September 29, 2016

Apple Cider Donut Bites

Name: Apple Cider Donut Bites
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour; 1/2 cup Swerve Sweetener; 1/4 cup unflavoured whey protein powder; 2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 large eggs; 1/3 cup water; 1/4 cup butter (melted); 1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar; 1 1/2 tsp apple extract; 1/4 cup Swerve Sweetener; 1 to 2 tsp cinnamon (depending on how cinnamon-y you like it!); 1/4 cup butter (melted)

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Keto apple cider donut bites are a delicious fall treat. Thought apple cider donuts were a thing of the past on your healthy diet? These low carb, grain-free donut bites will change your mind!

Seriously, who doesn’t love apple cider donuts? But they aren’t exactly low carb and healthy. Now with these keto apple cider donut bites, you can enjoy all the same great flavor in a healthy mini muffin!

I actually have a theory about pick-you-own apple orchards. I love them and I love going apple picking, but these places are the devil for poor low carbers such as myself. They are the snake in the Garden of Eden, tempting you not with apples but with apple cider donuts.

There’s one place in particular that springs to mind as I write this, a place on the North Shore of Massachusetts, not far from Boston. It was a fabulous place, with all the fall themed goodies you could possibly want. Apples, pumpkins, gourds of all kinds, mums in gorgeous browns and oranges, a wonderful farm stand, a petting zoo, and of course miles of orchards with all possible varieties of apples.

It was classic New England autumn entertainment and my kids loved going there. But every time we stepped out of the car after arriving, it hit me. That warm cinnamon-y smell of apple cider donuts. I swear they piped it into the parking lot to lure poor suckers into the store. See, they are the devil!

Keto Apple Cider Donuts

It was torture for this low carb diabetic gal and it was very hard to resist temptation. I confess we usually bought some for the kids and I had a bite (or two). They were really really good but really really not good for me. The fact that I could escape relatively unscathed was testament to my belief in the goodness of the low carb diet.

Keto Apple Cider Donut Inspiration

For ages now, I’ve always wanted to find a way to make a decent low carb approximation of apple cider donuts. But as apple cider is not at all low carb, I wasn’t quite sure how. I am really good at what I do but I can’t magically remove the carbs from apple cider. I can, however, mess around with apple extract and apple cider vinegar to try to get that same tangy apple flavour.

I saw these Apple Cider Donut Muffins on Baked By Rachel and they were so pretty, I decided to give it a go. I made mine in miniature so that they were more like apple cider donut holes.

I have to say, they worked far better than I had anticipated. I felt like the apple cider flavour was just about perfect, a slight sweetness with a bit of a tang. And dipping them in melted butter and rolling in cinnamon “sugar” made them taste like the real thing.

They are a little lumpier than Rachel’s beautifully rounded muffins, but such is the nature of the beast when working with almond flour. For something that satisfies the apple cider donut craving like these do, I will take lumpy donut holes any day!

These little donut bites are dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon "sugar". Low carb, grain-free and sugar-free!

Apple Cider Donut Bites

Thought apple cider donuts were a thing of the past on your healthy diet? These low carb, grain-free donut bites will change your mind!

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 164kcal

Ingredients

Donut Bites:

2 cups almond flour
1/2 cup Swerve Sweetener
1/4 cup unflavoured whey protein powder
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup butter melted
1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 tsp apple extract

Coating:

1/4 cup Swerve Sweetener
1 to 2 tsp cinnamon depending on how cinnamon-y you like it!
1/4 cup butter melted

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325F and grease a mini muffin pan very well (Use a 24 cavity mini muffin pan).
In a large bowl, whisk together the almond flour, sweetener, protein powder, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Whisk in eggs, water, butter, apple cider vinegar, and apple extract until well combined.
Divide the mixture among the wells of the prepared mini muffin pan (you may need to work in batches if your muffin pan only has 12 cavities). Bake 15 to 20 minutes, until muffins are firm to the touch. Remove and let cool 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
In a small bowl, whisk together the sweetener and cinnamon. Dip each donut bite into the melted butter, coating completely. Then roll each donut bite into the cinnamon/sweetener mixture.

Notes

Serves 12.

Food energy: 164kcal Total fat: 13.71g Calories from fat: 123 Cholesterol: 42mg Carbohydrate: 4.81g Total dietary fiber: 2.23g Protein: 6.52g Erythritol: 15g

Nutrition

Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional. I am simply recounting and sharing my own experiences on this blog. Nothing I express here should be taken as medical advice and you should consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them. I expressly disclaim any and all liability of any kind with respect to any act or omission wholly or in part in reliance on anything contained in this website.

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