Soft & fluffy low sugar PALEO cinnamon cake donuts with a buttery crumb topping! I live for sweet breakfast foods, and this healthy recipe hits the spot every time.

A Healthy, Grain-Free Donut Recipe!

On vacation every year growing up, my aunt would bring crumb cake: a white cake topped with a cinnamon brown sugar crumb topping. We would only get it for that one week in July at the lake so we would go. to. town.

It’s honestly incredible that we weren’t sick of it by the seventh day… but that’s how good it was!

Sooo I took inspiration from that summer vacation treat for this healthy, grain-free donut recipe. Nothing will beat my aunt’s beloved OG cake but these come close as a fun, gut-healthy alternative.

These homemade healthy baked donuts are SO easy to whip up for a fun weekend breakfast! This donut recipe is my go-to for when I’m craving this old favorite breakfast of mine. To be honest, baked cake donuts can never quite compare to the giant, sugary deep fried yeast donuts of my childhood. However, these donuts are the closest thing to the OG since I started following a SCD-based, paleo style diet to manage my IBD symptoms!

I’m 100% guilty of having the absolute BIGGEST sweet tooth in the morning. Sugar-filled Poptarts, peanut butter honey toast, and brown sugar oatmeal with sprinkles on top were on a constant rotation throughout my childhood! …Plus maybe a sneaky donut after church on Sunday of course(;

Ah, those were the days.

After being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis last year, I totally revamped my diet after conventional medications weren’t working. After a month on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I already noticed a huge difference in my severe symptoms! Since then, I have been able to add a few “SCD Illegal” foods back in, but I still follow a grain-free/Paleo diet to keep IBD symptoms at bay.

• Link: “SCD Legal/Illegal List”
• Link: “6 Months with UC: Diet, Body Image, Relationships”

While I miss my old childhood breakfast rotation, it’s just simply not worth the IBD pain for me! For that reason, I’ve spent the past year creating healthy, grain-free recipes that mimic all of my favorite treats.

My Favorite Paleo Ingredients:

Hands down, my favorite paleo baking trio is a blend of almond flour, coconut flour, and tapioca flour.

Although tapioca flour is not considered “legal” on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, it is one of the foods I have been able to eat again as long as my IBD symptoms are in remission. Before I began to experiment with tapioca flour in my recipes, I only used a mixture of almond flour and coconut flour. While that simpler blend of 2 flours worked, the recipes were always much more dense than their counterparts made with traditional wheat flour.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and place for dense gooey desserts. But when it comes to a donut, I NEED FLUFF.

Cue tapioca flour! Just a 1 tablespoon of tapioca flour per cup of almond flour can make a huge difference in most recipes.

Besides my trio of favorite grain-free paleo flour alternatives, I always also have eggs, coconut oil, honey, and monk fruit on hand.

• Link: “My Pantry Staples”
• Link: “My Refrigerator/Freezer Staples”

How to Make Paleo Crumb Cake Donuts

Step 1: In a large mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, tapioca flour, monk fruit sweetener, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.

Step 2: Add in the eggs, melted coconut oil, almond milk, and vanilla. Beat with an electric hand mixer until well-combined.

Step 3: Make the crumb topping: stir together almond flour, almond butter, melted coconut oil, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Set aside.

Step 4: Spoon the donut batter evenly into 6 lightly greased silicone donut molds. Top the batter in each mold with the almond butter crumb mixture and bake!

Step 5: Let the donuts cool completely before turning them out of the molds. Drizzle with melted coconut butter & enjoy!

More of My Favorite Healthy Breakfast Recipes:

• Paleo Lemon Beetroot Mini Muffins
• Grain-free Pumpkin Spice Donut Holes
• Single-Serve Cinnamon Roles
• Paleo Collagen Banana Bread
• SCD Cookie Dough Protein Pancakes

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