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?
hello! you’re blog is wonderful, but may i suggest some Japanese/Asian desserts. healthy red bean or sesame ice cream, healthy boba tea, healthy mochi…halo halo, sticky rice, warm black stick rice with coconut milk. i also second (or millionth?) the baklava idea!
Oh yeah— and maybe some healthy horchata!
or biscoff cookies!
You should do a paczki recipe! Then I wouldn’t have to wait until fat tuesday every year to have one lol. Also tiramisu or creme brulee would be cool.
I’ve been wondering this for awhile now. Why is it that so many of your recipes use both, “xylitol or sugar” AND “stevia or more sugar”.
LOVE your recipes!
The stevia option is to make recipes lower in sugar, but I compromise and also use some sugar for best taste and texture.
Flan and baklava are both excellent ideas!
Hi Katie,
For international desserts, I think sticky rice with mangoes is right up your alley. So coconutty and delicious and a lot of people don’t think of it for an easy, delightful dessert. Also, there are many eastern european desserts that are very nutty and seem Chocolate-Covered Katie-ish. Potica is a Slovenian or Croatian nut roll, that is somewhat laborious to make, but maybe the flavors could be inspirational to something quick and easy? More international flavors would be great. Good luck. I always am inspired by your creativity!
I vote for healthy Indian sweets! Gulab jamun, ras malai, and laddus especially.
Also totally agree with the suggestions for vegan tiramisu. Ridiculously delicious. Can’t wait for more international flavors on CCK– so exciting!
Hi, Katie,
Your blog is not lacking in anything. It is what it is, fantastic. And complete. We know where to find recipes from afar… and quite frankly, those are often more compatible than American treats with our son’s diet (Mexican ? corn, not wheat! Thai? Coconut milk, not cow’s milk.) No, it’s the American desserts which are the hardest for us to convert or to imitate, and that you are helping us with. Thank you!
Healthy croissants would be fabulous! I would also love, love, love to see you come up with a healthier pasticiotti recipe. It is an Italian pastry filled with a creamy pudding. My family actually calls them bocconotti and they were always present at any and every family gathering with my mom’s side of the family.
This recipe will be perfect for sunday am thank you!
I have always loved authentic British scones, not the huge, dry ones in American coffee shops. I would love to see some healthy recipes for scones.
Hi:) First of all, you rock. Scones popped to mind. I know it’s not international- the scones I know are probably so far away from traditional as to be a travesty….
But I LOVE Bigby Coffee’s blueberry scones, so sweet and cakey, with a hint of lemon… and weighing in at a whopping 500(ish) calories per serving (I can’t remember if that’s for a whole scone or just a measly 1/2). I’m sure you could make that over!
Hi!
I live in Switzerland, and we have some great desserts around here for you to try out!
Vermicellis: Chestnut purred and pressed through a ricer to make a spaghetti-like sweet and nutty dessert thats really popular in autumn.
At Christmas we eat a spiced bread called Lebkuchen. Another spiced bread (that is miles better than Lebkuchen in my opinion) is Magenbrot (literlly “stomach bread”). It is an amazingly sweet spiced bread that is sometimes dipped in chocolate. I would love a healthier version because it’s impossible to eat more than two pieces even though it is amazing.
The tradition here is on your birthday, you make your own cake and bring it to school or work to share with others. One of the most popular flavours is lemon with a simple sugar glaze.
In Italy I had these flat deep-fried doughnuts with nutella on them, it was amazing!
Thanks for all of these amazing recipes, I want to go out a buy a doughnut tin after todays!
They recently did a Krispy Kreme challenge where I live (Wilmington, NC) – I saw a few people running the 2nd lap. Turns my stomach to think of it!
I’d love to see a recipe for healthy creme brulee, personally. My favorite dessert!
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Try a Tarta de Santiago – made from ground almonds – it was my favourite dessert as I walked the Camino de Santiago last fall, remaining gluten-free.
Love your blog!
Have you ever tried making any Jewish-inspired desserts, like ruggelach? SO good!