Let’s talk more donut holes. (see my recipe for the triple chocolate ones here). This will be the last sweet treat recipe for a while because today I started the 21 Day Sugar Detox created by Diane Sanfilippo. She’s also the author of Practical Paleo & Mediterranean Paleo Cooking! I have plateaued and haven’t really lost any weight in the past month, and I’m thinking I need a reset. I am super good about eating a clean diet, but I thought I’d try something new. We are talking eliminating every fruit or food that has sugar (or fake sugar) except for green bananas and green apples. I don’t eat a lot of fruit in general, so I’m hoping that this might not be too bad, pending the fact that at some point during the day I usually have some dark chocolate. 21 days isn’t too long, right?
These cinnamon vanilla donut holes are actually on the less sweet side, my husband didn’t like them as much as the chocolate (of course). But I thought they were awesome & would definitely eat these as a snack all. the. time.! And of course they are paleo and gluten free, so go make these - what are you waiting for?!!
- ¾ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
- ¼ cup coconut sugar, honey crystals, or stevia/truvia
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon + more for dusting
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees if using a cake pop mold, or plug in your cake pop maker
- Beat egg & coconut sugar together in a bowl
- Add egg, vanilla extract, almond milk and coconut oil to egg/sugar mixture & mix well
- In a separate bowl, sift cinnamon, baking soda & almond flour together
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture & mix well
- Add batter to the mold or cake pop maker (I find you get the most rounded shape from overfilling the mold a little bit)
- Bake for 10 minutes in the oven, or 7-8 minutes in a cake pop maker
- Repeat for second batch (you should get 15-18 donut holes)
- When cool, remove from cake pop mold & dust with extra cinnamon
