How to make your own secretly vegan donuts at home – the super easy recipe, with just 8 ingredients!
Easy Baked Vegan Donuts
Egg free
Dairy free
Can be oil free
No refined sugar
♥ COMPLETELY DELICIOUS
The best part about these vegan donuts is that the recipe is so simple you might already have all of the ingredients needed to make them right now!
Also Try These Quick & Healthy Vegan Pancakes.
The donuts are baked, not fried, and there are no flax eggs, no yeast, and no crazy ingredients – they taste like regular donuts because they ARE regular donuts!
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Vegan Donut Recipes
Vegan Blueberry Donuts: Use the following recipe for Blueberry Baked Donuts.
Peanut Butter Donuts: Follow the recipe below, subbing 1/4 cup peanut butter for all of the oil.
Vanilla Glazed Donuts: Make the basic glaze and donut recipes, both included below in this post.
Vegan Chocolate Donuts: Replace 1/4 cup of the flour in the recipe below with unsweetened cocoa powder. Dip in melted chocolate.
Coconut Donuts: Use coconut milk as the milk of choice in the below recipe, and replace half of the vanilla extract with coconut extract. If desired, top with frosting or coconut butter and toasted shredded coconut.
For chocolate frosted donuts, use this Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.
Coconut Samoas Donuts, from the vegan Hello Breakfast ebook.
Vegan Dunkin Donuts?
As of June 2020, there are inexplicably still no vegan doughnuts available for sale at either Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts, although the latter does offer Beyond Meat vegan sausage patties and almond milk on its menu.
But once you learn how easy it is to make your own donuts at home, you can turn your kitchen into your very own vegan Krispy Kreme factory and make as many flavors as you can dream up.
Serve the donuts for breakfast alongside a homemade Whipped Coffee, and you don’t ever even need to leave your pajamas!
Cookie Monster Donuts, with Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Donut Frosting Options
For vegan glazed donuts, use the icing recipe below:
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar or sugar-free powdered sugar
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp milk of choice, or as needed
- optional lemon zest, orange zest, or 1/4 tsp pure maple extract
Or you can frost the vegan doughnuts with store-bought or homemade frosting, dip in cinnamon sugar, melted chocolate chips, or powdered sugar, ice with vegan cream cheese frosting and cover them in sprinkles, or serve them unfrosted for breakfast instead of muffins.
Baking Tips & Tricks
If you don’t have a donut maker or donut pan, the healthy donuts can also be made in a regular or mini muffin tin as long as baking time is adjusted.
Or you can buy a donut pan (they’re usually under ten dollars) on Amazon, Target, Walmart, Michaels, Bed Bath Beyond, or sometimes available in Whole Foods or regular grocery stores.
For vegan gluten free donuts, the recipe works with oat flour or Bob’s gluten free all purpose mix. For sugar-free donuts, xylitol works as well.
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Above – watch the video how to make the vegan donut recipe
Vegan Donuts
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp white or cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 tbsp oil, nut butter, or applesauce or mashed banana for fat-free
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup or agave (here's a sugar free donut recipe)
- 1 cup flour, loosely packed
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- optional pinch cardamom
Instructions
- Whisk together first 5 ingredients. Grease a donut pan or mini muffin pan. Preheat oven to 350 F. Add all remaining ingredients to a large bowl. Once oven is preheated, stir wet into dry until evenly mixed (don’t overmix). Bake on the center rack 8 minutes or until donuts have risen and are cooked through. Let sit 5 minutes before removing from the pan. Vegan frosting recipes are included above in this post. View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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Shannon says
Hi Katie!❤️ I have been trying your recipes for years and I recommend your blog to everyone especially my chocolate loving friends. I don’t know how I missed the donuts. I totally have to make these for my dh! When she goes to sleep overs they always buy storebought Donuts and she feels like she misses out especially being gluten-free celiac like we are. We both won’t even eat the store bought gluten-free ones because they just taste gross. Super excited to try these and when I do I will let you know🥰
Joan Dahlen says
Hi Katie,
I found your website while tooling around looking for safe baking for my IBS Kitchn website. How adorable are you!! I admit I am insanely jealous of your gorgeous website. I have been blogging for 5 years (83 year old granny here), but I am not techy enough to make my blog monitize for me. (sob) You are amazing. I also love your donut recipe because it doesn’t taste any different from regular baked cupcakes or muffins. I’m going out today to buy a donut pan so my donuts will bake more evenly than they did in a muffin tin. lol My IBS folks will be ecstatic to finally have a donut that doesn’t hurt them and yet tastes soooo much better than most GF or other low fodmap recipes. I have adapted your ingredients to those we IBS folk can eat and the donut is still delicious. Love you so much for your daring ideas.
CCK Media Team says
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Shelley Simmons says
Amazing! I am sugar feee, gluten free,and vegan, so it can be a challenge to find things to eat. These yummy donuts almost made me cry! I switched out some of the gf flour for cocoa powder and protein/greens powder, just to add a little more nutrients. Dipped them in melted Lily’s chocolate chips, does and went to heaven!
Thank you, Katie, for restoring my joy in food!
CCK Media Team says
Thank you so much for making them 🙂
April says
My 4- and 5- yr old boys and I just bought a donut pan – woot! So we immediately came here to our go-to, CCK (love!). Sadly, I used oat flour and so far they are sticking….Nothing we can eat in a bowl with some milk and a spoon. Next time we will try Bob’s GF or just regular white flour. You are filling a niche in the world, Katie. Stay beautiful!
Michelle says
These were the EASIEST donuts I’ve ever made and they tasted great! Very crispy for baked donuts. I used oat flour and oat milk as my variation and it filled out one pan of mini donuts. Thank you so much!
Christina says
I totally need a copycat Dunkin Donuts crueller recipe!
Ava says
I made the chocolate variation, fluffy and delicious!
Lyn says
Really yummy!
I have a question, I apologize if I missed this… how do you store these and do you reheat in any way when ready for more?
Thank you for all the amazing recipes, I have tried multiple and loved every one – your ice cream is my fav!
CCK Media Team says
Hi! They can be stored, loosely covered on the counter or in the fridge overnight. We would recommend refrigerating in a covered container after a day, for freshness. You can reheat in the microwave, a warm oven, or on the stovetop or a toaster oven – completely your choice. Or they are also delicious cold.
Dina LeClair says
Simple and amazing! These are full proof!
Mari says
Inexplicably delicious!
Kathleen G says
These were excellent! I made them with my 7-year-old son. We did a batch of vanilla and a batch of chocolate. Even my husband loved them, and he eats omnivore.
I had a problem though. I am not much of a baker, so I know I must have done something off. I tried to do the steps exactly.
I used veg oil and agave in the recipe. I didn’t have vanilla extract, so I used powdered vanilla.
When I baked the donuts in the donut pans the tops barely rose and they were flat on top. I even baked them longer than the 8 mins since I thought they might not be cooked based on that. The first batch I ended up at 14 mins before I just took them out so they didn’t burn. The second batch I did only 10 mins since it didn’t seem to be the amount of time. Do you know what can cause the flat tops? I made sure I used baking powder and not baking soda. Thank you so much!
CCK Media Team says
Hi, so glad they tasted good! What flour did you use, and are you at a high elevation? Is your oven calibrated? Baking powder not expired? We’ve never encountered this issue so can’t guess without more info – they are always super fluffy for us!