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?
Happy Friday! These look fab, I must try making these this wkend!
Quick question: I’m gluten free, do you think coconut flour can replace spelt?
Thanks!
I wouldn’t recommend it.
Yeah, I wish I had read this before I tried it! I had to use 2/3 cup of regular milk then I had to add 2/3 cup of almond milk. They turned out…um interesting. I’m 12, and I can honestly say they were unbearably sweet. I’ve never had Krispy Kreme doughnuts through, so I can’t vouch for whether they taste the same or not.
These doughnuts look so good. I need to try and make them soon!
Hi Katie. It’s my first time commenting on your website. First of all I’m very impressed with the hard work you put in developing the recipes. Bravo! Totally fearless and it’s something I need to learn. You have great resources on your website. Thanks for sharing!
As for the international treats…I would recommend highly “international” good old breads, muffins, scones. Why not?! Or do you already have a lot of these too?! Filipino? East Indian? Italian? People like those. How about ice cream and sorbets?
These sound great – I agree with you, my issue with doughnuts is always that they taste too sweet or too greasy so baking these will help with that problem!
Quick question for you re: your powdered sugar. You offer a few different alternatives to make the sugar-free powdered sugar – which do you use when you make it as pictured?
xylitol
Oh no, Katie! What happened to the new and improved blog you had on the 20th? It was so beautiful, organized, stylish, and sophisticated! Plus, if was your best blog look yet! Why did you change it? I love your blog, but I can’t say the same for this “newer new one”! Please change it back!
What are you seeing? It shouldn’t look any different. 🙂
Those look like trouble!
I like the idea of croissants! Is it possible to make a healthy croissant? I’m sure you’ll be able to do it Katie! Also I love mochi and green tea flavored things. Since you spent some time living in Japan and China, it would be awesome to see some authentic Asian desserts healthified and veganized!
You know, I’m glad that you said that you’re not a fan of Krispy Kreme–I’m not either! A lot of friends like to gather there and for a long time I dreaded those outings because I thought the donuts were gross. Some of the non-glazed donuts are good, but the glazed ones that everyone likes are just too sugary for me.
I guess “food runs” are popular in some circles! A fraternity during college had a run called the “Chipotle Relay”. In this run, you’d from campus to the nearest Chipotle (about 1.5 miles), consume an entire Chipotle burrito, and then run back to campus. I wasn’t a runner back then but I heard a LOT of horror stories about people getting sick during that run.
Katie, I was just thinking I’d love to see you do a French macaroon, and you ask about international suggestions!
It’d be tricky because they’re egg based, so you probably haven’t tried it before. I love how simple your recipes are though, and I’ve struggled making these as they’re quite fussy beasts.
Looking forward to whatever you do.
If you could make a healthy “pain au chocolate” /chocolate croissant I’d be eternally grateful. 😀
My absolute favorite “international” dessert: Tiramisu!!!
The world needs more vegan baklava recipes. Please. I’ve made attempts, but it always turns cloyingly sweet. And the delicious cloyingly sweet. And this looks so much fun. Thanks!
KATIE! It’s like you read my mind! I have been scouring the internet looking for a healthy doughnut recipe and here it is! It’s a miracle – thank you!
Hey there, Katie! I figured I should stop girl-crushing on you and living off of your recipes without introducing myself and giving my input. I think you and all of your recipes are really awesome! You and a couple of other good blogs have inspired me to create my own healthy recipe blog, although it’s just an idea right now because I’m still not really sure how to create my own recipes! But it’ll be up here one of these days! 🙂
I did the KK Challenge two years ago. 5 miles, 12 donuts, 54 minutes. 😀 …I still start gagging at the sight or smell of a freshly baked donut. HOWEVER these might become the exception!
Something that I really would like to see is CCK-ified cannolis! :))
Thanks for all that you do!
Katie you are so awesome! come visit Bklyn, NY =)
I think a vegan, healthified version of the sweet Arabic dessert baklava would be great….but I know there is honey in it so not sure how agave would work…Hmm..also maybe an Italian almond cookie? … or an Asian inspired papaya milkshake! those are so yummy but I know have tons of calories. Thanks for all the great recipes Katie! I might make the donuts for my friends tomorrow night, since one is allergic to fruit(so no fruit desserts) and the other hates chocolate (i know, it’s insane)
HugS from Bklyn!
You should make Cannoli’s 😀