Happy Friday!!
We are starting our holiday weekend with these babies…another mint chocolate combo, we just love it!
Pure2raw recipe: Chocolate Mint Cake Donut (gluten-free, vegan, soy-free, low in sugar)
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup brown rice flour (any gf or regular flour)
- 5 tbsp flax meal
- 5 tbsp cocoa
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup xyitol (or sugar)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 3/4 cup coconut kefir (or buttermilk)
- 1 tbsp vanilla (we use alcohol free, so adjust accordingly)
Directions: Place all ingredients into bowl and stir together. Make sure all wet ingredients are at room temperature. Scoop donut batter into your donut pan. Let cool in pan for a few minutes before taking out of pan. *if you do not have a donut pan you may use a muffin pan or mini bundt cake pan.
Bake donuts at 375 degree for about 14 minutes.
Serving – 6 donuts
*We have made these twice, one with carob and one with chocolate and both work!
Mint Glaze:
- 1/4 cup agave
- 1/2 cup coconut butter
- 1/2 cup coconut milk (or milk of choice)
- 1/2 tsp spirulina
- 1/2 tsp mint extract
Directions: Place all ingredients into blender and whip together.
Once chocolate cake donuts are cooled, dip into mint glaze.
A little messy, but that is the fun part.
These chocolate mint baked donuts tasted just like cake!
*Just a side note, these donuts are a little delicate, so be careful
Do not think I need to tell you how good these were 
We have something fun planned for tomorrow and it involves someone special while enjoying something we love. Any guesses?
Twins Question: What are you doing for Memorial weekend?
Till next time,
P2R twins
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These look so delicious! I love the green icing.
Nicole I know we just loved the green contrast with the chocolate!
O boy…anything involving coconut and I’m in. Yum!
us too Casey!
YUM!!!! These look fabulous. Keep it up. I love the photos too. Mmmm. Mmmmmm.
Thank you so much Juli!!!
Hmmm…wine tasting tomorrow perhaps?! I can’t wait to hear about whatever it is!!
haha yes Gabriela, you know us well
ohmygosh!!! I am bookmarking this!!!!! I LOVE chocolate mint-absolute fav! But…. i don’t have a donut pan….other ideas?
Alex a cupcake or mini bundt cake pan would work
I’ve just recently discovered that I do really love the chocolate mint combo (for some reason I thought I didnt). These look delish! Have a GREAT weekend! I can’t wait for lots of relaxing
Natalie – ya our mom hates mint chocolate too
Those are so beautiful–that perfect green-on-black coloring–and ingredients to feel good about too! I don’t have a donut pan, but maybe I can improvise with muffin cups, stick something in the middle!
love
Ela
I’m having coffee right now…these would be perfect with it! I hope you two have a great weekend.
Those are so cute and I love the green. I always use spinach, but spirulina is genius!
Mama Pea – we just love spirulina!
love the juxtaposition of colors, textures and flavors in these!
Those sound amazing! Love the colour of the green icing as well.
Well, I hope I’m making these donuts this weekend. However, mine will have to be chocolate mint muffins since I have no donut pans. I’m sure they’ll be just as good, but not nearly as pretty.
aww Heather yes they will still be beautiful!
xoxo
/drool how goes the sugar thing? are you guys having it regularly now or just in moderation? i’m grilling beef for memorial day! so ready to enjoy sunshine and walks!
Melissa just in moderation, some days we have a little more sugar than others, but still trying to eat low sugar.
Where can I find coconut butter? so that I can make these
Danielle, most health food stores should sell coconut butter, if you can not find it coconut oil should be ok, or you can make your own coconut butter – by places coconut flakes in a food processor or blender and blend till creamy. this process can take a few minutes to make the flakes creamy but if you keep going it should make coconut butter.
they look great and i love the MINTY green dippage!
I want these NOW!!! I wanted these for my birthday cake dinner!
aww Katie we will have to remake them just for you and your birthday!
ooooooohhh! i have all the ingredients except the kefir…..but yay!!!! i’m heading into the kitchen now!
Texture looks good! Make the green a little less strong, can you make it look a little bit creamier? Still looks great!
haha thanks sis, we will try better next time
these donuts are killing me! well killing me because I am not eating one right now and I wish I was.
I made these and they rocked! So awesome, thanks!
I drool every time you post donuts! Mmmmm
OMG…I wanna eat my screen….
I have these cooling in the pan now. Tried to make the frosting & used regular whole organic milk & coconut oil as I didn’t have butter, but it would not come together.
Rebecca you might try a binding agent to hold it together. Oil can be hard to make frosting sometimes we have noticed. I will try adding in a lecithin, or guar or xanthan gum to help hold it together. Hopefully that helps, or might even try adding in a ‘dry’ ingredient like coconut flour, soy flour to see if that helps.
made these today for the kids and they were a SUPER hit. They are definitely fragile donuts but I found dipping the cooled donuts into a basic glaze then letting the glaze set really gave them stability. I was so happy that these are gluten free but above that, that they contain flax and all the kids had no clue. Try to get them to eat flax meal in anything else and no go but these did it !
Linda so happy to hear this! Yes a little fragile but worth it! So glad to hear that the kids loved it
YAY
Hi these look amazing! as does everything on the website!
I have a bit of a silly question.. do you know what type of camera you use to take the photos.. i am hoping to buy a camera that can capture the same depth as yours!
Hope to hear back!
Thank youu
Thank you Carly check out this post here about our camera – http://www.pure2raw.com/2011/09/what-camera-to-use-for-photos/ and we have done a few post on photography – here http://www.pure2raw.com/category/photography/ And we hope to continue to share our tips for food photography
Hello Carly thank you for your sweet comment, we have a few post on photography here http://www.pure2raw.com/category/photography/ and more about our camera here – http://www.pure2raw.com/2011/09/what-camera-to-use-for-photos/ Hope this helps!
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