Tender keto donuts with warm spices. A perfect low carb breakfast treat!
The donut pan is a pretty great invention. Yes, I know the donut purists will come after me screaming “baked donuts are not real donuts!”, but they can go shove it. Am I being harsh? Maybe but if I want to call something a donut, or a doughnut, I will do so with gusto. I will also call zucchini noodles “pasta” and grated cauliflower “rice” and whatever the heck I feel like.
Because these are MY foods, my way of eating and it makes it that much more enjoyable to call these alternatives by the names of the now forbidden originals. Just don’t call thinly sliced turkey “bacon” because then we may have a problem. Oh whatever. Call it whatever you want. Just don’t try to feed any of it to me.
I do love my donut pan and I do love to play around with flavours. Sometimes I just peruse Pinterest, looking at donuts and cakes and muffins, trying to find flavour combinations I might like to low carb (yeah, it’s a verb too!).
I saw these pretty little Baked Chai Donuts from Fresh April Flours and I knew they’d make a wonderful keto donut recipe too. All that delicious warm cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom baked into almond flour donuts? Oh yes indeed! Then brushed with butter and sprinkled with a little cinnamon “sugar”.
Morning coffee happiness!
Chia Spice Donuts
Ingredients
Donuts
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- 3 large eggs
- ⅓ cup granulated sweetener
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups almond flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
- 2-4 tablespoon water
Cinnamon "Sugar" Coating
- 1 tablespoon granulated sweetener
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon butter melted
Instructions
- For the donuts, preheat the oven to 325F and grease a 12-cavity donut pan. (If you only have a 6 cavity pan, you will need to work in batches)
- In a blender, combine the sour cream, eggs, sweetener, and vanilla extract. Pulse to combine.
- Add the almond flour, baking soda, spices, and salt and blend until well combined. If your batter is very thick, add water until it thins out. It should be scoopable but not pourable.
- Spoon the batter into the donut cavity to about ¾ full. Bake about 20 minutes, until golden brown and just firm to the touch. Remove and let cool in the pan 10 minutes, then flip out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- For the coating, in a small bowl combine the sweetener and cinnamon. Brush the top of each donut with melted butter and then sprinkle with the sweetener mixture.
Mel says
hi Carolyn. my daughter has nut allerfy. could i substitutw the almond flour with coconut flour? ive noticed most of your recipes call for almond flour. thank yiu
Carolyn says
No, not in this case. But it’s not true that most of my recipes call for almond flour. Search for my Samoa Donuts and you will see a coconut flour based donut. Use that recipe and add in the spices from this recipe.
Amanda says
These taste awesome. I was having a “I hate gestational diabetes” kind of day and decided to make these. They taste great. Now lets see what they do to my breakfast numbers tomorrow!
Carolyn says
Hope all is well tomorrow. 🙂
Amanda says
2 donuts and 98 at 1 hour post! Whoop whoop! Thanks so much:-)
Carolyn says
Fantastic!!!!
Lynn April says
Glad you found some inspo in my donuts! xoxo
Phalecia Young says
Can you use coconut flour instead of almond flour?
Carolyn says
Not in this particular recipe but you can make the base donut from my Samoa Donuts (https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2015/03/low-carb-samoa-donuts.html) and then add the spices and the butter and cinnamon “sugar” topping.
Alison Nead says
Hi Carolyn,
I don’t have a donut pan yet. Should I make these into muffins? Thanks for all your amazing recipes!
Carolyn says
You totally could make them into muffins. Not quite sure how long they would bake but a little longer than donuts because the batter is deeper that way. Will probably make 8 to 10 muffins.
Karen says
These look like they’d be great coffee dunkers!