Gluten Free Cookies and Cream Donuts are a baked chocolate donut with cream cheese icing and topped with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies. They’re super easy to make and there’s even a dairy free option!

This recipe for gluten free cookies and cream donuts is basically just a baked Oreo donut recipe. The difference" Well, they’re gluten free and it’s really all in the name.
I asked on my Facebook page and my Instagram stories for everyone to vote on what they would call the donuts – Cookies and Cream Donuts or Oreo Donuts. The winner was Cookies and Cream Donuts by a landslide. Like, it wasn’t even close.
Regular Oreos aren’t gluten free so we just swapped them out for some gluten free chocolate sandwich cookies (I get ones that are dairy free too). I also stuck with my baked chocolate donut recipe base, it’s the same base recipe for my gluten free double chocolate donuts. It’s a tried and true recipe and comes out great every time.
I can’t remember if I shared this here before, but my very first job was at a local coffee shop. It was a small local chain, they had 5 stores. We sold all kinds of coffee, doughnuts, and pastries. One of the more popular doughnuts we sold was the Oreo Donut. At least I think it was Oreo. I can’t for the life of me remember if it was Oreo or Cookies and Cream.
But I DO know that it was a fried yeast based donut (doughnut) frosted with vanilla frosting and topped with cru...