This is the story of how the Raspberry, Gluten free Vegan Donut Pie came into existences. I was trying to make a vegan, paleo, oil free and gluten free donut last Sunday night…. when I came up with the thought in my head I felt like I was a genius! The ingredients seemed to just jump at me in my head!
The Donut HOLE truth (sorry I had to make a pun)
Oh, was I ever wrong, the recipe had seemed perfect. I began scooping the batter into my donut machine (one of those panini grill style donut machine). As I scooped in the batter I contemplated my post for the weekend I was thinking of how sure I was of myself-and making a cinnamon maple glaze to coat the donuts. Then the light flickered signalling they donuts were ‘ready’. I carefully opened the lid only to find half my donut stuck to the top of the grill and the other half glued to the bottom…and the exposed middle still raw…the death sentence to recipes.
Being an optimist, I’m a glass is half full type of gal. I analysed the batter and decided I’ll just add oil this way nothing will stick. I added 3 tablespoons of oil to the batter and I lightly coated the donut grill (is that the term?). Now this being my second attempt I began to confidently scoop in spoons of batter into the molds. Not yet nervous I waited to see if this fixed the issue…Again I peered at the open donut maker only to see the same problem stuck to both ends and raw on the inside.
Again, back to the batter. This time I thought “oh its too dense I’ll add about ¼ cup of water. That will do the trick!’’ only to end with the same results… this continued which each batch until I finished all the batter.
The PIEnally (wow I’m having too much fun with this)
Completely unsuccessful I stared at my mess of doughy crumbs and about 4 broken donuts. I thought to myself ‘is this it? Did I actually fail at this or am I missing something’ As I began to squish my hands through the crumbs I realized it was still malleable thought what a pity it was how I could have donuts from this batter because it was so tasty…but it would work as pie crust! With that a light bulb flashed in my head and decided to press the dough into a pie plate and baked that for 15 minutes.
Is this some kind of metaphor for life?
When life gives you lemons you make pie? Or rather failure is only part of the process.
I’ve been asking my followers on Instagram if I should have a YouTube channel and maybe this whole failure is some kind of message to me to try it and if it doesn’t work out there will be some kind silver lining.
The Pie Filling: Raspberry Gluten Free Vegan Donut Pie
The filling is super easy to make and I suggest you use this as your go to filling for anything I want to make little pastries and I would love to use this as the filling! Simply 4 ingredients and that’s it! Frozen Raspberries, fresh strawberries maple syrup and you can use either AGAR or Arrowroot. I was so excited by this, the raspberry gluten free vegan donut pie.. technically though its not really donuts because when you make this yourself you are not going to go through the trouble or attempting to make donuts, your just going to go straight to making the batter as a pie crust.
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The Raspberry Donut Pie Recipe
This accidental Pie is surprisingly easy to make, if your don’t make it as a donut first …
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 30m
- Total Time: 40m
Ingredients
The Pie "donut" Crust
- 2 tablespoons Arrowroot or Agar
- 2 cups sliced strawberries
- 2 cups frozen Raspberries
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/2 cup Water
- 3 tablespoons canola oil or olive oil
- 1 Banana
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 cup Almond Milk
- 1/4 cup Maple Syrup
- 1 cup Almond Flour
- 3/4 cup Coconut Flour
- 1/4 cup water
Raspberry Pie Filling
Instructions
The Pie "donut" Crust
- Preheat Oven 350 dregrees
- Mash banana set aside
- Mix all dress ingredients together for the 'Donut' Pie crust
- Mix all wet ingredients and add in mashed banana
- slowly incorporate dry and wet together, you will have a firm batter
- you can either roll out batter and over pie plate or press into plate
- bake for 15 minutes (just enough to dry out moisture watch to make sure it doesn't over dry and crack)
Raspberry Pie Filling
- On a stove top place frozen raspberries in pot add water and maple syrup bring to a boil
- constantly stirring, let the mixture simmer after all the berries have separated add in the arrowroot or agar Stir set aside
Assembling Pie
- Slice the strawberries add one layer on pie crust
- Fill pie with berry mixture until all strawberries are covered
- repeat until the filling is finished and you have one last layer of strawberries to put on the top.
- refrigerate for an hour
Your recipes are always stunning but this one is going beyond (even though I kind of wish it were a donut). The last time I tried to make a donut it also went wrong… However I did not make a fantastic new recipe from the old one. Love this and will definitely be trying it very soon 💚
Ha! Sometimes things are serendipitous. If the donuts had worked, you wouldn’t have this delicious pie. 🙂
Ha! Sometimes these things are serendipitous. If the donuts had worked, you wouldn’t have this delicious pie. 🙂
This looks amazing! I’ll be trying it this weekend.