How to Make Vegan Donut Holes

I am Ani Phyo, welcome to another episode of Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen. Thanks for joining me today. We are going to be making delicious donut holes, vigan and rah. You can believe it, they are going to be so delicious.

So before we start, we are going to be sweetening our donut holes with dates. Dates are wonderful for iron, potassium, fiber, calcium. It is a wonderful fruit and they come in different varieties.

Here today, we have a Honey Date and you can see it is much softer, and it tastes like honey, that is why it is called that. This is a Halawi Date, which is a little bit drier and stiffer, and this is Deglet Noir Date.

And so if you go to your farmer’s market, luckily in California here there are many different varieties of dates. We live right near the dessert where they grow, and each variety has a different texture and a different flavor. So you might want to experiment and find your favorites. Today I am going to be using the Deglet Noir in our recipe.

Here is one cup of almonds. Again, they have been soaked and air dried, one quarter teaspoon of salt, one half of a vanilla bean that has been scraped out the seeds, and then we are going to be hand mixing in one cup of chopped dried pineapple, sulfur free. One cup of pitted dates, three tablespoons of coconut, and then here is two tablespoons of coconut that we are going to use to roll the donut holes in as the last step.

So what we are going to do is put our dried almonds into the food processor and we are just going to coarsely chop because you want the chunks in so there is crunch in our donut holes. So I am placing the almonds and our salt, and giving it a light chop.

So that looks pretty good. Next, what I am going to do is I am going to place our pitted dates into this bowl. Again, you want to use the semi-soft dates so it is easy to mix, our chopped pineapple, our coconut, our vanilla bean, our vanilla bean seeds. And then we are going to—well actually first, I am going to start by mixing the salt together and you will see it is going to be quite sticky.

And so the way that raw desserts work is that I like to use the dates as the base but you can see how sticky it is. And so then what I do is I add the chopped dried nuts and seeds, in this case, we are using almonds. And that is what is going to make it less sticky so that we can then roll this into little balls to be our donut holes.

So as a little trick, if your hands are getting too sticky and covered with dates, you can always wash your hands and leave a little bit of moisture on them and that keeps the stuff from sticking as much. Look how beautiful that is.

If you have kids, you can definitely give them the task of rolling these up. It is super fun, they will just love it. There we are! So we are just going to continue that for all of them. Here we are, they are done and they are absolutely gorgeous! Don’t they smell great?


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