These healthy blueberry donuts are my favorite vegan spring treat! They’re soft, sweet, and bursting with juicy fresh blueberries. These donuts are light and nutritious, but taste just as goods as the ones you’d pick up at your local bakery. Serve these healthy blueberry donuts warm with a drizzle of blueberry glaze – YUM!

How Healthy Blueberry Donuts Came To Be

I love all food, but there is a special place in my heart for donuts. It doesn’t matter what time of day it is or how full I already am, I will NEVER turn down a donut. My personal favorite are cake donuts, I love that crispy outside and crumbly inside. Now I can’t ever give up regular deep-fried gluten and dairy-filled donuts, but I will try to supplement a few of my donut cravings (they come often) with a healthier donut version when I can. These healthy baked blueberry donuts are a riff off my apple cider donuts from last fall. I really wanted those apple cider donuts, but I also wanted something that felt and tasted more like spring. That’s how fresh blueberries entered my donuts and a gorgeously bright purple-y/pink blueberry glaze found its way on top.

I should also note that these healthy blueberry donuts are in fact SO healthy, you could eat them for breakfast. This recipe includes healthy grains, healthy fats, and just a touch of sugar. If I plan on enjoying these for breakfast, I’ll leave a couple without icing and top them with almond butter instead. This extra healthy variation also makes for a great afternoon snack!

What You Need To Make Healthy Blueberry Donuts

Oat Flour – You can make oat flour by taking dry rolled oats and blending them until you achieve a flour-like consistency. There is also always the option to buy already ground oat flour at the store, but I find making it myself to be much cheaper and super easy. If you make the oat flour yourself, be sure to blend it until no large oat pieces remain. We don’t want chunks of rolled oats in our donuts, just a nice smooth flour.

Flax Eggs – If you’re not vegan, you can use 1 real egg in place of the flax eggs. Though if you’re looking to make these donuts vegan, combine 2 tablespoons of flaxseed meal with 6 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Whisk the flaxseed meal and water together, then let it sit for at least 5 minutes or until it thickens. Once the flax “eggs” are thick, you’re free to use them in this recipe.

Non-Dairy Milk – Really any non-dairy milk will work here! I used almond milk which made delicious healthy blueberry donuts. Though you’re free to use any nut, seed, soy, or even cow’s milk you’d like.

Almond Butter – Feel free to use any nut or seed butter you’d like in this recipe. I prefer almond butter because it lends little-to-no almond flavor to these healthy blueberry donuts. Another flavorless nut butter option is cashew butter. Though feel free to use peanut butter, pecan butter, walnut butter, or even sunflower seed butter if you’d like.

Blueberries – I haven’t personally tried this recipe with frozen blueberries. The fresh blueberries bake up perfectly in my opinion, and I just can’t picture the frozen blueberries doing the same. Luckily, blueberry season begins this month so you shouldn’t have any trouble picking up a fresh pint of blueberries next time you’re at the store!

Adjust This Recipe To Your Dietary Needs

• Add Dairy: Use 1 cup of cow’s milk instead of non-dairy milk in this recipe.
• Use All-Purpose Flour: Swap out the oat flour for 1 and 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour instead.
• Not Vegan: Use 1 egg instead of the flax eggs in this recipe.
• Make it Nut-Free: Use sunflower seed butter instead of almond butter.

Healthy Blueberry Donuts (V/GF)

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Recipe by Samantha Russo Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

12

donuts

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Total time

30

minutes

These healthy baked blueberry donuts are my favorite vegan spring treat! They’re soft, sweet, and bursting with juicy fresh blueberries. These donuts are light and nutritious, but taste just as goods as the ones you’d pick up at your local bakery. Serve these healthy blueberry donuts warm with a drizzle of blueberry glaze – YUM!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups Oat Flour, see Notes

• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda

• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder

• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt

• 2 Flax Eggs, see Notes

• 1 Cup Non-Dairy Milk, see Notes

• 1/2 Cup Creamy Almond Butter

• 1/2 Cup Coconut Sugar, see Notes

• 1 Tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar

• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

• 1/2 Cup Fresh Blueberries

• Flor the blueberry glaze:

• 1/4 Cup Fresh Blueberries

• 1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar

Directions

• Preheat your oven to 350° Fahrenheit and lightly grease a donut pan.
• Mix the oat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl.
• In a separate small bowl, mix together the flax eggs, non-dairy milk, almond butter, coconut sugar, apple cider vinegar, and vanilla extract.
• Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, then fold in the fresh blueberries
• Fill your donut pan with batter and bake for 20-25 minutes, then remove from molds and let cool on a wire rack.
• Add the glaze ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Then top cooled donuts with blueberry glaze.

Notes

• Oat Flour: Make oat flour by grinding rolled oats in a blender until a flour forms.
• Non-Dairy Milk: I used almond milk, but you can use any non-dairy milk you’d like.
• Coconut Sugar: You can use white sugar or cane sugar instead.

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