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Ingredients for healthy donuts
How to make
Preparation Video
Tips
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Recipe Video
Healthy donuts: delicious & colorful.
Delicious and colorful donuts with 4 different frostings are the healthy versions of your favorite snack. Normally the donuts are fried in the oil. In fact this makes them so unhealthy and fat. For this healthy donut version you bake them in the oven. Following this one serving has only 5 g of fat and is very low in calories. Frostings make donuts even more tasty – I picked my 4 favorite frostings. Check them out – I am sure your favorite frosting is also included!
Let me know if not – I will develop it as soon as I hear from you. The chocolate frosting is very simple and consists only of melted chocolate and some nuts (you can also use only chocolate) and caramel frosting consists only of natural ingredients and does not contain any refined sugar. Enjoy the healthy versions of your favorite snack!
How to prepare healthy donuts
Equipment
- 1 Mixer
Ingredients
- 350 g quark cheese*
- 200 g whole wheat flour
- 1 egg
- 30 g maple syrup
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
- salt
- 10 g plant milk
Frosting for donuts
- Chocolate 4 donuts : 40 g dark chocolate*
- grated walnuts
White icing (3 donuts) :
- 50 g powdered sugar 3 donuts
- 1 tbsp cold boiled water
- grated chocolate
Caramel frosting (4 donuts):
- 1 tbsp almond butter
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 0,5 tbsp coconut oil
- Pinch salt
Icing with powdered sugar
- 10 g powdered sugar
Instructions
- Turn on the oven to reach 180C (or 356F) before you put healthy donuts inside.*
- Mix 1 egg, 30 g maple syrup, pinch of salt, 1 tsp vanilla sugar, 1 tbsp vegetable oil. Add 250 g of quark cheese and mix everything.
- The quark cheese has different consistency depending on the country. If your quark cheese has grainy structure, then add 30g of sour cream. If your quark cheese is more like paste or joghurt, you don’t need to add anything.
- In a separate bowl add 200 g whole wheat flour and 1 tsp baking powder. Stir and add everything to a wet mixture. Do not add all the dry mixture at once, add ⅓ and mix, then again 1/3 , mix and then add the rest.
- Knead everything to a smooth dough. Cut into 12 pieces and form round balls. Create holes in the donuts and place them into a baking tray. Bake them at 180 C or 356 F for 25 minutes.*
Chocolate frosting
- Break chocolate into pieces and put it into the bowl. You can melt chocolate in the microwave or over the pan with boiling water. If you are melting chocolate in the microwave, put a bowl into the microwave and microwave in 20 seconds increments till the chocolate is melted.
- You can also melt it over the pan with boiling water. Heat the water in a pan and place a bowl with chocolate pieces over it. Once 50% of chocolate is melted take a pan from heat and start stirring yourself. The rest of the chocolate will melt, because it is already covered with hot melted chocolate. Do not leave it on the heating until it melts completely ´- the chocolate can become lumpy.
White icing
- Sieve powdered sugar and start adding cold boiled water. Do not add everything at once! Add a little bit and mix properly. Keep adding a little bit of water till you have white creamy structure.
Caramel frosting
- Melt coconut oil and add maple syrup. Mix well and add almond butter and a pinch of salt.
- Icing with powdered sugar
- Dust 10 g of powdered sugar on donuts.
Nutrition
Tips & hacks for the recipe
*Turn on the oven beforehand to have a temperature at 180C (or 356F) when you put healthy donuts inside.
*Check donuts and take them out as soon as they bake through.
*If you like more milk chocolate, melt milk chocolate for your frosting.
