The Best Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts

These 62 calorie cinnamon sugar donuts are the best baked donuts you will ever have. Fluffy, melt-in-your mouth and super easy to whip up, these will become your new obsession.

These vegan cinnamon sugar baked donuts are the easiest thing to whip up. As in you’ll have healthy fresh-baked donuts in less then 30 minutes! Not only are these donuts guaranteed to satisfy your donut craving, they are also sugar-free, vegan, healthy, and best of all…only 62 calories per donut – with the cinnamon sugar coating! 

Why You’ll Love These Baked Donuts

• Baked, not fried donuts, which means they are automatically much healthier. 
• Made of simple pantry ingredients 
• Soft and cakey
• Completely sugar-free
• Generously coated in cinnamon sugar
• Each donut is 62 calories (still mind blowing to me!)
• Super easy to whip up, they only take 20 minutes, from start to finish!

How To Make Cinnamon Sugar Donuts

1. Donut Batter: Begin by combining the dry ingredients together and then pour in the wet ingredients. Whisk to combine. It’s that easy. 
2. Fill the Donut Cavities: You can optionally transfer the batter to a ziplock bag with a hole cut in it, or a piping bag to fill the donut pan, however, I think a spoon works the best. Simply spoon about 3 tbsp worth of the batter into the donut cavities. Filling just up to the top. 
3. Bake: This takes only 12 minutes, so fast! Be sure to let the donuts cool on a wire rack. Allowing them to cool out of the pan will ensure that they don’t become soggy from the steam they create after baking!
4. Make the glaze: I recommend making the glaze while the donuts are baking to save time. Simply blend the cream cheese, frozen blueberries, almond milk and salt until it forms a smooth pourable consistency. Pour through a fine mesh sieve to remove the blueberry skins. 
5. Glaze the Donuts: Dip each donut in, twisting the donuts as you take them out to get off excess glaze. Let them dry on a wire rack. Optionally, you can finish the donuts off with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt and hemp seeds…trust me this topping combo tastes divine!

Watch the video below on how to make these donuts. Sound on!

Tips for the Best Donuts

1. When testing this recipe the most important factor is making sure to grease your donut pan. Even if you have a nonstick donut pan, a quick spritz of cooking spray will help the cinnamon sugar mixture stick. Otherwise it’ll just fall off. I chose the cooking spray method as it is the best way to keep the calories low – instead of brushing them with vegan butter – while still making sure the coating will stick.
2. In the cinnamon sugar mixture, I mixed both coconut sugar and monk fruit to keep the calories down, but still give the mixture that caramel-like flavor from the coconut sugar. Feel free to use all monk fruit or all coconut sugar! 

How to Make These Donuts GF

To make the donuts gluten-free substitute the rolled oats with gluten-free oats. Bob’s Red Mill sells GF Rolled oats for a great price if you are looking for a source. If you have a severe gluten allergy, I would suggest using a 1/3 cup of a gluten-free flour blend instead. Substitute the spelt flour with a gluten-free flour blend as well.

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