Valentine’s is quickly approaching. Impress your loved ones with these easy, baked Gluten Free Red Velvet Doughnuts topped with cream cheese frosting.
By now you should know, I love baked doughnuts. Since stopping by the doughnut shop on the way home isn’t an option, the only real answer is to make your own. And by investing in a simple doughnut pan (or even those little doughnut baking machines), you can have fresh gluten free doughnuts ready in less than half an hour.
This recipe uses gel colour to get the bright red colour without the added liquid that bottled food colouring would add. If you don’t want to use it, you are free to omit it, you just won’t have a reddish hue to the doughnuts. From my understanding, red velvet USED to be achieved when cocoa powder and buttermilk were mixed – there would be a chemical reaction that would result in a red colour. However, today the cocoa powder is made differently, and it no longer reacts with buttermilk the same way. You can read more about that process HERE if interested. Today, in order to make anything “red velvet”, colour needs to be added to the batter – either artificial or natural (beetroot powder may give these a slight reddish colour).
Impress your loved ones with these easy, baked Gluten Free Red Velvet Doughnuts topped with cream cheese frosting.
Gluten Free Red Velvet Doughnuts
Ingredients
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Instructions
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Cindy @ Hun... What's for Dinner? says
These donuts look fantastic Jeanine. Great for Valentine’s day!
Jeanine says
Thanks, Cindy!
Shirley LeBoeuf says
I will be making these for a Bake Sale, and if the are as good as your Citrus Chiffon Cake, then we are in for a real treat, that cake was the best that I have eaten since having to be Gluten Free, I have passed the recipe on to friends with every confidence that they will love it too…Thank you for all your great recipes and hard.
Jeanine says
So glad to hear that you loved the chiffon cake, Shirley! Woohoo!!
Drea says
I am totally focused on making an awesome gluten free treat for my families holiday breakfast! This is exactly what I was looking for! Cannot wait to try this out.
Jeanine says
Hope you enjoyed them, Drea!
Naomi says
Just made these and they came out so good! Thank you!!!