Baked oatmeal donuts are a fun and healthy way to start your day.
Who says donuts aren’t healthy? Baked donuts are the perfect solution. Packed with lots of nutritious ingredients. A quick breakfast for busy mornings.
Baked oatmeal donuts are made with wholesome ingredients. A fun and delicious twist on traditional donuts. Perfect for grab and go breakfasts.
What is your favourite way to start the day? Cereal, toast, or muffin? Perhaps you are one of those people that skip breakfast altogether? I am guilty of this myself, however, I never start my day without coffee, and perhaps an apple oatmeal muffin. I will say pancake muffins are a great way to start the day.
I guarantee if you try this chocolate strawberry oatmeal, breakfast just might turn into your favourite meal of the day. You will want to try this recipe for baked apple oatmeal too. If you like muffins for breakfast, these cranberry bran flake muffins are a must-try!
How about a breakfast banana split? Dessert for breakfast sounds like a plan to me. Cake for breakfast works too. This old-fashioned cinnamon coffee cake is the perfect breakfast cake.
Oatmeal is such a great ingredient to work with. From a hot cereal to start your day, or baked into tasty treats, it is nutritiously delicious. Have you tried oatmeal pancakes or overnight oats?
Baked Oatmeal Donut Ingredients
These healthy breakfast donuts might just become your family’s favourite breakfast. Great for lunchboxes too since they are nut-free.
- hemp hearts
- pumpkin seeds
- dried cranberries
- flour
- oats
- brown sugar
- oil
- yogurt
- egg
- water
- salt and baking powder
Easy Oatmeal Breakfast Donuts
This is a super easy baked donut recipe. Full instructions are in the recipe card.
Baking donuts is a much healthier alternative to the classic fried variety. If you can bake muffins, you can bake donuts.
Combine the wet and dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Fill the donut pans and bake. That’s it. You can even make these ahead of time, perfect for meal prep.
Suggestions / Recipe Tips
- If you don’t already have some (affiliate) donut pans, it’s always a great excuse to get more fun kitchen tools.
- I find using a (affiliate) large decorating tip and pastry bag makes filling the pans a little easier, but I have just used a spoon too.
- Store donuts in a container, they will keep for several days.
- You can warm them slightly in the microwave, super delicious.
- They freeze well, making them perfect for meal planning.
- Any oil will work, and you can use plain yogurt as well.
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Baked Oatmeal Donuts For Breakfast
Ingredients
- ¼ cup hemp hearts
- ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoons salt
- ¾ cup old fashioned oats
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons avocado oil
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup vanilla greek yogurt
- ½ cup water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray donut pans with cooking spray.
- Combine greek yogurt and water in a bowl, and set aside.
- Get a large bowl and combine all the dry ingredients.
- Add the egg and oil to the water/yogurt mixture. Combine well.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir to combine.
- Place your large decorating tip into the piping bag.Fill the piping bag with batter.Pipe into each donut cavity.***NOTE*** If you are not piping the batter, just use a spoon to fill the cavity.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until done. You can check the doneness with a cake tester.
- Remove from oven, let cool slightly and remove donuts from pan onto cooling rack.
Nutrition Information
Notes
Taylor Kiser
I would love to start my day with these for breakfast! They look so delicious! A must make for sure!
Gloria | Homemade & Yummy
I need to make more of these. Just in time for the grandkids to go back to school.
Sues
I love baked donuts and especially like that these are even healthier than average! I’d really like one to enjoy with my morning coffee 🙂
Gloria | Homemade & Yummy
YES having with my morning coffee is my kind of breakfast.
Tina
This idea is fantastic! I never would have thought to make a healthy baked donut before. Donut pans make sense for even, quick cooking. I’m going to have to try this, it looks so easy. It’s a win-win!
Gloria | Homemade & Yummy
I just told my grandson I will make some for his breakfast next week. Back to school they go.
Michelle Blackwood
Wow what a healthy spin on breakfast, love donuts for breakfast but the unhealthy kind, love how your recipe has all these healthy ingredients
Homemade & Yummy
These are a fun breakfast treat for sure. Hope you give them a try.
Jolina
I love baking donuts! I grabbed donut pans when they were on sale some months back and have been having so much fun making different kinds of things. These baked oatmeal donuts look so delicious. I typically have my oatmeal in the form of overnight oats but I’d love a donut…who wouldn’t?? Looks like a baked donut is in my near future.
Homemade & Yummy
These are so easy to make, and perfect for on the run too.
Sarah
I love the idea of healthy donuts! These sound great and are a good excuse to buy a donut pan!
Homemade & Yummy
These take the guilt out of donuts for sure.
Helene
Your oatmeal donuts remind me of a south indent breakfast by the looks, whose name I forgot now. They make something similar. Now we should be able to make an effort to start the year well with these babies for breakfast. 🙂
Homemade & Yummy
It is a fun and healthy breakfast for sure.
Andrea
These look GREAT! Like perfect. I am getting all the feels for this. They would be perfect for the fall morning with some tea. YUM.
Homemade & Yummy
These are totally guilt free and delicious.
Luci
These look really tasty. Since they’re oatmeal and have lots of seeds in them they have to be basically nothing so you can eat them all, right?
Homemade & Yummy
They are a guilt free, nutritious and totally delicious way to start you day, not to mention FUN to eat too!!
Stephanie
These were great. I added chia seed and mini chocolate chips and subbed 1/2 cup real maple syrup for the sugar.
Is there any way to make them even healthier? Sub another kind of flour?
Thank you! Kids loved them!
Homemade & Yummy
SO glad you liked them. I’m sure it would work with a gluten free flour blend.
April
These look great! I really need to buy a donut pan. Baked donuts are so much easier to cook and not to mention healthier!
Homemade & Yummy
I love making baked donuts. So fun!!
Constance Smith
These look great! Honestly, I rarely make doughnuts because I hate deep frying. such mess! These look like a better option 😉
Homemade & Yummy
OMG these are so delicious, and nutritious. No quilt here, so feel free to eat 2!!
Daniela
I love oatmeal but would have never thought to put it in doughnuts. What a healthy and delicious breakfast idea!
Homemade & Yummy
I have to agree with you. Hubby is bugging me to make more soon.
Kim @ Three Olives Branch
What a fun idea! There are so many dried fruits and fun foods to add!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes you could for sure play/experiment with this recipe.
Rezel Kealoha
This is a perfect recipe for my daughter to get some good nutrients in. She loves anything in donut form, but I haven’t given her an actual donut yet. Haha.
Homemade & Yummy
This is HEALTHY version…so no guilt here.