MINI VANILLA DOUGHNUTS | WEIGHT WATCHERS

These Mini Vanilla Doughnuts are just 3 SmartPoints per doughnut on the Weight Watchers Flex / Freestyle plan. They are light and fluffy and make a great treat. With National Doughnut week just around the corner what better treat to make today!

One of the things that I absolutely love about Weight Watchers is that no food is off limits. Even doughnuts!

I had read that National Doughnut week, which is raising funds for the Children’s Trust, is running from 12th – 19th May 2018 and as I love doughnuts, I decided it was a perfect time to play around with some doughnut recipes.

With a standard ring doughnut coming in at 11 Smart Points and a Krispy Kreme White Chocolate & almond Doughnut coming in at a whooping 18 Smart Points per doughnut, I decided to do some testing of baked doughnuts, a lower point and healthier option to fried doughnuts.

Buying a mini doughnut pan like this one means that you can make doughnuts that are more Weight Watchers friendly.  Instead of plunging the doughnut dough into hot fat and frying them like traditional doughnuts, these can be baked in the oven – a much healthier ways of cooking.

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• 110 ml skimmed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 1.5 tbsp vegetable oil
• 80 g self raising flour (if you use all purpose flour add 1 tsp baking powder)
• 45 g granulated sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 30 g icing sugar heaped tablespoons
• calorie controlled spray oil
• Metric - US Customary

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 180oC / 350oF. Grease a mini doughnut pan with a few sprays of calorie controlled spray. You really only need one or two sprays for the whole pan - don't over do it. 
2. Place the vinegar, skimmed milk, vanilla bean paste and vegetable oil in a jug and whisk together to combine. 
3. In a separate jug, mix the sugar, self raising flour (or flour and baking powder if you are using plain or all purpose flour) and salt together. 
4. Add the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together. You want the ingredients to be combined but do not over mix. 
5. Pour the batter into your greased mini doughnut pan and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. 
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for full recipes please see : pointedkitchen.com

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