 30 minutes. You may alternatively make this days in advance, and use the reduced Homemade Apple Cider on drinks and desserts.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray your donut pan with avocado oil spray.
Hold the bag at the top where the seal is, and like a cone shape where the pointing edge is the cut off slit of the bag start pushing the batter out of the bag.
Fill the donut pan 2/3 of the way up because the donuts will puff during baking. Depending on the quality of your donut pan, you may choose to spray it with oil or not before piping the batter.
You can fid these readily available online and in stores. Since they won't be used except occasionally, you don't need to invest in an expensive one.
If you want a more DIY solution, you can use a regular standard size muffin pan. Use regular aluminum foil cut up into a square about 5 inches. fold the foil in half and coil it to make a round. Seal the ends to create the hole in the donut shape.
Now place the rounded aluminum coil in the center of each cavity of the muffin pan to create a donut shape.Spray the pan with avocado oil spray and press down the foil so it sticks to the pan. Pipe the donut batter around the foil as you would for a donut pan.
Our favorite thing to serve with this recipe is our homemade Apple Butter. Be sure to read that post for tips on making your apple butter in the crockpot, stove or instant pot.