Because of my lack of measuring, the amounts of ingredients in this recipe are guesstimated. I came up with two guidelines to help you while making this though:
1) If the dough is too wet to roll into a ball, add more oats and flour.
2) If the dough is too dry and crumbly, add 1 tbsp of water until it has the right moisture balance in order to roll together
These donuts/donut holes don't taste like Tim Horton's Timbits. They are a bit heavier, denser and they are gluten free. And egg free. Oh, and did I mention that they're baked and not fried! That's another brownie point. Or donut point ;)
Gluten Free Donut Holes
Ingredients(approximately):
125ml Light Sour Cream(half of a 250ml tub)1 tbsp fancy molasses
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
1/4 TSP nutmeg
pinch of ground cloves
small sprinkle of salt
1 TSP ground flax seed
1/4 TSP chia seeds*
2 tbsp water
1 TSP baking powder
1/2 TSP baking soda
2 cups quick cook oats
1/4 cup buckwheat flour*
1 cup brown rice flour
1. Add ground flax and chia seeds to water. Stir once and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, add sour cream, nutmeg, salt, cinnamon, and cloves. Stir with spoon until well mixed.
3. Add baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar, molasses, and water-flax mixture into the spiced sour cream. Stir by hand until the ingredients are well incorporated.
4. Add the oats, rice flour and buckwheat flour. Stir with spoon at first, then it will easier to just get your hands into the mixture. With your hands, mix the dough until there is little to no flour/oats left on the bottom of the bowl. If the dough is too wet and sticking to your hands, add 1/4 cup of brown rice flour and continue to mix it in with your hands. If it's still to wet, add another 1/4cup. If it's too dry, add 1 tbsp of water.
5. With your hands, scoop a small handful of dough into your hands and roll it into a ball. It should be the size of a medium to large marble and look something like the picture down below.
7. Place cooked donut holes on a wire rack to cool.
TIPS AND IDEAS
- When cooled down, roll the donut holes in a mixture of honey and cinnamon(2 tbsp honey and 1 tsp cinnamon). Place back on wire rack to drip dry.
- Make chocolate donut holes by adding 2 tbsp cocoa and 1 tbsp brown sugar to the mixture before it is rolled out.
- Make donuts by flattening a roll and carefully pressing your thumb through the center. Place the donut on parchment paper and shape it so it has a more defined hole, and is rounded.
-Roll donuts/donut holes in sugar or coconut flakes before baking.
*Instead of using chia seeds, you can up the amount of ground flax to equal 1-1/2 tsp
*You can use all brown rice flour instead of adding buckwheat(I just wanted to use the rest of my buckwheat flour!)
