Now, this is no joke – this is literally THE BEST doughnut recipe! I’d made them before without using doughnut trays, which did taste amazing but the shape just makes them! If you can, get your hands on a doughnut tray.. but if not, I previously used a cupcake tray to make round-ish doughnuts. The batter may seem slightly runny but it makes super soft, bouncy classic doughnuts and you’d NEVER even know they were gluten free! Also, feel free to coat them in chocolate rather than the glaze in the recipe like the kids have done at school (see below photos)!
Ingredients
- 200g Gluten Free/ Rice Flour
- 40g Glutinous Rice Flour
- 1½ Tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ Tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- ¼ Tsp Cream of Tartar
- ¼ Tsp Salt
- 80g Caster Sugar
- 150g Unsalted Butter
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 Small Eggs, separated
- 300ml Milk
For the icing:
- 360g Icing sugar
- 3-4 Tbsp milk
- Sprinkles
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180ᵒC. Lightly grease two 12 hole or four 6 hole (3″) doughnut trays – I only have one 6 hole tray, so I make them in batches.
- In a saucepan, gently warm the milk (don’t boil), remove from the heat and add in the butter to allow it to melt. Stir in the vanilla and egg yolks.
- Whisk the egg whites up to soft peaks (until you can lift the whisk out and the whites make peaks that fall over).
- Stir together the gluten free flour, glutinous rice flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the centre.
- Pour the liquid from the saucepan into the centre of the well and stir into the flour.
- Fold in the egg whites using a spatula until the batter is smooth with no lumps of egg white.
- Spoon or pipe the batter into the doughnut trays until ¾ full without covering the middle point and bake in the oven for 11-12 minutes until golden and bouncy to touch.
- Meanwhile, use a fork to mix together the icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of milk at a time to make the icing – the icing needs to be thin enough to dip the doughnuts into but not too runny that it all slips off – add more milk if necessary.
- Dip the doughnuts into the icing, decorate with cake sprinkles and place on a wire rack to set.
