Snickerdoodle Donuts

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/4 cup salted butter

  melted (1/2 stick)
• 3/4 cup buttermilk

  or soured milk
• 1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract

  tablespoon NOT teaspoon
• 1 cup Hershey's cinnamon chips
• 1 cup salted butter

  melted (2 sticks)
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 400º.
• 2 Prepare donut tins by spraying well with cooking spray.
• 3 Set aside.
• 4 In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, salt and
  cinnamon.
• 5 Stir well and set aside.
• 6 In a separate microwaveable bowl, melt butter.
• 7 Add applesauce, buttermilk, vanilla and cinnamon chips.
• 8 Whisk well to combine.
• 9 Add wet mixture to dry mixture and stir just until moistened.
• 10 Transfer ingredients to a zip lock bag (without the “stand and fill” bottom).
• 11 Cut off a corner and pipe the donut dough into the donut tins a little over ¾
  full.
• 12 Bake in preheated oven for about 9-10 minutes or until donuts test done with a
  toothpick.
• 13 Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.
• 14 Dip top of donuts in bowl with melted butter.
• 15 Sprinkle with Cinnamon-sugar mixture and pat down slightly.
• 16 Turn donut over and coat the bottom with melted butter.
• 17 Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over the bottom part of the donuts.
• 18 (I just used my fingers to do this).
• 19 Turn donut over.
• 20 Sprinkle the bottom of the donut with more cinnamon-sugar.
• 21 Do this a total of four times (for the top and four times for the bottom), until
  the mixture adheres well and the donuts are really well covered with the
  cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 22 Place on wire racks to cool completely. 
• 23 Melt butter in a microwaveable bowl; set aside.  
• 24 Combine granulated sugar and cinnamon in another bowl.
• 25 Dip top of donuts in melted butter.
• 26 Sprinkle the top with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 27 Turn donuts over and dip the bottom in melted butter.
• 28 Then put the bottom of the donut in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 29 Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over the bottom.
• 30 Turn donut over and coat the top again; then repeat and coat the bottom.
• 31 Repeat the process about three more times.
• 32 Each time, more cinnamon-sugar will adhere to the donuts. Place donuts on wire
  rack to cool completely.
• 33 Serve.

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