Apple Cinnamon Donuts

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar

  packed
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. allspice
• 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 apple

  peeled, and diced or grated (I used Gala apples)
• 3/4 cup salted butter

  melted (1 1/2 sticks)
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 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, sugars, baking powder, soda, salt,
  cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.
• 5 Stir well and set aside.
• 6 In a separate microwaveable bowl, melt butter.
• 7 Add applesauce, buttermilk, vanilla and diced apple.
• 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 butter.
• 15 Swirl in cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 16 Turn donut over and coat the bottom with butter.
• 17 Place donuts right-side-up in cinnamon-sugar mixture and swirl lightly in
  mixture.
• 18 Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over top of the top part of the donuts. (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 butter.
• 26 Remove donut to cinnamon-sugar mixture and dredge and swirl the butter-covered
  top into the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 27 Turn donuts over and dip the bottom in butter.
• 28 Then put the bottom of the donut in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 29 Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over the top.
• 30 Turn donut over and coat the bottom. 
• 31 Repeat the process about three more times.
• 32 Each time more cinnamon-sugar will adhere to the donuts.
• 33 Gently shake off any excess cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 34 Place donuts on wire rack to cool completely.
• 35 Serve.

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