Easter Donuts are adorable baby chic easter donuts that will impress all of your guests at your Easter dinner table! These healthy baked donuts are easy to make and will please children and adults alike! This easy donut recipe can be made on repeat over the Spring season. Made with flour, eggs, Greek yogurt, and candy melts, this is one healthy donut recipe you'll make again and again!
Healthy donuts easter donuts are perfect for Spring. Be sure to bring these cute little chicklets out at Easter! This easy Easter dessert baked donuts recipe pairs well with my Asparagus Puff Pastry need a cocktail for Easter? Try my Blueberry and Peach Vodka Spritzer for a refreshing, fruity twist. Chocolate Rice Krispies Treats also make a lovely Easter dessert that's perfect for the kiddos! Looking for some delicious dips for Easter? Try my Smoked Pimento Cheese which is a fan favorite around here or my Salsa Con Queso recipe which is really, really good.
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🍩 Ingredients For Baked Healthy Donuts
What you need for Easter Doughnuts these Easter themed donuts use minimal ingredients and make a great healthy baked doughnuts recipe right in your own kitchen!
Easter Donut ideas ingredients for the easiest donut recipes
- Buttermilk
- Sour Cream
- Yellow Candy Melts
- Sea Salt and nutmeg
- Sugar or coconut sugar
- Candy Hearts
- Green Sprinkles
- Candy eyes
- Baking powder
- Vanilla extract
- Melted coconut oil
- Flour
- Eggs
- Donut pan
- candy melter
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🍩 How To Make Easter Donuts
Treat Yourself with These Healthy Baked Doughnut Recipes
These donuts are similar to easter donuts krispy kreme and are much healthier! Krispy Kreme Easter Donuts
Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Step 2: You don't need to grease the donut pan if you are using a rubber donut pan like this one.
Step 3: Combine the dry ingredients. Add the sea salt, nutmeg, flour, and baking powder to a mixing bowl and combine well.
Step 4: Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Add the buttermilk, sour cream, eggs, coconut oil, and the vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
Step 5: Your donut batter is now prepared! Place donut pan on cookie sheet.
Fill each cup ¾ full using a spoon.
Step 6: Place the donut pan in the middle oven rack.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until tops spring back.
Step 7: Remove from the oven. Let donuts cool for 10 minutes. Turn the pan over onto the cooling rack and gently push the donuts down with your fingers.
🍩 Let's Make Our Donut Icing and Decorate Our Donuts 🍩
Step 8: While your donuts are cooling, prepare the chocolate. You can easily melt the chocolate using a candy melter or the old-fashioned way on the stovetop. Fill a saucepan with 1-2 inches of water. Place on the stovetop and bring to a boil. Place a glass bowl on top of the saucepan. Add chocolate in the glass bowl and mix frequently, ensuring that all the chocolate incorporates and melts consistently (2 to 3 minutes).
Step 9: Dip your donuts quickly into the melted chocolate until well-coated. Add the eyeballs to the bottom of the donut using the melted chocolate and the candy hearts to make the chicken mouth. Add chicken hair using decorative frosting, and some sprinkles. You now have easter chicklet donuts.
These Easter donuts are similar to dunkin donuts but a lot healthier. Spring donuts mini egg donut tim hortons tim hortons easter donut wilton donut pan recipes.
These donuts taste similar to cake donuts with a healthy twist!
🍩 Frequently Asked Questions 🍩
How To Make Healthy Baked Donuts?
- The key to making healthy baked donut recipe is to use minimal sugar or substitute sugar with coconut sugar.
- We are baking the donuts versus frying them.
- This makes them a lot healthier than traditional donuts.
How To Make Easter Donuts
- The way this baked donut recipe becomes an easter donut is all in how we decorate the donut. By adding eyes, a heart mouth, and frosting, we have turned these into easter chicklet donuts.
These healthy doughnuts are easy and fun to make and an activity the entire family can jump in on!
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📖 Recipe
Easter Donuts
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 4 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 pinches salt
- 2 pinches nutmeg
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup low fat buttermilk
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil or vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Decorations For Easter Donuts
- 1 bag yellow candy melts
- Decorative Icing
- Candy Eye balls
- Candy Hearts
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400-degrees farenheit
- Do not grease the donut pan
- Combine the dry ingredients. Add the sea salt, nutmeg, flour, and baking powder to a mixing bowl and combine well.
- Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, the buttermilk, sour cream, eggs, coconut oil, and vanilla extract, and mix until well combined.
- Your donut batter is now prepared! Place donut pan on cookie sheet. Fill each cup ¾ full using a spoon.
- Place the donut pan in the middle oven rack. Bake for 12-15 minutes until tops spring back.
- Remove from the oven and wait 10 minutes or until the panis touchable. Turn the pan over onto the cooling rack and gently push the donuts down with your fingers.
- While your donuts are cooling, prepare the chocolate. You can easily melt the yellow candy melts (chocolate) using a candy melter or the old-fashioned way on the stovetop. Fill a saucepan with 1-2 inches of water. Place on the stovetop and bring to a boil. Place a glass bowl on top of the saucepan. Add chocolate in the glass bowl and mix frequently, ensuring that all the chocolate incorporates and melts consistently (2 to 3 minutes).
- Dip your donuts quickly into the melted chocolate until well-coated. Add the eyeballs to the bottom of the donut by using a tootpick and coating the backs of them with the melted chocolate (this will ensure the candy eyes stick to the donuts) Repeat this step with the candy hearts and place the candy hearts upside down to create the mouth for the chicken. Add chicken hair at the top of the donut, using decorative frosting, and some sprinkles. You now have easter chicklet donuts.
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