Protein donuts (no sugar, no flour!)

 

img_20151201_170830-01.jpegHello everybody! Happy first day of December! This is the most beautiful month of the year, so I guess we should celebrate that! We are in the holiday season so I have a super delicious dessert for you to serve your guests and friends. As you guessed I made healthy donuts, healthy meaning no added sugar, low in carbohydrate, it’s gluten free, has no flour, it’s not deep fried and it has lots of protein!

Here is the recipe:

img_20151130_131606.jpgIngredients: 

2 scoops of vanilla protein powder

2 tablespoons of konjac flour

2 eggs

2 tablespoons of coconut oil

1 small scoop of stevia or sweetener of your choice

1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

2 tablespoons of coconut milk (fat version from the can)

1/4 tablespoon of baking soda

img_20151201_180225.jpgGlaze: 

40 gr cream cheese + 2 tablespoons of raspberries = pink donuts

40 gr cream cheese + cocoa powder + stevia =chocolate donuts

almond butter + some grounded walnuts = almond butter donuts

40 gr cream cheese + cinnamon = cinnamon donuts

40 gr cream cheese + Walden farms sugar free caramel syrup = caramel donuts

Directions:

  1. Mix the dry ingredients first
  2. Mix the wet ingredients
  3. Incorporate the dry ingredients gradually in the wet ingredients, you can do all this in a food processor
  4. Grease your donut pan with coconut oil and bake it for 12-15 min, keep an eye on them!
  5. When they are don, let them cool for 10 minutes then you can be creative with the glaze and toppings!
  6. Enjoy!!

 

 

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