These Baked Apple Spice Donut Holes are little bites of moist, tender donuts coated in crisp cinnamon sugar. Made with whole wheat and real apples so you feel great about 'em!
Preheat oven to 400F and set rack on middle or lower middle position. Grease mini muffin pan. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together both flours, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
In another bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, 2 TB melted butter, vanilla extract, and grated apple (squeeze out as much juice as you can, before using the grated apples.)
Fold wet ingredients with dry ingredients, continuing to fold until combined.
Level about 1 TB scoops of batter into greased mini muffin pan.
Bake 7-8 minutes or until lightly golden. Cool in pan a few minutes or until they are able to be easily removed.
Whisk together 1/2 cup sugar with 1 TB cinnamon in a bowl.
When ready to serve, dip donut holes in melted butter and roll in cinnamon sugar. Serve immediately.
Notes
You can also use 1 cup all purpose flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour.
Do not dip in butter/roll in cinnamon sugar until just before serving. Otherwise, the coating tends to get soggy.
Batter is not very sweet, since cinnamon sugar coating is quite sweet. If you want a sweeter batter, just add more sugar into dry ingredients.