Healthier Lemon Poppy Seed Donuts

Healthier Lemon Poppy Seed Donuts

Recipe by Yoly from allrecipes.com

40 Mins.

Ingredients

12

12 servings

  • cooking spray
  • ½ cup granulated sugar substitute (such as Swerve®)
  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest (Optional)
  • 1 large egg, at room temperature
  • 2 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon lemon extract
  • ½ cup almond milk, at room temperature
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
  • 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar substitute (such as Swerve®)
  • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon almond milk, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest (Optional)
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 2 donut pans with nonstick cooking spray.
  • Place granulated sugar substitute and lemon zest in a bowl. Mix until zest is fully coated with sugar. Add egg, butter, lemon juice, vanilla, and lemon extract. Add almond milk and mix until well incorporated.
  • Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add to the sugar mixture. Fold in poppy seeds. Divide the batter evenly among the donut pans.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a donut comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and cool completely.
  • While the donuts cool, make the icing. Mix powder sugar substitute, lemon juice, almond milk, lemon zest, vanilla, and salt together in a bowl. Set a rack over a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Dip donuts into the icing and place on the rack until glaze sets, 2 to 3 minutes.

Nutritional Facts

Per 12 servings

  • Calories: 88
  • Carbohydrate: 40g
  • Fat: 4g
  • Fiber: 1g
  • Protein: 2g
  • Sugar: 1g

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