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Roasted Blueberry Brioche Donuts

Vegan Roasted Blueberry Brioche Donuts

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Author: Mariza Ebersohn | Life in the South

Ingredients

  • 19 g active dry yeast
  • 200 ml soy milk
  • 40 g vegan white sugar
  • 1 ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 200 g bread flour
  • 200 g all-purpose flour
  • Potato “egg” ingredients below
  • 100 g vegan butter or cubed coconut oil
  • 1 L canola oil for frying
  • Castro sugar for dusting
  • Potato “egg”
  • 1 tsp potato protein or corn starch
  • tsp xanthan gum
  • 1 ½ tsp ice cold water
  • 2 tsp nutritional yeast
  • Roasted blueberry pastry cream
  • 1 cup blueberries
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • cup soaked cashews
  • 1 cup plant-based milk
  • 2 tbsp corn starch
  • pinch of salt

Instructions

  • Heat the plant milk until lukewarm and then add the active yeast, leave to bubble for a few minutes.
  • Sift together the flours, sugar, potato egg, vanilla seeds, and salt together.
  • Gradually pour in the bubbly plant milk mix and then once they are mixed gradually add bits of the vegan butter while kneading or using a bread attachment kneading slowly until homogenized.
  • Place in a bowl, cover with cling wrap and leave to rise for 30-60 minutes until double in size.
  • Once risen, wrap up in cling wrap and refrigerate overnight.
  • The next morning, divide the dough and save the rest to make cinnamon knots, or roll the dough out 1 ½ cm on a floured surface and press out round shapes or hearts with a cookie cutter.
  • Place the donuts on a floured baking tray, leave to rise until doubled and then once risen.
  • Heat up the canola or any other flavorless oil, add the donuts once the oil is heated to frying temperature (test with a piece of dough, its rise to the top) and fry the donuts 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown.
  • Once brown on both sides, scoop out with a slotted spoon, on some paper towels to drain.
  • Once cooled, roll the donuts in the castor sugar, make a hole at the one end of the donut with a sharp knife or the tip of the pastry nozzle, and fill with the roasted blueberry pastry cream.
  • Roasted blueberry pastry cream 
  • Preheat oven to 175°C/350°F, place the washed blueberries on a parchment paper-lined baking tray, drizzle with the maple syrup and then bake for 10-15 minutes until gooey.
  • Leave to cool before blending the rest of the pastry cream ingredients, pour into a saucepan on medium and stir until thickened, add more sweetness if desired.
  • Leave to cool before scooping into a pastry bag fitted with a wide tip nozzle to fit into the donut.
  • Fill with the pastry cream, and store with the pastry cream filling facing up so it does not leak out.
  • Serve at room temperature, best to serve fresh the day the donuts have been made.

Notes

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