Baked carrot cake donuts: A delicious twist from Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking

Hi Bold Bakers! I am really happy that spring is here again because it's the time to make carrot cake. Today we are making baked carrot cake donuts and best of all, you do not need a donut tin to make them. So let's get baking. Before we make our donuts, this recipe can be found on BiggerBolderBaking.com and as always if you haven't already done so, make sure you tap that subscribe button. Okay, let's measure out our wet ingredients into this jug. Add in your milk, vinegar, honey, vanilla extract. Egg, grated carrot. And melted butter. And then whisk them all together really well. So the reason we add vinegar into our baking is because it actually tenderizes the flour and gives you really lovely soft baked goods. You can use white vinegar, even an apple cider vinegar will work well. Okay so that's our wet ingredients, now we're gonna mix together our dry ingredients. Add in your flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and a little bit of nutmeg, And then whisk them all together. So in a carrot cake cinnamon and ginger are really really important but if you don't have ground nutmeg you can always just leave it out. Okay nicely mixed up, now we're gonna add in our wet ingredients. So now with a whisk we're gonna gently mix this together, now you don't want to beat it because you don't want to toughen the flour, we want nice soft donuts in the end. So if you're the kind of person that likes raisins or toasted walnuts in their carrot cake then feel free to throw a few in there. Raisins will actually make them really nice and moist and then walnuts will actually give To give them a nice crunchy texture. Okay so that's our carrot cake batter, now we're gonna talk tin. Like I said you don't need a store bought tin because we made our own. Now I made these in a previous video for chocolate donuts, and all you have to do is get a little bit of foil, stick your finger in the middle and create that exact same shape that you get in a store bought tin. This is much cheaper and it's actually really easy to make. So now all you want to do is just get a pastry brush with a little bit of flavorless oil on it, like canola oil, vegetable oil, and then just grease your tin and do this quite well because you want your donuts to just pop right out. So now I put my carrot cake batter into a piping bag because it makes getting it into the tin so much easier and less mess. You want to fill your tin around a third of the way up because they will rise a little bit. So if you're new to using piping bags, I've got a video on my website of how you can fill them and it just makes it really easy. Okay, once they're all filled, these guys are ready for the oven. Now you want to bake them off at 400 degrees Fahrenheit, or 200 degrees Celsius, for roughly 10, maybe 12 minutes, or until they're golden brown. So our donuts take hardly any time to bake, so while they're in the oven we're gonna make our cream cheese frosting, it's really easy and it's delicious. So in a small bowl I have some melted butter, now into this I'm going to add in some room temperature cream cheese, and I'm just gonna whisk that in, then I'm gonna add some icing sugar and some vanilla extract, and all you want to do is just whisk all these ingredients together. So there you go, really easy frosting, as you can see it is nice and smooth, this is gonna go so well with our carrot cake donuts. Now I can smell them, I think they're nearly ready, so I've got my bare hands and I'm gonna take them out. So in no time at all, our donuts are ready. You can tell that they're perfectly baked because they're firm on top and they're golden brown. So when your donuts are still nice and warm, we're gonna peel away the tin foil. Now just wait and see how well this works. Peel it off down the sides, and then just remove the middle, and there you have your donut. Just look at how great that is, and you didn't need one of those donut tins. Now while they're warm, keep on going and take them all out. These little donuts are looking lovely, now I'm just gonna finish them off by dipping them in our frosting, giving it a little bit of a swirl, and then pulling it out. Now it's very common to decorate carrot cake with some toasted coconut, that's what I have here. I'm just gonna sprinkle a little bit along the top, it also will add nice texture to your donuts. And if you don't want to use coconut, you can always use toasted chopped walnuts. So this icing is pretty thick, so if you want to drizzle it over your donuts, you can too. Once you add on the coconut you can really start to see these little donuts take shape. Now these are definitely best enjoyed warm, oh yeah, yup yup yup. If you like carrot cake, you are going to love these, they're absolutely delicious, and the cream cheese frosting on top really compliments the carrot. Yummy. If you haven't had carrot cake before, it's like a sweet cake, and the carrot isn't very savory, it all kind of works together. And then with the cream cheese frosting on top, these are absolutely delicious. I really hope you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe to my channel, and I will see you back here next week for more Bigger Bolder Baking.