Healthy Apple Fritters (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
You can still have everything you love about brunch with these healthy apple fritters – gluten free, dairy free lovers – rejoice!
Servings: 8 apple fritters
Ingredients
(Apple Fritters)
- 1 cup + 1 teaspoon
coconut oil , divided - 2 Granny Smith apples
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup
gluten free baking flour - ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup non-dairy milk
- 1 egg
(Vanilla Cinnamon Glaze)
- 1/3 cup coconut cream (skimmed off the top of a can of
full-fat coconut milk ) - 3 tablespoons
maple syrup - 1 dash
cinnamon - ½ teaspoon
vanilla extract - 1/8 teaspoon
sea salt
Instructions
(Apple Fritters)
- Core, peel, and dice apples into ¼-inch pieces and sauté over medium heat with 1 teaspoon coconut oil. Stir and cook until apple is somewhat soft to touch, about 7 minutes. Mix in cinnamon and vanilla.
- Stir together flour, salt, and baking power. Mix together milk, maple syrup, and egg, then lightly stir into dry ingredients. Mix in apple pieces.
- Add remaining coconut oil into a large frying pan. Heat over medium. When the oil is hot, add about ¼ cup of batter in small circles/patches to make fritters (about 3-4 will fry in the pan at once). Cook each about 3 minutes per side. Flip and cook the other side for 3 minutes. Remove from pan.
- Repeat with the remaining batter and fry the second batch of fritters.
- Allow fritters to cool on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
(Vanilla Cinnamon Glaze)
- In a small saucepan, add coconut cream and maple syrup. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and allow to simmer, stirring on occasion, for 5-10 minutes until thickened (will be a slightly syrupy consistency when ready). Remove from heat and mix in cinnamon, vanilla, and sea salt. Allow to cool, then drizzle over apple fritters.