Discover how Fōnuts founder Nancy Truman crafts her delicious gluten-free donuts with her unique recipe and expert tips.
Discover the Secrets Behind Fōnuts’ Delicious Gluten-Free Treats
In the world of gluten-free baking, Fōnuts has made a name for itself with its innovative approach to donuts. Founder Nancy Truman shares her expertise in crafting delicious gluten-free donuts, providing insights into the ingredients and techniques that make them unique. Her passion for creating treats that cater to those with dietary restrictions has led to a recipe that not only avoids gluten but also delivers on taste and texture.
Truman emphasizes the importance of using high-quality gluten-free flours and balancing flavors to achieve the perfect donut. Her approach involves experimenting with different combinations to find the ideal mix that mimics the traditional donut experience. By focusing on the quality of ingredients and methodical preparation, she demonstrates that gluten-free treats can be just as indulgent and satisfying as their gluten-containing counterparts.
Whipping Up Magic: Nancy Truman’s Secrets to Irresistible Gluten-Free Delights
Well this is National gluten-free diet awareness month and going gluten-free is becoming more and more popular so is the demand for products and one of those taking off now is the faut and joining me now is Nancy Truman the founder of fonut welcome it’s good to have you thank you for having me so for folks who have never heard of this before what is.
A faut so a faut is a faux donut it’s a fake doughnut because it’s baked instead of fried donuts are fried usually so this is baked instead of fried and they’re all made with almond flour and rice flour so they happen to be gluten-free so what made you decide that we needed a new and improved doughnut well I’m really particular about my.
Baked goods and I happen to be gluten-free so I couldn’t find anything good out there so I just decided I was going to do it myself do this gluten-free or no but you know I do struggle with donuts because that little coating you get in your mouth when you eat them and then it’s not not always agreeable so these are go down easy and.
You can you will feel just fine and great that might be a problem you know they go down too easy but now a lot of people go to your stores you’ve got three of them now three shops but you’re making it so that even if we can’t get to the shop we can still get a phone out yes I brought the DIY Baker kit with me okay this.
Happens to be churro it’s also vegan and it’s our bestseller really so you can’t even tell the difference like most of our customers are not gluten-free or vegan so we ship these Nationwide they make a great gift and we’re going to make one right now so what you’re going to do I already took the batter pack out everything you need is in this box so.
You’re going to add your oil all you need from home yep all you need from home is oil and plant milk okay 1/4 cup oil 3/4 cup plant milk we use soy milk yeah you can use almond or o I say don’t use coconut because it’s a little heavy now you’re going to open this little applesauce cut that drop that in you weren’t kidding you you’ve got it all.
Ready for us here it’ll take you 10 minutes top to bottom like without you know not including baked squeeze all of it in because instead of an egg right we need a binder and your apples sauce works as your binder cuz we’re doing vegan oh okay and then there’s your vinegar oh and that is going to help them rise a little acid is going.
To activate your baking powder right so you just put everything’s in that kit you just drop it in look how easy yeah this is I didn’t know you were going to like measure it all out for yeah and this is already measured in the box so the easiest way is you’re just going to drop all this batter into the cavities of the phuts okay of the little pan is.
There a trick to this do you kind of use this as a scoop you can use this as a scoop it comes with the pan oh the kid come with the pan so you’re going to reuse the pan and just you can reorder mixes and do we do this like halfway or what do they rise a little bit they’re going to rise so you’re going to do them all evenly but guess what mag I’ve got.
The magic TV okay so we put them in the oven can we just clarify that I wasn’t doing a bad job you were doing a great job so they come out like this oh nice you’re just going to unmold them oh yeah these are definitely the ones I put in the P yeah no they look incredible and then you make your glaze so the same thing we have the pack of of already.
Scaled out you’re just going to put four tablespoons so you’re just going to grab this okay see I was about to dump the whole thing it’s a good thing you sto me so this is the easiest way I find this is just water yeah just four tablespoons of water okay and then you’re just going to give this a little mix okay okay I’ll give this to you to mix oh great look at.
You giving me the tough job I see okay then we got the magic of TV again magic of TV okay great you have your glaze here okay and all you do it’s so easy you can do this with kids they love it and you’re just going to either spoon on your glaze straight onto the phuts you can just the kids can drizzle it on this way but because I knew you were going to.
Be so skilled Amy I brought you a pastry bag oh wow and you can actually just use a baggie at home like a Ziploc put your glaze in the baggie and just cut the corner and just pipe it on oh and just cover the whole thing we give you plent cool before we put the glaz you should wait till they cool a few minutes okay and.
Then you you know until you put the glaze and you could just go crazy put we give you so much glaze yes that looks beautiful thank you and we even in the shop we cover the whole thing so you can just sh you’ve got some amazing flavors which is very exciting and you’ve got some other um items that are all glutenfree is that everything we make in.
The Shop’s glutenfree so yeah we have bread I brought you cake to try some Buttermilk Biscuits looks like some coconut uh those actually are buttermilk biscuits buttermilk biscuits we honey cookies and cookies little donuts and big Donuts and you know the cutest thing about the baker kits you bake them they come in the Box they the kit comes in.
The box that we actually use in store you bring them to a party ding dong you put them in there yes but nobody’s going to believe you because it’s in a box right exactly thank you so much this looks amazing and of course you can find more information about phuts and their gluten-free menu by going to our website kcon news.com and click scen on TV.
