Cookies and Cream Donuts don’t really need an introduction
In the style of Krispy Kreme, these Cookies and Cream Donuts are filled to the brim with luscious cookie buttercream.
You are either team Krispy Kreme or team Dunkin’ Donuts
Which one are you?
Either way, homemade donuts are amazing!
There is nothing quite like a freshly fried donut!
RE: Oreos
There is much debate and decision making as to whether you want to accept Oreos as being vegan
Since here in the USA the sugar that Nabisco uses to make these cookies is processed through animal bone char.
But if you want to be sure you are 100% ethically vegan here
You can make your own Oreo Cookies using my recipe for Copy Cat Vegan Oreos!
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Cookies and Cream Donuts
Prep time
Bake time
Total time
Serves: 8-10 Donuts
Ingredients
- Plant Milk ¾ cup (180ml) warmed to 65°F
- Dry Yeast 1 Tablespoon (6g)
- Flax Meal 1 tablespoon (8g)
- Hot Water 3 Tablespoons (45ml)
- Granulated Sugar 1 Tablespoon (14g)
- All Purpose Flour 2½ cups (312g)
- Baking Powder ½ teaspoon (3g)
- Salt ¼ teaspoon
- Nutmeg Ground ⅛ teaspoon *optional
- Vegan Butter 4 tablespoons (56g)
- For the Frying
- Your favorite Vegetable frying oil approx 3cups
- For the Filling
- ½ Recipe Buttercream
- 1 cup crushed cookies
- Plus more cookies for dipping
- For the Icing
- Confectioner's Sugar for the icing 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons plant milk
Instructions
- First make the donut dough: Sprinkle the dry yeast over the warm milk with a pinch of sugar and allow to proof for about 5 minutes until slightly frothy
- Melt the vegan butter and then get the flax meal combined with the hot water and let it stand to thicken for 5 minutes
- In a mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment combine all the donut ingredients including the yeast/milk mixture
- Mix on low speed until everything is incorporated for about 30 seconds
- Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl to help it along and mix on low to medium for 8 more minutes on medium speed.
- Place the dough into a lightly oiled bowl and set in a warm spot, covered for 30 minutes
- After 30 minutes, fold the dough over onto itself and continue the rest for another 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile prepare the buttercream according to the recipe on that post & add the crushed cookies at the last stage of mixing~ reserve at room temperature
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll it to ¼" - ½" thick
- Cut dough with a 3" round biscuit cutter
- It is not great to re-roll this dough so I like to take the scraps and twist them up to make crullers.
- Transfer the donuts to a parchment lined sheet pan and allow them to rest & rise some more for 30 minutes and then begin heating the frying oil
- In a large, deep heavy bottom sauce pot heat 3 cups of frying oil to approximately 375°F (190°c)
- Fry the donuts for approximately 1 minute on each side using a metal or wooden utensil to do the flipping.
- Be very careful working with hot oil~it is very dangerous if it spills or splatters on your skin.
- Remove the donuts to a cooling rack or a sheet pan lined with paper towels to absorb the excess oil.
- Fill the cooled donuts with the cookie buttercream and then ice in confectioner's sugar glaze and then dip in crushed Oreos
Notes
Donuts are best eaten warm or at room temperature and on the day they are made
They go stale quickly as all yeast products do.
You can freeze fried un-decorated and unfilled donuts in an airtight container from up to 1 month, thaw out and warm in the microwave or conventional oven, then decorate as you wish
They go stale quickly as all yeast products do.
You can freeze fried un-decorated and unfilled donuts in an airtight container from up to 1 month, thaw out and warm in the microwave or conventional oven, then decorate as you wish
Finally vegan fried donuts!!!! Whoop whoop!! Quick question. So I don’t have a dough hook. Could I use the paddle rather than my bare hands. I’ve kneaded donuts by hand before!! Phew! Hard work!!
THANKS! YES YOU CAN DO IT THAT WAY TO START THEN KNEAD IT THE REST OF THE WAY TO FINISH
Brilliant!! Will let you know how it all turned out! My digital scale just decided to die, so I’m having to measure everything using measuring cups and measuring spoons!! I’ve never done one of your recipes this way!!! Aaaahhh!
Brilliant!!! My friends were shocked when I said that they were vegan! Success!!!! You are amazing!!!!!!
Hi Gretchen, you write that we can freeze them undecorated and unfilled; I was just wondering what was the reason? Do they get ruined somehow if you freeze them after filling and decorating?
I cannot wait to try this amazing recipe!