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?
Hi Katie! Quick question: do I have to use apple cider vinegar or can I use regular white vinegar?
Thanks!
White is fine 🙂
I’ve been loving your blog for several weeks now — I’ve tried cookie dough pie, healthy fudge and “betterfingers” — thanks for the great recipes. I even bought a food processor so I can make more of them!
For international flair, how about pista kulfi – indian pistachio ice cream or rava kesari – a semolina dessert flavored with cardamom, saffron, golden raisins and toasted cashews. Either would be great with coconut milk.
You could also do a French charlotte – basically chocolate mousse (or you could do berry mousse) wrapped in ladyfingers. More challenging and less well known would be canneles de Bordeaux — little sweets that are custardy on the inside, carmelized and crusty on the outside, and flavored with rum and vanilla. Tricky to get right, but so darn good! Careful on the spelling if you google them though, because canelle is french for cinnamon and canneles are the sweets. 😉
Everyone else’s suggestions sound delicious, too!
YUM!!! 🙂
I would love to see some Asian-inspired recipes. I lived in Indonesia as a kid and have great memories of international cuisine. Thai sticky rice pudding tops the list, but there are endless possibilities! Good luck. 🙂
yum yum yum yum. off to try these now! I’m loving your recipes, Katie. I’m neither vegan nor vegetarian but I love your recipes as my mum and I are trying to eat better. I just made them the cookie pie the other night and even my fried-food-and-meat dad LOVED it! So good. Thank you so much! 🙂
Okay, these look delish… My mouth is watering at this very moment… OMG! CCK strikes again! So as for desserts from all around the world, anything works for me! I have the biggest sweet tooth ever so anything sweet, well, I’ll take it! (Plus, I’m not picky at all so I’ll eat anything and everything haha)
Flan, gelato, crepes, sticky rice, churros, mochi ice cream, soufflés (preferably chocolate!), taffy, baklava, thai mango sticky rice (this stuff is soooo good!), dulce de leche, and mango or coconut pudding (like the kind you can get at a chinese dim sum place!). That’s all I can think of at the moment haha but the all around the world recipe idea is awesome! 🙂
-Grace 🙂
rice pudding, bread pudding, italian cookies (pignoli, pizzelle, rainbow cookie cake, zeppolis), plaintain chips, soufflé (chocolate & vanilla)
These look amazing! I’m so picky about doughnuts, and these look like the kind I like.
As for international desserts I like a Serbian sweet, I think they’re called bajadera. They look like little Nanaimo bars (taste is quite different, though). Gulab jamun is also amazing.
You should try to make a healthier version of a the popular chinese dessert Nian Gao (: it’s a sweet chewy rice cake! Or steamed Asian buns
Katie, please please PLEASE do a cannoli recipe!!! I ate them all the time as a little Italian kid, except once my lactose intolerance got bad, no more cannolis 🙁 Then I went vegan so forget about it! Haha
I’d love you forever and ever (I mean, I already do, but still) if you figured out a healthy vegan cannoli <3
These look really cool, they would probably be great with chocolate coat!
I think you could do a lot of great things with mochiko rice flour. It’s chewy and super yummy in sweets!
Also, as a Russian, I also second a recipe for Russian Blini. I just made a post on them, myself, and seeing them veganized would be super. If you could make Russian bird’s milk candies then that would be the best thing ever!
I lived in Egypt for work for a few years and I discovered my all time favourite dessert there, Om Ali! It’s heavenly! Not vegan, but I’m sure you could work something out 🙂
Katie can you use coconut flour instead for this recipe and if so is it the same amount as you would all purpose flour??
I don’t think so, but I haven’t tried.
Why capitalize on the Krispy Kreme name in your blog title if A: they taste nothing like Krispy Kremes, and B: you’re just going to insult the brand – the brand name you just used in your title to make your recipe look more appealing? After all, “Healthy Krispy Kremes!” gets way more attention than “Healthy Vanilla Doughnuts!” Surely you realised that tons of people would read that and think “ooh, healthy Krispy Kremes? I’m all over it”, and eagerly read on, only to read the next sentence- “do these taste like Krispy Kremes? No, and they’re not supposed to”. Hmmmm.
It just makes no sense. If they’re nothing like Krispy Kremes, and you dislike them so much,, why use the name in the title?
If you could figure out a way to make Vegan French macaroons, I don’t know what I’d do with myself. Except make and eat a lot of Vegan French macaroons.
I TOTALLY agree with Melissa!!!
crepes!
mango sticky rice
tres leche cake
chinese mints