VEGAN BOSTON CREAM DOUGHNUTS (3 ways: traditional, baked, or airfryer!)

You can make VEGAN BOSTON CREAM DONUTS at home simply and easily! These are soft puffy doughnuts, covered with rich chocolate glaze and filled with smooth vanilla vegan pastry cream.

Welcome friends and not-yet-friends,
I'm sure you'll agree the most donut-y of doughnuts are deep-fried. But in this tutorial for Boston Cream Donuts, I'll include:
- how to make classic egg-free donut dough,
- how to make dairy-free Boston Cream filling,
- how to make rich allergen-friendly chocolate donut glaze,
- how to fry donuts the traditional way, but also
- how to bake Boston Cream Donuts in the oven, and
- how to make Boston Cream Donuts in the air fryer!

THE INSPIRATION
Back in the old days BEFORE Tim Horton's started trucking in frozen donuts, they used to make them all fresh in store. That's when I fell in love with Boston Cream Donuts. I still remember those soft puffy donuts, covered with chocolaty glaze and filled with smooth vanilla pastry cream.

The method for veganizing these donuts was fairly simple since classic donut dough doesn't really require dairy or eggs. Some recipes do, but I found it easy to replace the extra richness with flax seeds and coconut oil.

Veganizing the pastry cream was a little bit trickier. It took a few trials but once I got the formula down, vegan pastry cream is simple to make in practice.

Making chocolate donut glaze that hardens without getting brittle or melting to easily also required a few trials. Getting the ratio of each ingredient right is important for texture. But again, simple in practice once you have the recipe.

Then I knew I would get requests to bake these instead of frying. Personally, I think the fried version is going to take you right back to the donut shop and impress all your friends and family. But the baked and air fried versions are also surprisingly good!

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Thanks so much for watching.

Your friend,
Mary

- TIME STAMPS -
Intro: 0:00
Deep-frying: 5:38
Baking: 7:40
Air Frying: 8:13
Filling: 8:50
Chocolate Glaze: 10:37

-- LINKS --

VEGAN BOSTON CREAM DONUTS [full blog post and printable recipe]:

VEGAN BAKED DONUTS W/ CHOCOLATE + MATCHA GLAZES [video]:

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[IreneRudnyk]

Are you kidding me? please open your restaurant already, i would be there every day haha

[SeanLumly]

Pastry cream using flour?! My mind is BLOWN. I never would have guessed that this would work! Amazing!

[SinMiedo]

Best donut hands down. Thank you for making a vegan version.

[marystestkitchen]

Boston Cream doughnuts were one of my fave picks from Tim Horton's. So while we wait for the donut shops to get it together and make vegan versions on the regular, we can make our own, dangnabbit!
What are your favourite donut flavours? Let me know and maybe I'll do it next time!

[chowdownvegan]

"I'd rather use my trusty old kitchen scale for accuracy and less effort" YES 🙌 waiting for the day that every part of the world converts to measuring most types of ingredients with scales instead of cups and spoons (that aren't universally sized). using scales also means less cleanup of course as you can measure your ingredients directly into your bowl 👍

[ohno]

I like how nice and forgiving you sound because it keeps me calm if I mess up in a step

[dominikadzatkova]

I really love your "its your food, so there are no rules" thought ❤

[TheFourteenthWard]

you're doing the lord's work

[inick]

No reason not to be vegan with this in our lives :)

[plantbasedsenior]

Made these last weekend - granddaughter approved! Used my air fryer - so easy

[superfem-geek]

As both a vegan, and a Canadian, I am SO happy to see this video :D

[mimiashford]

Mary so HANDS DOWN, 100%, YOU ARE THE go-to guy for any and everything veganized! There are so many things I miss in the past few years since switching to WFPB & if I'm ever craving something I come STRAIGHT to your channel. If you make a cookbook it will be a #1 seller! Thank you for not only veganizing everything but making it perfect & delicious tasting just like we remember it! You are SUCH a pioneer!

[AussieAngeS]

Oh my goodness those look absolutely delicious and tasty I want one of those now. I missed your videos and I'm so glad you are back. Your videos are calming to watch. Hope you are well.

[pantherzee]

I just made these!! I absolutely loved the dough and the combination of the cream and the chocolate was perfect!! I didn't have chocolate chips so I made a glaze with unsweetened coco. I made them a little too small so they kind of turned out more like profiteroles than doughnuts but it was my first time baking anything with yeast so I'm really happy with how they turned out!!! I'm definitely going to be trying this recipe again!! Thank you so

[RashomiSilva]

Thank you for this I missed doughnuts so much, but not anymore by the look of it 🙂

[looow]

WOW! Just today I saw a Boston Cream Donut for the first time, and I thought to myself "Well that's a shame, I'll never be able to have one" and then this!!!! :O I admire the amount of work you put into your videos, the quality shows :)

I was looking for a decadent vegan donut recipe and this came just in time. Thank you Mary you and your recipes are awesome!!

[khkikqm]

Microwaves are underrated. I once made an entire batch of vegan white gravy in a microwave and it was delicious.

[Ladyteecraft]

These look amazing. I'll be making these this weekend. My family will love them for Sunday breakfast.

[Annaa]

I am SO making these! I'm gonna add a little turmeric to the cream so it looks a little more like custard!