Mandazi (East African donuts)

These are usually deep fried and so high in calories. This version is baked, so its much healthier! The difference in taste to a North American donut is the spices added to the batter such as ground ginger, caradamom and cinnamon. These are a lot less sweeter than the traditional donut and there is no added glaze or coating. Traditionally these are fried in triangle shapes but i use my pop cake maker so mine are round.

Ingredients:
3.5 cups of rice flour (all purpose flour works too!)
1.75 cups of organic skim milk (you may only need 1 cup of milk if you use all purpose flour)
2 eggs
3 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of maple sugar (regular white or brown sugar is fine as well!)
1 tsp of baking powder
2 tsp of ground ginger powder
2 tsp of ground caradamom powder
0.5 tsp of cinnamon

1) Add eggs and milk to a mixing bowl.
2) Whisk well.

3) Mix flour, sugar, spices in another bowl.
4) Mix egg and milk mixture to the flour mixture and mix well.

5) Melt butter and add to the mixture.
TIP: The batter shouldn't be very thick, but as i said earlier this will depend on the type of flour you use. It should be runny, almost like pancake batter. If it is too thick, add more milk.

6) Pour batter in the cake pop machine.
7) Bake until golden brown.
TIP: pour batter right to the lip to get nice and round shapes.
If you not using the cake pop machine and want to bake these. You can using a muffin pan. Bake at 400 degrees F for about 10 mins until golden brown.

Makes approx. 60 cake pops
Calories per pop: 56, Carbs: 11g, Sugar: 3g, Fat: 1g, Protein: 1g, Sodium: 10g