Time to make the doughnuts. These homemade healthy Krispy Kreme donuts can be vegan, sugar free, and you can customize the basic recipe to make different flavors!
Sticky, sugary-sweet Krispy Kreme homemade donuts.
So do these homemade donuts (doughnuts or donuts?) taste exactly like real Krispy Kremes?
No, and they’re not supposed to. I always thought Krispy Kremes were too saccharine, with all that glaze covering every inch of the greasy pastries, weighing you down and zapping your energy.
Today’s recipe yields doughnuts that are super light and fluffy, not dense or gummy, which is a problem with many baked doughnut recipes.
These doughnuts will leave you feeling full, yet energized!
Above, frosted with my simple Healthy Glaze Icing.
Good for breakfast, or dessert, or even as a healthy post-workout snack.
Did you know there’s a charity race called the Krispy Kreme Challenge, where participants run 2.5 miles, shove down an entire box of Krispy Kreme donuts, and then run another 2.5 miles back to the starting line?
I can’t even imagine the horrible stomachaches that must ensue.
Who comes up with these things??
Healthy Krispy Kreme Donuts
Ingredients
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar or white vinegar
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp coconut or vegetable oil (many readers say applesauce or mashed banana work for fat-free)
- 1 cup spelt or all-purpose flour (A reader had success with gluten-free ap flour)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup regular sugar or coconut sugar, or xylitol for sugar free
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Combine first four ingredients in a small bowl, and whisk well. Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a doughnut pan if you have one. (If you don’t have a doughnut pan, you can cook in a mini muffin tin for doughnut holes.) In a large measuring bowl, combine all remaining ingredients and stir very well. Now pour wet into dry and immediately pour into the pan. Bake 15 minutes, then allow to cool before removing. Top these healthy doughnuts with jam, or chocolate frosting, or glaze. (My simple glaze recipe is linked under the second photo in this post.)View Nutrition Facts
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So yummy! I used 1/2 regular sugar and 1/2 monk fruit sugar. The donuts were soft and fluffy and my kids loved them! Thanks Katie!
Hi! Would it be possible to make a pumpkin spice version of these donuts?
Thanks!
Hmm, maybe start with this one and replace a few tablespoons of the water with pumpkin puree then add a pinch of pumpkin pie spice? https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/baked-cinnamon-sugar-donuts/
Thank you!
I haven’t tried the recipe yet but I plan to. When you say ‘milk of choice” does this include plant milks such as almond, rice, oat, soy, etc.? Or do you mean dairy milks ?
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It includes plant milks 🙂
These Healthy Krispy Kreme Donuts were great!!!! and very easy and fast to make.
I made these for myself and my baby, her favorite pajamas recently have been ones with donuts on them. She is a year and a half old so I’m still not giving her sugar. Tragic life. So I got some granulated Xylitol, never use the stuff before, I made a single batch I ate half the donuts. They made me so sick! I did a little research, it says you can get diarrhea and stomach upset from 20 to 30 G of Xylitol and I ate a little bit more than that. Oops. Good learning experience. Think I might try the recipe with regular sugar so I can eat as many as I want 😉
This doughnut is soft and moist and yummy with chocolate icing on top. We used 2 Tbsp. apple sauce and 1 Tbsp oil and it was lovely!
Thank you so much for making them 🙂
My go to donut recipe. Gluten free flour works well with this recipe also! The kids and I love them! Thank you for the awesome recipe!