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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Someone recently pointed out that my blog—while filled with chocolate, peanut butter, and coconut—is very much lacking in international flair. Tarts, flans, sticky rice, churros… all of these things (and more) are missing from the recipe archives, and I’d like to remedy this. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated: What are some good desserts to try from around the world?
One of my favorite things are Strawberry custard tarts. If you could find a way to make them healthy, I would literally build a statue in your honor.
Wow, healthy donuts, I’m impressed! And you didn’t fry them first! These actually look better than Krispy Kreme’s which just taste like sugar to me, way too sweet to enjoy. Bravo!
How about a vegan cream tea? It’s a scone served with preserves and clotted cream (and of course, English tea and milk, which is substituted nicely with coconut milk!) If you could figure out how to make vegan clotted cream, that would be amazing!
Omg, if you could clean up flan I would be an even bigger follower than I am now!
I never really thought your blog needed more international flair, but it’s always nice to see something different.
I know the Italian Pannettone (sp?) bread would be a great thing to healthify, and as you meantioned….churros! Baked churros would be awesome!
Hi Kate,
I love your blog and recipes. I am an American living in Germany and can tell you that if you are looking for a good international recipe to try to make over into a healthier one, crepes might be a good one to start with. They are very popular over here. We live 45 minutes from France, so beignets are also very popular. Thanks for all your hard work!
I would loooove a healthier recipe for Stroopwafels, that are dutch caramel waffels/wafers. one thin waffle has around 200 calories, but they are just sooo delicious!
i also love apple strudel, but the dough is usually full of butter and sugar, so that would be awesome too 🙂
Hey Katie,
So this suggestion might not be the “international flair” quite type you were looking for, but last week I was making ANZAC biscuits, and googling for a healthier alternative to no avail. They’re biscuits that Australian army wives used to makes in the war to send to the soldiers overseas, given the ingredients in them didn’t spoil!
Happy to see a non-chocolate recipe today, I gave up chocolate for Lent (quite a feat). Almost 2 weeks in, nothing cocoa based at all! Still deciding what to have as my first treat at Easter though..
Katie, you have made a dream come true for me with this donut recipe! I cannot wait to make them later today!
As for international recipes, I would LOVE a healthy version of tiramisu, creme brulee and anything, absolutely anything, with blueberries in it! lol
These look delicious. My favourite “international” recipe is Indian burfi. It’s basically powdered nuts with spices and sugar. There’s many different varieties and a lot of them are vegan already and some are made with dates so they’re sugar free too.
I personally think your website has a nice variety of foods. A little entree and a log of YUMMY!!! If you need to branch out to international foods, how about a take on a healthy Tiramisu. As long as it quick, easy and yummy, knock yourself out!!! Also love the new header.
Made these this weekend with applesauce instead of oil and they were delish!!
I made these on Saturday, they were amazing! I used all purpose flour and vanilla almond milk. For the frosting I adding a little cinnamon to the powdered sugar. I just bought a doughnut pan a week ago, first attempt at doughnuts, a success!! Will try a GF version next.
How about cannolis?
I’d love to see your takes on traditional desserts from cuisines around the world, although I would think it would be hard to recreate if it’s something you’ve never tasted before, so it could be a tough challenge! I like the cannoli idea from other readers, and another one I’d love to see would be Portuguese custard tarts!
Hi, can I humbly suggest that you take a look at my recipe page and close your eyes over the meat portion of it (I am in France after all) and head over to the desserts? There are a lot of French desserts made over into gluten free. Maybe you can go one step further and make them over CCK style?