Ingredients

1 cup pitted dates (we use the Costco organic Deglet Noor dates; if they seem too dry soak them in very hot water for an hour and then drain)
1/2 cup unsweetened almond or soy milk (we get ours from Costco when we don’t make it ourselves)
1/2 cup almond butter (Costco has a great deal on organic almond butter!)
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour (also known as tapioca starch, not tapioca pearls)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 to 1 teaspoon cinnamon, according to taste
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

Preheat your oven to 350°. Spray the donut pan with an oil spray, or lightly grease it with solid coconut oil, and set it aside.

Place the dates (drained if you soaked them) in the bowl of a food processor. Process into a smooth paste. Add the almond butter and the milk and process until fully incorporated. Next add everything except the coconut and tapioca flours, and process until fully mixed in. Now add the flours and process until everything is nicely incorporated and the mixture is smooth.

Place the doughnut dough into a pastry bag without a tip, to pipe the dough into the rings on the pan. If you don’t have a pastry bag not to worry! You can also put the dough into a small plastic sandwich or other small plastic bag and snip off one corner through which to squeeze the dough into the forms. (Make a very small cut at first, you can always make the hole bigger, but you can’t make it smaller!)

Bake for 17-20 minutes, depending on your oven. They are done when they turn golden brown.

Flip the doughnuts out of the pan and onto a cooling rack, and cool completely (this is very important). These doughnuts seem to get even better the second or even third day! (We store them in the fridge.)

Yum, yum, yum! And great for dunking!