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?
I’m so excited for healthy Krispy Kreme doughnuts! I’m from NC, AKA the birthplace of Krispy Kreme and I loved them growing up! But now between the lard and gluten I just can’t do them anymore. If only I could eat your doughnuts in the Krispy Kreme challenge I would actually participate!
I love your blog because everything is delicious. Don’t feel pressured to change a thing. Keep doing what you’re doing! 🙂
International dessert suggestions: black rice pudding, kueh lapis, sticky coconut rice with mango or banana. 🙂
Ever see Julia & Julia? I need to change my name to Katie and do a Katie & Katie!! My hubby said I have to wait until he retires from the military first, because he would fail his Physical Training tests! Haha!
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Oh please PLEASE do some french desserts like fruit and chocolate tarts! Or pastries, such as a religieux. My personal favorite, however, is a tarte amandine aux framboises et chocolat (an almond paste tart with raspberries and chocolate chips!)
So perfect for a Saturday morning! I wonder if my family will know they are healthy? Going to make these now! Have a great weekend!
PLEASE come up with an egg free, grain free, gluten free,soy free, sugar free pancake. Maybe one that includes protein powder.
I know this is a challenge!
Thanks!!!
I know this isn’t from Katie’s site, and it’s not from anything I’m affiliated with either, but…
http://www.blogilates.com/recipe-index/low-carb-high-protein-pancakes
Just replace the egg with applesauce or more banana (she says it works in the comments, at least)!!
I would love to make these donuts, but I need to get a donut pan first.
Everyone else already named them, but I will second them! Tres leches Cake, Indian rice pudding, Indian sweet cheese balls, baklava, Thai coconut pudding. I would especially love to see tiramisu, cannoli, and mochi recipes. Looking forward to it! 😀
How fun! How about a flan? I love it but never get it anymore.
Brilliant timing! Scotland’s first Krispy Kreme has just opened here in Edinburgh and I might be one of the few who aren’t donut-mad enough to queue for hours just to get one, along with those funny hats. I’ve never really liked the greasy fried ones but these look lovely and light!
In terms of international desserts, I agree with those who have voted for baklava and Indian-style sweets! I work in a posh restaurant that’s got a dessert on the menu: poached fruits with a coconut pannacotta, which sounds delicious…the only problem is the gelatine! Maybe you could vegan-ify it with agar, or the like?
Ideas for Scottish/British desserts:
Cranachan is a traditional Scottish one that’s toasted oats, fresh raspberries, honey and whipped cream (often whisky-flavoured). I’d bet your coconut whipped cream would be perfect!
Hobnobs are a favourite biscuit here, a sort of oat biscuit, and the best are the chocolate-covered ones!
Sticky toffee pudding. If you’ve not had it before, it’s lush and amazing and possibly the greatest thing you could ever ingest on a winter’s evening.
Hey, let’s not diss the Krispy Kreme Challenge…certainly not the healthiest workout, but they raise a lot of money for the NC Children’s Hospital, which is a really important cause. Healthy eating is a good thing, but there are also other good things too: like supporting families who have a child with cancer. Just a thought.
I would love to see Tiramisu on the blog 🙂
Oh sorry, I definitely was’t trying to bash the cause that the run supports. I just couldn’t imagine eating that many doughnuts and then trying to run back! 😉
There’s a vegan flan recipe on PETA’s website that could be given a CCK makeover…http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/Vegan-Caramel-Flan.aspx
Hi Katie. Thanks for this recipe. I’m curious. Since you don’t have much of a sweet tooth, would you use less sugar and/or stevia than shown in the recipe if you were making these for yourself? Thanks.
I wouldn’t cut back on the sugar, for texture purposes. You can easily omit the stevia.
Hello, Chocolate-Covered Katie! I’m so happy to discover your site and your luscious, healthful recipes. I’ve got a list going of the ones I want to try out. I can tell they will be yummy even before I’ve baked a single one. Thanks for your creativity and for showing everyone we don’t have to give up our favorite foods in the name of health!
I would love it if you made a healthy recipe for tres leches cake! It’s a Latino specialty.
So is the vinegar just intended to sour the milk? If so, I’m SO making these today with kefir instead 🙂