Healthy Baked Donuts
Confession time. I am honestly not the biggest fan of your typical donut. I mean yes I obviously enjoy a good Dunkin Donuts donut, but I don’t think I have ever in my life actually craved one!! I’m way more of a brownie or cookie girl, hence the amount of those recipes I have. However, I am a HUGE fan of these Healthy Baked Donuts. They are actually the first recipe that I remember sharing on here and I even made a white chocolate version for the holidays. These donuts were getting a lot of love so I figured it was time to revamp them! I made a batch the other day, added a simple & sweet glaze, and finally shot some photos that did them justice. So I now present to you the new and improved Healthy Baked Donuts. They are fluffy as can be and perfectly sweet. A light treat that would go absolutely perfect with a morning cup of coffee or tea.
What you need for these Healthy Baked Donuts!
These donuts are actually gluten free and dairy free! Without the glaze they are also refined sugar free. They are made with healthy, wholesome ingredients that will make you feel your best and are even a good breakfast option! So pretty much the opposite of most donuts!!!
Donuts
- Oat Flour: Oat flour is one of my favorite gluten free flours to use, along with almond flour which is also used in this recipe! I always make my own oat flour by simply blending up oats in a high speed blender until a fine flour is formed. However, you can also purchase it! Either way make sure your oats or oat flour are certified gluten free if you have a severe sensitivity or allergy.
- Almond Flour: My other favorite gluten free flour! I love the texture that almond and oat flour, when used together, create in a baked good.
- Coconut Sugar: I love to bake with coconut sugar! It is a refined sugar free option and creates delicious treats.
- Almond Milk: I always use unsweetened vanilla almond milk, but feel free to use regular almond milk. You could also use any milk you have on hand and enjoy!
- Eggs: Pretty self explanatory!! Gotta have your eggs.
- Oil: I have used both avocado and olive oil in this recipe, and both work! Simply use what you have available.
- Pure Maple Syrup: This recipe just calls for a touch of pure maple syrup, which is my other favorite refined sugar free sweetener! Make sure to use the good pure stuff.
- Lastly we’ve got Vanilla Extract & Salt for some flavor and Baking Powder for leavening.
Glaze
- Powdered Sugar: I just used good old classic powdered sugar, but if you want or need healthier options there are definitely some out there! I would just do a little research.
- Almond Milk & Vanilla Extract
How to make these Healthy Baked Donuts!
- Set the oven to 375 degrees.
- Combine oat flour, almond flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
- In a separate bowl combine the eggs, almond milk, maple syrup, oil, and vanilla extract.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine until smooth.
- Grease a donut pan and fill each donut about 3/4 of the way.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- While the donuts are baking, work on the glaze. Simply combine the powdered sugar, almond milk, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Remove the donuts from the oven, let cool, and flip out.
- Dip each donut in the glaze and let harden.
- Enjoy!
Check out some of my other recipes!
- S’mores Dessert Granola
- Blueberry Peach Crisp
- White Chocolate Blueberry Oatmeal Cookie Bars
- S’mores Cookie Cups
Connect with me!
If you make these Healthy Baked Douts or any of my other recipes, I would absolutely love to know! Tag me @wellnessbykay on instagram so I can see and share your recreations!
Healthy Baked Donuts
- Prep Time: 20 Minutes
- Cook Time: 10 Minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 10 Donuts 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
A healthier take on the classic donut! These are made with wholesome ingredients like almond flour, oat flour, coconut sugar, and maple syrup. They are fluffy as can be, perfectly sweet, and a light treat that would go absolutely perfect with a morning cup of coffee or tea!
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp avocado oil or olive oil
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- pinch of salt
Glaze
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp almond milk
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Set the oven to 375 degrees.
- Combine oat flour, almond flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
- In a separate bowl combine the eggs, almond milk, maple syrup, oil, and vanilla extract.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine until smooth.
- Grease a donut pan and fill each donut about 3/4 of the way.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- While the donuts are baking, work on the glaze. Simply combine the powdered sugar, almond milk, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Remove the donuts from the oven, let cool, and flip out.
- Dip each donut in the glaze and let harden.
- Enjoy!
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These days though, with the growing awareness of healthy eating, oil-fried doughnuts while extremely delicious have come to be replaced by easy-bake versions, none more so convenient than using dedicated donut makers.
There are different types of donut markers available, and some of them are versatile. You can prepare various other items along with donuts so that the purchasing the appliance is worthy.
Not only these factors, but the factor of convenience also played a huge role in the selection of the Chef Buddy Hot Doughnut Maker as our number one ranking doughnut maker and donut pan.
On the inside, the plates are made of nonstick, giving you the ability baking your donuts easily and not to mention easy cleanup. With the use of this product, you can make your donuts in about 4 minutes without any hassle.
Can you use all oat flour and another plant based milk if you are allergic to nuts?
Hi Rachel! You can definitely use another plant based milk, but I am not sure about using oat flour. I have never tested this recipe in any other ways!
Hi! do you think I could sub regular white sugar for the coconut sugar since I don’t have any?
Hi Anya! Yes I think that would work.
Is there a donut pan you recommend?
I’m looking for a “healthy” pan—not nonstick.
These are simple to make, super tasty and versatile without being overloaded with unnecessary ingredients. I made them for valentines day using 1.5 cups homemade oat flour and 1/2 cup self raising flour, brown sugar, coconut oil as alternative ingredients as I didnt have the exact ingredients on hand and they turned out great. Light, fluffy, moist & tasty.
Thank you!
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Thanks Nadia! Glad you enjoyed! And thanks for sharing those swaps 🙂
I love these so much. Made them with the almond flour twice and it’s so delicious and so low on calories (I don’t use glaze) but almond flour sadly is expensive so I experimented a bit. Whole wheat flour instead of almond worked but it was way too dry and flavor was meh. Then I tried with just oat flour and that was delicious also, not as great as with the almond flour but still pretty damn good! I also added some maple extract which was lovely. I just make the oat flour from rolled oats which is so cheap <3 thanks for the tip and recipe
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Do you know how many calories per donut?
I made these! Everything used was exact ingredients except I substituted coconut sugar for swerve brown sugar and i did add 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. This recipe did not yield 10 donuts for the donut pan i have, it only made 7. I didn’t make the glaze, I was running short on time so I actually made swerve powdered cinnamon sugar and rolled them in that. They were delicious! Would definitely make these again!
Macros for the ingredients I personally used:
One donut: calories – 181
Fat – 9.9 grams
Carbs – 39.3 grams
Protein – 7.5 grams
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Loved these! The best mid-morning snack
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Can I use applesauce and not oil?
Hi, I have a nut allergy in my household. Anyway I can just use extra oat flour rather than almond flour, and oat milk?
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Can the eggs be substituted with flax eggs? I can’t eat eggs.
This donuts are absolutely delicious… I didn’t have enough almond flour so I used 2/3 of a cup of almond flour and 1/3 coconut flour, and the one cup of oat flour, they are amazing!
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I made these but instead of powdered sugar, I used Swerve confectioners and they turned out amazing! I also added some cinnamon to the dough and some espresso powder to half of the glaze. Amazing!
Thanks Meg! So glad you enjoyed 🙂
thanks for the recipe It is going to get me a exellence
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Wonderfully delish! Soo easy. Hisband loved them! Thank you 🙂
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Hi Sheryl! That’s so great to hear! I’m glad you enjoyed 🙂