It’s a cause for celebration! Not only is it Friday today, it’s also National Donut Day. Time to whip out the donut maker and crank up the heat, because it’s donuts for breakfast this morning. These donuts are so incredibly simple. All in all, it takes about 5 minutes to get the batter put together, and around 20 minutes to cook all of them – 25 minutes from start to finish and you’ll have a plate packed full of delicious, decadent morsels.
These little guys taste fantastic. Though I do recommend pairing them with something. A little sweet kick, maybe slightly savory. I chose to go with a maple bacon topping, and it was certainly just the flavor combination to push these from great to amazing.
For the maple glazed bacon donuts, you can make a quick glaze using my Keto Pancake Syrup Recipe. Simply dip the pancakes in the syrup, then sprinkle some pre-cooked chopped bacon on the top. Bon appetit!
Yields 22 Mini Keto Pancake Donuts
The Preparation
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 3 large egg
- 4 tablespoons almond flour
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons erythritol
- 10 drops liquid stevia
The Execution
1. Stick all of the ingredients inside of a container and mix together using an immersion blender.
2. Make sure that you continue to mix everything for about 45-60 seconds – ensuring a smooth batter that’s slightly thickened.
3. Heat donut maker up and spray with coconut oil to ensure non-stick properties. Pour batter into each well of the donut maker, filling about 90% of the way.
4. Let cook for 3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook for an additional 2 minutes. This is more time than my donut maker tells me to cook them, but I found that they’re slightly undercooked if you listen to the donut maker.
5. Remove donuts from the donut maker and set aside to cool. Repeat process with the rest of the batter.
This makes a total of 22 servings of Mini Keto Pancake Donuts. Each serving comes out to be 32 calories, 2.7g fats, 0.5g net carbs, and 1.4g protein.
| NUTRITION | CALORIES | FAT | CARBS | FIBER | NET CARBS | PROTEIN |
| 3 ounce cream cheese | 291 | 28.9 | 3.5 | 0 | 3.5 | 5.2 |
| 3 large egg | 236 | 15.7 | 1.2 | 0 | 1.2 | 20.7 |
| 4 tablespoon almond flour | 162 | 14 | 6.2 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 5.9 |
| 1 tablespoon coconut flour | 20 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 teaspoon baking powder | 2 | 0 | 1.3 | 0 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 1 teaspoon vanilla extract | 12 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 4 tablespoon erythritol | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 drop liquid stevia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 733 | 59.8 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 32.8 |
| Per Serving (/22) | 33 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
Mini Keto Pancake Donuts
Ingredients
- 3 ounce cream cheese
- 3 large egg
- 4 tablespoon almond flour
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoon erythritol
- 10 drop liquid stevia
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and blend together using an immersion blender.
- Continue to mix everything for about 45–60 seconds to create a smooth, slightly thickened batter.
- Heat up your donut maker and spray it with coconut oil to keep them from sticking. Pour the batter into each well, filling them about 90% of the way.
- Let cook for 3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Remove from the donut maker and set aside to cool. Repeat with the rest of the batter.
- Enjoy!
These are AMAZING!!! My kids devoured them before I could even add any toppings. Thank you for sharing all of your awesome recipes.
Is there a reason you use liquid stevia as well as erythritol? My husband can’t stand the stevia flavor and I’m wondering how could I substitute the stevia drops? I use an erythritol sweetener called Swerve that measures the same as sugar.
Yes, there is. Typically erythritol by itself will give off a slight cooling sensation in the mouth. Too much stevia will be a bit bitter. Together, they seem to blend quite well. That may be a possible reason for your husband not liking the stevia flavor – too much definitely gives a weird aftertaste. Swerve is a mixture of both erythritol and stevia 😉
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Looks delicious! Do you think this would work in a waffle maker for those of us who lack donut makers?
It might cook pretty quickly so just be careful of that. Otherwise, I think it’d work out pretty well!
What did you top them with?
I did a quick vanilla glaze with vanilla, heavy cream, and powdered erythritol. Then I topped with bacon. They were awesome!
I dont have a donut maker, but I do have a donut pan and an oven. Would that work or its mandatory to use the donut machine?
These should work without a donut maker, just keep in mind that they will not rise very much without the circulation of heat that’s allowed in a donut maker. If you have a waffle maker, though, these would do very well in there.
So I just wanted pancakes for breakfast and didn’t want to put much effort into them. I made the batter in half and made them into pancakes. I didn’t even use that much syrup because they are so good on their own! This batter is SO much like a REAL pancake! Great job!
I’ve never tried the batter as an actual pancake but that sounds like a fantastic idea. I always just hated taking photos of pancakes because I suck at getting perfect circles, haha. Really happy that you liked them, though!
What if I don’t have liquid stevia drops? Also, can I use swerve(granualted or powdered) as erythritol?
Yes, that would work just fine 🙂
I’ve loved this recipe as a pancake (don’t own a donut maker and it was too liquidy for a waffle maker). But there’s one problem-my in laws are visiting soon and while I know they’d love this too, I’d go nuts trying to make multiple pancakes. I’m thinking to bake this as a sweet cornbread style to go along with bacon and eggs and a load of pancake syrup, of course. Can you recommend, for 6 people, the glass pyrex dish size, oven temperature and timing? Thank you!
Really sorry I didn’t see this in time – but I don’t think it’d bake up that well like it does in the donut maker. You’d probably want to aim for 325-350 range while baking, but not sure on how long it’d take.
I am curious what the coconut flour is used for and can it be replaced with all almond flour? Thank you!
Using the two flours helps with the flavor and texture. You can use all almond flour if you like, but you might need a little additional flour or a little less liquid. (Coconut flour is quite dry.)
After I posted my question I did some further research about coconut flour, to look for a replacement flour. It wouldn’t be a big deal, but I have a severe allergy to coconut (trip to the hospital type). I’ll just have to experiment. Thanks for your response!
Yikes! Let me know how it turns out. 🙂
any way to add coco powder to this and make them chocolate ?
Yes! I think you can replace the coconut powder with it. We also have a chocolate donut recipe over here:
https://www.ruled.me/keto-donuts/
Lovedddd these donuts! Cut the recipe in half and still got a bit more than 11. So amazing. Whipped up some buttercream frosting too!
http://www.sugarfreemom.com…
Made some plain chocolate and cinnamon
Nice!
I added 1 tsp of Cocoa powder to the recipe for chocodonuts and they’re amazing.
Any advice for ones without a donut maker? Thanks!
I’ve tried a donut baking pan with less success (the shape was kind of funny…) and you could of course just cook like pancakes too. 🙂
how about mini muffin pan?
I think that would work!
thank you very much. I will let you know how it works.
I made these as a mini muffin. Added 1 tbs ground flax seed. I used Pyure Organic Stevia Blend instead of erythritol. Put sweetener and ground flax in food grinder together to powder them for easier blending. Made 18 muffins, 1 TBS batter per muffin, 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Brushed cooked muffins with a glaze of 1 TBS melted butter, 1 tsp coconut oil, 1 tsp Pyure and 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon. Even my sugar free critics loved them!
Is there anything on this website that doesn’t come out amazing? I have been looking for a good pancake recipe. And this is it I am so happy to have found your website. I make so many things from here ❤️❤️❤️
What erythritol are you using that has 0 carbs? All the ones I’ve seen have 4-6 g per 1 teaspoon
Erythritol will have carbs listed on the package, but they are not digested by the human body. Because of this, we don’t count the carbs in erythritol in our recipes. You can see more information on it here: https://www.ruled.me/keto-d…