Baked Blueberry Donuts

Published: August 20, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2019 / By: Dawn | Girl Heart Food 88 Comments

Fluffy and flavourful, these baked blueberry donuts are your coffee’s best friend! Topped with a simple lemon glaze with flecks of fresh lemon zest, these homemade baked donuts make for one delicious treat!

Stack of three baked blueberry donuts with a lemon icing sugar glaze.

Hey everyone! How was your weekend? Did it fly by, as always?

What better way to ease into the week than with these baked blueberry donuts, don’t ya think?

We love homemade donuts in our home.

Probably because they’re so easy to make. Plus, I don’t have to go out to enjoy! I can stay home in my comfy clothes and enjoy plenty of coffee without having to line up somewhere.

With just some simple ingredients, you could be on your way to the best homemade baked donuts you could ever shove in the ol’ piehole!

Besides how tasty these berry donuts are, one of my fave things about them is that you don’t even have to haul out the big mixer. Just use a large bowl and way to go! That still doesn’t stop me from making a mess, but least I try, LOL.

Ingredients for a blueberry donut recipe.

How To Make Them

Full details are in the recipe card below, but here are the basics:

Get your donut pan ready by greasing. Preheat your oven now too.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, whisk together milk, egg, melted butter, vanilla extract and lemon zest.
Mix everything together until there are no visible streaks of flour.
Toss blueberries with a little flour to prevent them from sinking in the donuts.
Very gently stir the blueberries into the donut batter. Try not to break them. Some broken are okay, though!
Spoon or pipe donut batter into the pan and bake. Once done, allow to cool.
Whisk together icing sugar, lemon juice and lemon extract in a bowl until smooth and combined.
Invert donuts into icing sugar glaze and place onto a cooling rack to set.

Tip: Let these delicious blueberry donuts cool completely before glazing (I know, you’ll be tempted to devour right away). Otherwise, the glaze will soak into the donut.

Collage of preparing the batter mixture for blueberry donuts.

Tips for Making This Recipe

I used the remainder of the local wild blueberries that my pop gave me last year that I had stashed in our freezer, but fresh blueberries would work lovely!
You could use regular dairy milk in this baked donut recipe, but the vanilla almond milk gives things a little more vanilla flavour. Use what you like or have on hand!
Toss your blueberries in a little bit of flour before incorporating into the wet batter. These helps to prevent them from sinking into the batter.
Don’t overwork your blueberries. You don’t want to break them out and have them bleed too much into the batter. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, if you ask me.
Let the baked donuts cool completely before icing.
These donuts fluff up when baking so the centre hole may enclose a little; I simply glazed the whole top. It creates a little pocket for more glaze!
When making an icing sugar glaze add a little liquid to the icing sugar at a time because a little goes a long way. If you add too much, your icing sugar will be runny. If it is, no worries, add a little more icing sugar to thicken again.
When zesting lemon, go for the yellow zest part and not the pith (as it can be bitter). Don’t have a lemon zester? Try a box grater on the smallest hole.

Close-up of a stack of three baked blueberry donuts with lemon glaze.

More Baked Donut Recipes

Hope you love these easy baked donuts as much as we do! They’re a favourite around here.

If you make this blueberry donut recipe, be sure to leave a comment below!