National Doughnut Day is this week. We love celebrating food holidays. But we don’t love carb-heavy foods. We want to help you enjoy food holidays without worrying about your blood sugar.
To celebrate National Doughnut Day, we’re sharing four doughnuts with fall flavors to enjoy with your coffee on a cool morning!
One thing to note to avoid confusion is that the words “donut” and “doughnut” are both correct in American English. While our blog has always used the longer form, we use the form that each recipe’s author picked when sharing the individual recipes below! These are all non-yeasted cake doughnuts. So you’ll want a doughnut pan to make them!
Apple-flavored desserts are hard to make low-carb because apples are quite high in carbs, and that quickly adds up in baked goods. This recipe uses apple extract to provide the flavor of the fruit without adding carbs. A serving has 120 calories, two grams of carbs, one gram of fiber and 11 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
This doughnut is a delightful medley of fall flavors. There is a danger of overworking this batter. After combining everything other than the pecans, let it sit to come together rather than stirring it more. Then, after letting it rest for a few minutes, fold in the pecans. That will help you avoid overbeating the batter and help you get fluffy, cake-like doughnuts. A serving has 197 calories, 2.4 grams of net carbs and 18.7 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
Maple and bacon is a flavor combo that people love or simply cannot get behind. Sweet meat is something not everyone enjoys. The good news is that the bacon is a topping. So, it can be skipped if you don’t like it. This can be a simple maple doughnut if you prefer! Candied bacon became so trendy in the early 2000s that this now tastes of fall nostalgia to us! A serving has 195 calories, 3.4 net grams of carbs and 16 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
We love sweet potato pie, and these doughnuts make us think of that treat. Just like the pie, they’re mildly sweet and flavored with cinnamon. They’re made with mashed sweet potato, almond and coconut flour and ground flaxseed meal. The recipe also uses real sugar. It just happens to be low in carbs. When you make it using a low-carb alternative, you should recalculate the nutritional information. As written, a serving has 259 calories, 11 grams of carbs, four grams of fiber and 22 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
Now that the clocks have fallen back, we’re all enjoying our morning coffee in sunlight again. And nothing goes better with sunshine than a doughnut!
