If there’s one thing that my husband really loves, it’s chocolate. Lots. Of. Chocolate. We aren’t big donut people, but I was in the mood to make, or try to make, homemade donut holes. Why not, right? Triple chocolate donut holes, nonetheless. Gluten free & paleo. No refined sugars. It took a couple of tries, but this version is a winner. My husband ate the whole batch & repeatedly told me he would eat lots more (good to know). Did I mention they were triple chocolate? I also made a batch of cinnamon vanilla, but I’ll post those later. I don’t need to overload you all on sugar, do I? I’m thinking of doing a little detox myself soon.
Paleo & Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Donut Holes
Author: Meg Staples
Recipe type: donut holes
Cuisine: donut
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Serves: 15
Ingredients
- ¾ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
- ¼ cup raw cocao + more for dusting
- ¼ cup enjoy life chocolate chips
- ¼ cup coconut sugar, honey crystals, or stevia/truvia
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- 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 cocao, baking soda & almond flour together
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture & mix well
- Gently fold in chocolate chips
- 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 cocao powder
Oh these look delicious. And the donut hole maker is one of the places that I’ve actually had a lot of luck using a gelatin-egg replacer for 1 egg so I can make these for my egg-free son! Yay! 🙂
They barely lasted the weekend at my house, Michele! I’ll bet he will love them!!
I’m confused with steps 2 and 3. The recipe calls for 1 egg but then you ask for another egg to mix with the wet ingredients to pour into the egg -sugar mix. My batter didn’t turn out like a normal doughnut recipe:( what do you suggest?
Hi Jess, did the recipe turn out? I’m sorry, this comment post did not show up for me (it marked it as spam), but I just found it! I want to trouble shoot with you! Meg