Vegan Chocolate Beetroot Doughnut Recipe
Rich, earthy, chocolatey goodness in doughnut form. What’s not to love about these vegan chocolate beetroot doughnuts?
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Total Time: 35 minutes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 6
Rating:
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients
Method
Ingredients
(Servings: 6)
- For the chocolate beetroot doughnuts:
- 15 15 g plain white flour
- 5 5 g cocoa powder
- 0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 Tbsp cornflour
- 0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 tsp baking powder
- 0.083333333333333 0.083333333333333 tsp baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 Tbsp ground flaxseed
- 19.666666666667 19.666666666667 ml almond milk
- 18.833333333333 18.833333333333 g golden unrefined caster sugar
- 0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 tsp cider vinegar
- 0.5 0.5 Tbsp rapeseed oil
- 0.083333333333333 0.083333333333333 tsp vanilla extract
- 12.5 12.5 g loosely packed grated beetroot
- For the glaze:
- 0.5 0.5 Tbsp beetroot juice
- 20.833333333333 20.833333333333 g icing sugar, sifted
- Chocolate chips to decorate
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180c/360f and grease a 6 hole doughnut pan and set aside.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, cornflour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl.
- In a separate mixing bowl whisk together the flaxseed, almond milk, sugar, vinegar, oil and vanilla.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and add in the wet ingredients, partially mix, and then fold in the grated beetroot.
- Either scoop the batter into a piping bag and pipe it into doughnut pan, or carefully spoon into the pan.
- Bake for about 8-10 minutes until a skewer inserted into one of the doughnuts comes out clean.
- Cool for about 5 minutes in the pan before carefully removing and placing on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once fully cooled whisk the beetroot juice and icing sugar together and spoon a little over the top of each doughnut, sprinkle with chocolate chips and allow the icing to set.
Prefer doughnuts with a more classic flavour?
Try these vegan custard-filled doughnuts!
