Name: Keto Donuts with Vanilla or Chocolate Glaze
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 70 min
Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour; ½ cup granular Swerve (or granulated keto sweetener of choice); 1 teaspoon fresh baking powder; ¼ teaspoon table salt; 2 large eggs (at room temperature); ¼ cup melted butter; ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 cup Swerve Confectioners (or powdered keto sweetener of choice); 2-3 tablespoons whole milk (or keto-friendly milk of choice, at room temperature); ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 cup keto chocolate chips (Lily's, ChocZero, etc.); 1 teaspoon refined coconut oil

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These light and fluffy homemade keto donuts are everything you need to satisfy your donut cravings, without any of the sugar you’d find in traditional donuts. Made with a handful of pantry staple ingredients and baked, not fried, these babies clock in at only 1g net carbs per donut – and that includes the glaze!

Overhead look at chocolate and vanilla glazed donuts piled up on a plate.

🍩 What Makes This Recipe So Good

This simple recipe for keto donuts couldn’t be more amazing. Seriously. The actual donuts are made using just 7 ingredients, all of which you probably have in your keto pantry right now. Talk about super easy to make! Even better than that, though? You’ll end up with light, fluffy, perfect keto cake donuts that are baked, not deep fried, and only have 1g net carb per donut.
We included quick recipes for both vanilla and chocolate donut glazes, but you could absolutely adapt this recipe to make any flavor donuts you like! Fold blueberries into your batter. Swap out the vanilla extract for apple or banana extract and add a little cinnamon and Brown Swerve. Use pumpkin pie spice in the donuts or in the vanilla glaze. Try a little maple-flavored keto sweetener in the glaze and sprinkle crumbled bacon on top. You could even do simple powdered keto donuts or cinnamon “sugar” donuts. Just dust the baked donuts with Confectioners Swerve or a mixture of cinnamon and Brown Swerve.

👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips

I really recommend using a scoop with a release handle (like a cookie scoop) or even piping the doughnut batter into the pan cavities. You need to be careful not to overfill the donut molds or they’ll bake over the hole in the center. If you don’t fill them enough, though, you won’t get that perfect donut shape.
The keto donuts will keep baking as they cool in the pan, so take them out of the oven when they’re slightly underdone. If you wait until they’re fully baked, they’ll end up overdone and dry once they’re cooled and ready to eat.
Don’t overmix your batter! These are cake-style donuts, sure. That doesn’t mean you want them to be dense or heavy, which is exactly what will happen if you overmix.