These healthy baked powdered sugar snowball donuts are perfect for breakfast or dessert, and they can be completely dairy free, egg free, low fat, and vegan.
With just five minutes of work and a little time in the oven, a batch of fluffy Entenmann’s-style donuts can be all yours!
Simply whisk all of the ingredients together, pour the batter into a pan, and wait for the donuts to magically rise as they bake.
There’s no yeast, and no frying required for these wholesomely delicious baked donuts.
Also try this reader-favorite Healthy Banana Bread
Soft, light, sweet… and the best part is that you can eat them without leaving the comfort of your kitchen.
Readers have said they like these homemade snowball donuts even better than the packaged version!
Serve with a glass of Vegan Hot Chocolate or this Whipped Coffee Recipe.
I made these donuts for what was supposed to be a special occasion – the first predicted snowfall of the season.
But while the entire northeastern United States was blanketed with soft and powdery snow, those of us in the nation’s capital ended up just getting rain.
Safe and warm inside my apartment, with donuts in hand, I watched as the rain fell slowly down the window. Who needs snow anyway, when you can have donuts???
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Snowball Donuts
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1 1/2 tsp white or cider vinegar
- 2 1/2 tbsp oil (or banana, applesauce, or almond butter for oil-free)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup spelt, white, or oat flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup sugar (or xylitol for sugar-free)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- powdered sugar or sugar-free powdered sugar
InstructionsÂ
- In a small bowl, whisk together the first four ingredients. Preheat your oven to 350F and grease a mini (or regular) donut pan or mini muffin tin. In a large bowl, combine all remaining ingredients except the powdered sugar, and stir well. Pour wet into dry, stir until just evenly mixed, and immediately pour into the donut pan. Bake 8 minutes, then allow to cool completely before removing from the trays. Pour the powdered sugar into a deep bowl, then either dip the doughnuts into the bowl or simply sprinkle powdered sugar over the tops.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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I love your recipes but your nutritional information for these donuts is so off it’s almost criminal. Even making 20 of these with the spelt and cashew milk makes each one 80 calories.
Her nutrition facts are correct. https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/recipe-questions-and-troubleshooting/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
My neighbor and I made this recipe tonight for all of the neighbor kids. Amazing! All of the children loved them, and I even enjoyed a couple myself. Thanks for a great easy recipe!
Made them today, and they’re totally OMG delicious. I made them in a small electric mini donut maker. The only thing I did differently was to add cinnamon to the batter. Highly recommended! There is just one problem – hard to stop eating them!
could I make these in a big donut pan?
I would think so, but you would probably need to double the recipe to make more and adjust the cooking time.
healthy krispy kreme donuts: https://lett-trim.today/2013/02/22/homemade-krispy-kreme-doughnuts-the-healthy-version/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Katie! I love all of your recipes and I just wanted to throw an idea out there: You could start a YouTube channel to show some of your recipes!!
I think I’m drooling a little bit. I’m definitely going to spend my afternoon making these! Also, 4-6″ of snow sounds tropical to me.. there’s about 4′-6 FEET where I am!
Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Elise
http://coffeeandpine.blogspot.ca
They look stunning! I need to try them!
What to do when you are snowed in? Make snowball doughnuts! Just made them, came out absolutely delicious. Really, really good. One question – the powered sugar mostly fell off, how do I get them to look like yours? We made full size, if that matters.
Thanks for great recipe!
Not Katie, but I put mine in a brown paper bag instead of sprinkling on top, and it worked really well.
Hi Katie! I see this is the same recipe as your homemade Krispy Kreme doughnuts but with powdered sugar of course. Did you use different flour for this? They don’t look similar to me. I am about to make the Krispy Kreme doughnuts using spelt flour as a reward for taking my psych exam early!
I think I probably used spelt flour in the first photos and all purpose in the second… But both will work; if I list a specific flour for a recipe, that means I have tested it (or have a friend who has tested it, which is often the case with the gluten-free options) 🙂
Ooooh these are my favorite donuts. Such a fun treat for a snow day – love it! Definitely going to have to try these 🙂