These baked apple cider donuts are rich, soft, and filled with spiced apple flavor! Topped with a creamy apple glaze, they almost look too good to eat! They’re the perfect addition to any fall get-together.
Prep Time1 hourhr
Cook Time12 minutesmins
glazing10 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr22 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: apple cider donuts recipe, baked apple cider donut recipe
Reduce the apple cider to ½ cup. Bring the cider to a boil in a small saucepan, once it has been brought to a rolling boil, reduce heat and let simmer, uncovered for about 30-50 minutes. Stirring occasionally.
Once you have reduced your cider to ½ cup, set aside to cool and shred your apple. Peel a large apple and shred it with a cheese grater, you will need to squeeze out some excess juice.
Preheat your oven to 350℉ and prepare your donut pan by spraying with nonstick spray.
In a bowl whisk together your flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, clove, allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, and salt.
In a separate bowl whisk together your butter, egg, brown sugar, whole milk, vanilla, and shredded apple.
Pour your wet ingredients and reduced apple cider into your dry ingredients. Whisk everything together until well combined, no clumps should remain.
Pour your batter into your prepared donut pan. You can use a piping bag with the tip cut off to pipe the batter into the pan, filling each cavity about halfway.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. To check doneness, tap the top of a donut, if it bounces back it is ready. Remove the donuts from oven and allow to cool in the pan 2-3 minutes.
Remove donuts from pan and allow to finish cooling on a wire rack before glazing.
For the glaze
In a bowl, mix together your powdered sugar, apple cider mix, vanilla, and milk.
Take your cooled donuts and dip one side into glaze, allowing any excess glaze to drip off back into the bowl.
Optional: Dust with cinnamon
Notes
If you overfill the donut cavities your donuts will spill out and be misshapen, be careful to only fill half full.
I glazed only the tops of the donuts, you can glaze the whole donut if you’d like!