Oatnuts - The HEALTHIEST Donut in the WORLD!

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it, too!"  These little circles of heaven defy that logic.  I promise these are the best tasting donuts you'll ever have!  They taste sinfully delicious.  In all my years of Healthy Vegan hacking you could always 'taste the healthy' on a baked good.  I came to acquire a taste for the healthy, these make you feel like you are being bad.  

Of course, these are flour based products, which equates to some processing.  For those of us who are McDougall over achievers or just want to celebrate some Maximum Weight-Loss goals with a great treat that won't reverse your course, but certainly tastes like it does, these are perfection! 

Peanut Butter Oatnuts

Ingredients :

DRY BOWL

• 1/2 cup Pastry Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 3 T Tapioca Starch
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp Sea Salt
• 1 cup Quick Oats
• 4-5 T Betty Lou's Just Great Powdered Peanut Butter

WET BOWL 

• 1/2 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
•  1 T Brown Sugar 
• 3 T Maple Syrup (overflowing.. if you like it sweeter:)
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 T Apple Cider Vinegar

Peanut Butter Icing:
2 T powdered sugar
2 T  Betty Lou's Just Great Powdered Peanut Butter
1 tsp water
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
–plus water as needed

Instructions

1. Purchase a Nonstick Donut Pan Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Combine the "Dry" Ingredients in a large mixing bowl, Mix.  Combine "Wet" Ingredients in a small mixing bowl, Mix.  Combine "Wet" Bowl into the "Dry" Bowl, Gently mix until completely combined. 
3. Bake for about 10 minutes, until tops look slightly crispy and very lightly browned. 
4. When the Oatnuts are cooling, make icing.  Drizzle the icing over Oatnut :)