Who doesn’t love hot jam doughnuts on a cold winters day. Covered with cinnamon and sugar and filled with jam. Yum. For these jam doughnuts I have replaced the flour with finely blended desiccated coconut which eliminates the high carb and gluten content. The jam is made from fresh strawberries and sweetened with stevia. The cream is made from ricotta.

Ingredients for doughnuts:
2 eggs
2 cups of desiccated coconut
5 dates
2 stevia tabs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbs of coconut oil
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1-2 tsp of cinnamon
1-2 tsp of nutmeg
1 dash of hot water

The ingredients for jam and ricotta cream is enough for two serves of doughnuts. If don’t want left over jam and ricotta, halve the below ingredients

Ingredients for strawberry jam:
1 punnet of strawberries or any other berries
2 stevia tabs

Ingredients for ricotta cream:
1 250g tub of ricotta cheese
2 egg yolks
2 egg whites
1-2 tsp of vanilla essence
3-4 stevia tabs

Method for doughnuts
Pre-heat oven to 180dg
Crack two eggs into a bowl and whisk
Blend two cups of desiccated coconut into a fine powder and add to bowl
Melt 2 tbs of coconut oil in microwave and pour into bowl
Finely chop 5 dates and add to blender with a dash of hot water
Blend until dates become a fine paste and add to bowl
Add remaining ingredients and stir well

Add patty pans to a muffin tray
Spoon one tbs of doughnut mixture and roll into a ball and add to each patty pan
You may need an additional muffin tray or patty pans for excess mixture

Bake for 20 minutes
Once removed, allow to cool

Method for ricotta cream
Crack two eggs and separate the yolks and whites. Place the yolks in one bowl and whites in another bowl.
Add two stevia tabs to the egg yolks and with a high speed beater, beat until the yolks are a thick texture and pale in colour. Then add the yolks to the ricotta
Add vanilla essence to the ricotta and beat for 30 seconds
Using the high speed beater, beat the egg whites until they rise and are fluffy
Add the egg whites to the ricotta mixture and fold through with a spatula
Check if ricotta mixture is sweet enough, if not add extra stevia or vanilla essence

Method for strawberry jam
Chop strawberries then place in a blender
Blend until the consistency is half liquid and half strawberry chunks
Pour strawberries into a saucepan on low heat
Add 2 stevia tabs to sweeten
Keep stirring jam while it is heating
Once jam has started to bubble, pour into a bowl or glass