The healthiest mini gluten-free vegan baked donuts made with oat flour, sweetened with dates, and coated with any one of 10+ refined-sugar alternatives!
A powdered sugar donut without any sugar? Blasphemy!
I apologize to all traditional donuts and donut eaters I may have offended, but these very unorthodox Mini Powdered Vegan Baked Donuts happened, and…well…I can’t keep this powdery sweet secret to myself!
I probably already offended some just by spelling DOughNUT as donut. But who says ugh in the middle of a donut? Certainly not me.
Vegan Baked Donuts
Glazed donuts are great, but those tubes of white cakey sweet snow-covered mini donuts were always my favorite. I could never eat them without my entire face getting involved–sugar everywhere!
The last donut recipe on FF was over a year ago–this little cinnamon coconut sugar number. But those weren’t fruit sweetened nor were they made with oat flour, so of course that needed to happen. This new peek-through-pastry is gluten-free, oil-free, and fruit-sweetened.
Coating Options
Dates are an easy way to sweeten the actual donut naturally, but the coating is a little trickier. Of course you can just use powdered sugar, but I experimented with lots of different powdery coating options.
Here are some ideas listed in order form most normal to most out there…
–Powdered sugar
–Coconut milk powder or soy milk powder
-Date sugar or coconut sugar blitzed in a blender
-Unsweetened shredded coconut blitzed in a blender
-Vanilla protein powder (I love Ka’chava)
–Lucuma powder
-Tapioca starch (not super flavorful, but not bad either)
Or if you are open to branching out into other flavors…
–Cacao powder
–Carob powder
–Powdered peanut butter
Giveaway!
No donut pan? You can always make donut holes in a mini muffin pan. Or enter my GIVEAWAY below for a mini donut pan and then you will have the ability to donut for the rest of your life!
In the video you’ll see my flexy red donut pan, which I am really not a fan of. It’s just always flopping and flexing all over the place threatening to dump batter on the floor. I don’t want to curse you with that silicon structure-less situation, so I’m giving away a much more reliable donut pan: the Mini Wilton Non-Stick Donut Pan.
This post is not sponsored or anything like that, I just know the world of baking possibilities that opens up with a donut pan and I want you to be able to make healthy homemade vegan baked donuts too!
Vegan Mini Powdered Donuts
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 10 -12 1x
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup oat flour
- 12–14 pitted Medjool dates
- 1/2 cup non-dairy milk
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp tapioca starch (or cornstarch)
- Powdered sugar for coating (or see other options above)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Blend the dates and non-dairy milk on high until there are no chunks of date remaining.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and tapioca starch. Stir.
- Add the vanilla extract, lemon juice, and date mixture. Mix till well combined.
- Spoon into a lightly oiled mini muffin pan. If you don’t have a donut pan you can use a mini muffin pan to make donut holes.
- Bake for 10 mins at 350F.
- Remove from the oven. Cool. Then dip in the powdered sugar to coat right before eating.
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