The Fluffiest Salted Caramel Donuts

These fluffy donuts are exactly what you need to make for your next weekend bake! Fluffy, moist and glazed in salted caramel it’s hard to believe that these donuts are actually healthy!

These vegan salted caramel 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 73 calories per donut – with the salted caramel glaze! 

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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 glazed in refined sugar-free salted caramel
• Each donut is 73 calories (still mind blowing to me!)
• Super easy to whip up, they only take 20 minutes, from start to finish!

HOW TO MAKE Salted Caramel 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. See the text below to read how to make the salted caramel perfectly!
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. Finish the donuts off with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt, unsweetened shredded coconut and cacao nibs.

How to Make the Vegan Salted Caramel

1. Begin by adding in the coconut sugar (which you can substitute with monk fruit sugar), date syrup, tahini, cashew milk and salt into a pot. You could alternatively use another smooth nut butter like cashew butter if you don’t have tahini. Turn the pot on medium-high heat and gently stir.
2. After about 30 seconds, the mixture should begin to bubble and foam. Once the caramel reaches this stage you want to keep stirring constantly for 1-2 minutes until the color has changed from a light creamy beige to a darker amber color.
3. Turn the heat off and continue to stir the caramel. Once the bubbles have subsided, you can run you spatula throughout the mixture. If the leaves a clean line when pulled though the caramel, you know it’s done. Keep in mind that even though the caramel may look runny, it will set as it cools.
4. Pour the caramel into a shallow bowl to easily dip the donuts into.

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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