IN THE KITCHEN
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A healthy, happy sweet tooth Crave Bakehouse, a producer of nutritious doughnuts, wants to ‘make your taste buds sing.’
ven the healthiest of eaters would need incredible willpower once inside a doughnut shop. Nicely arranged in a display case are those sweet, plump, frostingcovered circles of dough. The eyes wander to the Boston cream doughnut, then to the glazed, then to the ones frosted with vanilla and covered in rainbow sprinkles. The stomach growls and the mouth waters. They’re fluffy, sweet, and inexpensive. They’re also calorie bombs. The average glazed doughnut contains 240 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Not to mention there’s very little nutritional value.
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What’s a health-conscious doughnut lover supposed to do? If you’re Barbara Cook and Alyssa Gorospe, you turn your love of doughnuts into a business—with a guilt-free twist. As owners of Crave Bakehouse, located at 303 N. Grove St. in Eustis, they’re making doughnuts that are gluten-free, sugar-free and diabetic-friendly. Their products are compatible with the Paleo diet, which focuses on healthy, whole foods, and the ketogenic diet that encourages participants to consume less than 20 grams of carbohydrates daily. They opened their company in July. Within one month, they found themselves shipping 1,550 doughnuts each week to consumers across the country who desire the food’s warm,
soft sweetness without the fat, calories and sugar of traditional recipes. Some of the flavors offered include: blueberry cake (3 net carbs), cinnamon sugar (2 net carbs), frosted chocolate cake (4 net carbs), chocolate peanut butter drizzle (4 net carbs), glazed pumpkin spice (2 net carbs), orange coconut (3 net carbs), butter pecan (3 net carbs) and lemon poppy streusel (3 net carbs). Each is made with coconut flour instead of all-purpose flour and is infused with coconut oil, natural sweetener, baking powder, eggs and xanthan gum, a common food additive that stabilizes ingredients from separating. Curbside pickup is offered for locals. They ship to most states with the exception of Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Half a dozen doughnuts range from $18 to $23, and
Photos: Anthony Rao
STORY: JAMES COMBS
