VEGAN WHITE CHOCOLATE CARDAMOM DONUTS

In collaboration with Kaslink AITO. April 30 and May 1 are special days in Finland. It’s when we celebrate Vappu – the biggest country wide carnival party of the year. We celebrate Labour Day too, but for me and most Finns the party is all about the arrival of spring and start of the picnic season. The traditional sweet menu of the day might include bubbly drinks like mead or sparkling wine, funnel cake and donuts. I’m starting Vappu celebrations already today with these delicious vegan white chocolate cardamom donuts.

These donuts are made in collaboration with Kaslink AITO, a Finnish company producing a variety of amazing oat-based products. I use all of these products regularly, and the one I used in these donuts is a very special one: Oat Drink Barista – oat drink perfect for coffee or matcha latte but is really lovely in baked goods too. It’s naturally sweet, thicker and creamier than normal oat drinks.

To make these donuts special, I added melted vegan white chocolate to the batter. The lovely caramelly flavor and ground cardamom is a great match, especially with a sweet berrylicious white chocolate raspberry glaze!

These donuts are cake like in texture, super soft and fluffy – not dense at all. Because they’re very soft it’s really important to let the donuts chill properly before dipping them in the glaze.

Happy spring time from the forest!

♥ Tiina

ps If donuts are not your thing, I recommend trying these popular cake recipes from Myberryforest:

Vegan peanut butter and jelly vanilla cream cake

Vegan chocolate cake with raspberry cream

Vegan white chocolate cardamom donuts

These fluffy and soft vegan white chocolate cardamom donuts are delicious little treats with a lovely white chocolate raspberry glaze.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine vegan

Servings 20 donuts (about)

Ingredients

  

White chocolate cardamom donuts

• 3/4 cups + 2 tbsp Kaslink AITO Barista oat drink (200 ml)
• 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 2,8 oz / 80 g vegan white chocolate
• 2 tbsp almond or cashew butter
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 cup / ~130 g all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup almond flour Note: this is not the same as almond meal. Almond flour is made from blanched almonds and is more flour like than almond meal.
• 1/2 cup coconut sugar
• 1,5 tsp ground cardamom
• 1,5 tsp baking powder
• 0,5 tsp baking soda

White chocolate-raspberry glaze

• 2,8 oz / 80 g vegan white chocolate
• ~1/3 cups / 1,4 oz (40 g) raspberries
• 1 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 356 F / 180 C and grease donut pan.
• Mix oat drink and apple cider vinegar.
• Melt white chocolate in a water bath and mix with almond butter and coconut oil.
• Combine all dry ingredients: flours, sugar, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Add oat drink-acv mixture and white chocolate mixture and mix batter until it's smooth.
• Fill donut pan with batter (but not to the brim, because the donuts rise in the oven) and bake for about 15-18 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean and the donuts are nicely browned on top.
• Remove from donut pan after ~5 minutes and let chill on a cooling rack.
• Melt glaze ingredients in a water bath. Remove raspberry seeds with a sieve and let the glaze cool for a while for it to get thicker (in the fridge). 
• Dip donuts in glaze and decorate with sprinkles. Enjoy these fun little treats!

Notes

This donut recipe is for about 20 donuts. My donut pan is for 12 donuts so I baked 12 first and then the rest. If you have two donut pans, you can bake them in the oven at the same time - just make sure to have the correct oven settings for baking and check out the baking time (it might differ if for example baking in the convection setting of the oven).

Grease your donut pan well!

Keyword cardamom, donuts, raspberry, white chocolate