EASY VEGAN COFFEE CAKE DONUTS

o, this is one of those unexpected recipes that inadvertently came about out of what was supposed to be something totally different. This past week I was feelin’ something simple and cinnamon-y. Perhaps as a residual effect of my Best Ever Vegan Cinnamon Rolls recipe that I put out to you guys on Tuesday. I decided that I was going to work on a vegan snickerdoodle cookie recipe. I was stoked. How hard can a cinnamon sugar cookie be?

My god, guys. Several dozen flat, crispy, weird, over baked, under baked, all kinds of baked, attempts later, I officially gave up on snickerdoodles. For now at least. It’s been blisteringly hot this past week in the YYC area (which has been great, hello sunshine!), but I felt like the cookies started baking as soon as I took the dough out of the damn fridge.
Le sigh. Isn’t it frustrating when something that should be simple ends up being so terribly difficult? At first, I resorted to throwing a temper tantrum after every failed attempt, but I eventually realized that I should take a step back and just let it be. It’s not my time for snickerdoodles, and that’s okay! I will be back for them eventually!

Being new to the food blog game, it’s hard to not to be upset when recipes just don’t work out, and it’s hard not to compare yourself to other blogs that have been doing this for years and appear to create so much heavenly food goodness so easily! I reminded myself to not compare my step 1 to someone else’s step 10.

Ingredients

• Donuts:
• Dry Ingredients:
• 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• Wet Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup dairy free milk, unsweetened
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 flax egg (1 tbs ground flax + 3 tbs warm water)
• 4 tsp coconut oil, melted
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• Cinnamon Streusel Topping:
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 tbs coconut oil, melted
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• Glaze:
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp dairy free milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F
2. In a small bowl, combine 1 tbs ground flax with 3 tbs warm water. Set aside to thicken
3. ........................................

for full instructions please see : sweetlikecocoa.com

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