Donuts don’t have to be off-limits on a weight loss journey! You can still eat them with this healthy recipe for baked blueberry donuts!
Do you think donuts are off-limits on Weight Watchers or when dieting? Well, think again because you can have donuts on Weight Watchers just as long as you are still in your points limit for the day or calories. These blueberry donuts are baked in a donut pan and are only 3 smart points for one donut!
If you like donuts please try Bacon Pancake Donuts, Baked Chocolate Donuts, or Baked Apple Cider Donuts.
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Why You Will Like This Recipe
I know a lot of people will come here and they think that a donut will ruin their diet or that donut is too high in points for me. These donuts are made with healthy ingredients such as unsweetened applesauce, egg whites, and milk.
There are little amounts of sugar used in this recipe because the blueberries give them enough sweetness for my taste. One thing that I do when I want to bake sweet things like this is to save up my points for them or eat more zero point foods to be able to enjoy something like this.
You can also freeze these baked donuts for later if you don’t want to eat them all right away.
Ingredients Needed for Blueberry Donuts
To make these donuts more WW friendly, I used less sugar, egg whites, unsweetened applesauce, and self-rising-flour. Self Rising flour is a little bit lower in points versus regular flour and already has baking soda or baking powder added to it, so that it doesn’t need any type of yeast or leavening agent.
- Self Rising Flour – is a type of flour that already contains baking powder and salt, which are essential ingredients in many baked goods.
- Sugar – Or regular granulated sugar, I do not use sugar substitutes in any of my recipes but if you know the conversions feel free to do so
- Unsweetened almond milk –
- Vanilla – It is made by macerating and soaking vanilla beans in a mixture of water and Vodka. Use a good pure vanilla instead of the imitation vanilla extract.
- Unsweetened applesauce is used instead of oil
- Blueberries
- Powdered sugar – Is also known as confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar, it is a finely ground sugar that is commonly used in baking and dessert making.
- Milk – Dairy does not like me at all so I go for a lactose free milk such as Fairlife or almond milk. It also has more protein in it.
- Blueberries
- See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to Make Baked Blueberry Donuts
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In a bowl mix together the dry ingredients: flour and salt.
- In another bowl mix together the wet ingredients: sugar, milk, eggs whites, and applesauce. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until well blended.
- Add blueberries to the donut batter and gently fold them in.
- In a dough pan, use a tablespoon and drop two tablespoons full of the batter into each side of the doughnut pan. If the batter doesn’t look like it will fill the hole completely use your fingers to spread the batter evenly.
- Bake for 16 minutes.
- While the doughnuts are baking make the glaze. Mix together powdered sugar and milk together and drizzle over doughnuts when they’re cooled.
- Makes about 6 large doughnuts. I have a doughnut pan with at 6 holes in it. Not the mini kind.
- 1 donut is 3 smart points.
How to freeze or store donuts for later
Did you know that you can freeze donuts? Yah, I had no clue either. I love this idea because if you make a whole batch of these donuts right away then you don’t have to gobble them all up in one sitting and you can take them out whenever you need them!
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or wax paper. Place the donuts on to the cookie sheet and then place the cookie sheet in the freezer. Allow the donuts to freeze for up to 3 hours.
- When the donuts are done freezing take them off of the sheet pan and store them in plastic bags to save on freezer space.
This is the donut pan I used to make these.
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Baked Blueberry Doughnuts
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 16 minutes
Total Time: 26 minutes
Yield: 6 1x
Category: Breakfast
Method: Oven
Cuisine: American
Description
Donuts don’t have to be off-limits on a weight loss journey! You can still eat them with this healthy recipe for baked blueberry donuts!
Ingredients
Scale
- ¾ cup Self Rising Flour
- ¼ teas salt
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of low-fat milk or unsweetened almond milk
- 1 egg white
- 1 tsp of vanilla
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup of blueberries
For the Glaze: (optional)
- 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar
- 1 to 2 teaspoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In a bowl mix together the dry ingredients: flour and salt.
- In another bowl mix together the wet ingredients: sugar, milk, eggs whites, and applesauce. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until well blended.
- Add blueberries to the donut batter and gently fold them in.
- In a dough pan, use a tablespoon and drop two tablespoons full of the batter into each side of the doughnut pan. If the batter doesn’t look like it will fill the hole completely use your fingers to spread the batter evenly.
- Bake for 16 minutes.
- While the doughnuts are baking make the glaze. Mix together powdered sugar and milk together and drizzle over doughnuts when they’re cooled.
- Makes about 6 large doughnuts.
- 1 donut is 3 smart points. Regular size donuts, not mini.
Notes
WW points: 3
The batter should be a thick consistency.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 donut
- Calories: 82
- Fat: .2g
- Carbohydrates: 18.0g
- Fiber: 1.0g
- Protein: 2.4g
