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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Baked Blueberry Donuts
Ingredients
Baked Blueberry Donuts
- Cooking spray , to grease donut pan
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus 1 tablespoon to toss blueberries in
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- â…“ cup vanilla almond milk
- 1 large egg
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- â…” cup frozen blueberries, or fresh blueberries
Lemon Glaze
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
Instructions
Baked Blueberry Donuts
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Generously spray a 6-count donut pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the almond milk, egg, melted butter, vanilla extract and lemon zest. Add to dry ingredients (flour mixture). Whisk to combine.Â
- In another small bowl, toss blueberries with 1 tablespoon of flour. Gently fold berries into wet batter. Mixture will be thick.
- Distribute batter into prepared donut pan. You can pipe the mixture in or spoon it in.
- Bake for 12 to 13 minutes or until a wooden toothpick or cake tester inserted in the donuts comes out clean.
- Let donuts cool in the pan for about 10 minutes. Then gently remove the donuts from the pan and allow to cool completely on a cooling rack before glazing.
Lemon Glaze
- Combine icing sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest in a bowl and whisk until smooth. Note: I like to add 1.5 tablespoons of lemon juice first and see how I like the consistency. The more liquid you add, the thinner your glaze will be and vice versa. If you've made your glaze too thin, you can always add a little more icing sugar to thicken.
Glaze the Donuts
- Dip cooled donuts into the lemon glaze and place onto a cooling rack to set for a few minutes or enjoy right away. Best enjoyed freshly made.
Notes
- 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!
- Best enjoyed the day of making.
A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
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Tried this recipe?
If you do make this recipe, thank you!! It would mean so much if you could leave a comment below. Love to know how you enjoyed it, and it helps other readers too!
Marissa
You make the most drool worthy baked donuts, Dawn! These look heavenly!! I’m already thinking about spoiling my family with these for breakfast during the holidays!
Girl Heart Food
Thanks Marissa! You’re too kind!! I’m sure you and your family will love ’em 😉
Marie Roffey
Oh wow! Blueberry doughnuts and THAT icing. Amazing treat
Girl Heart Food
Thank you Marie! They really are 😉
Miriam
Your baked blueberry donuts would go perfectly with my cup of tea right now! Great tip to toss the blueberries in a little bit of flour before – enjoying them on the day of making shouldn’t be an issue in my house either 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend ahead, Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
It sure would 😉 Thanks Miriam! You too 🙂
karrie @ Tasty Ever After
Girl, you know I love me some blueberries and you also know that blueberries are dang good up here right now! I already packed away my muffin pan and will get that baby out this weekend to make these donuts for Sunday brunch! Extra lemon glaze for me please!
Girl Heart Food
Yay! Hope you love them! XOXO
Katherine | Love In My Oven
That glaze looks amazing – I just want to sink my teeth into one of those! I am loving all of the blueberries right now. It’s so nice when you can buy a giant carton of them for $4!!! So much better than the winter price of $7/pint haha. I will use my abundance of bluebs to make a batch of these soon! XO
Girl Heart Food
Thanks Katherine!! I hear ya about the berries! Hope you love these 🙂 XO
Kevin
Homemade donuts are the best! Love the blueberry flavors!
Girl Heart Food
Thanks Kevin 🙂
Tamara of thentherestwo.com
These look divine! Do you know if I can substitute the flower for a gluten-free flour?
Girl Heart Food
Thank you Tamara! I’ve never tried that with these, but I can’t see it being a problem 🙂
Leanne | Crumb Top Baking
What a perfect way to use up the last of your wild blueberries! That lemon glaze is the perfect topping and I like that you slathered it on! You can never have too much glaze with your donuts! I love rainy weekends too! They feel so cozy and I always get so much done in the kitchen! Hope you’re having a great week Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
Definitely! Thank you so much, Leanne! Can’t wait until the blueberries come around again for the season 🙂 Hope you’re having a great week too.
Kathy @ Beyond the Chicken Coop
I love that these are baked – so I can eat more! 🙂 The blueberries look like a little burst of flavor and paired with that lemon glaze – double yum! I think these are just what I need for breakfast right now!!!
Girl Heart Food
Totally 😉 I like the way you think, Kathy! Thanks so much, my friend!
Mary Ann | The Beach House Kitchen
I love baked donuts and add blueberries and I’m all in Dawn! Love the lemony glaze too! Pinning and trying soon!
Girl Heart Food
Thank you Mary Ann! Hope you love ’em 🙂
Milena
So perfect – the glaze is absolutely decadent. I like the fact that you can just whip up the batter in a mixing bowl without too much fuss. Definitely something to appreciate if baking donuts early in the morning, right?
Pinned!
Girl Heart Food
So true! Thanks Milena 🙂 Have a wonderful week!
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
These aren’t just my coffee’s BFF. They’re probably mine too :). I looooove lemon and blueberry together! And of course I love donuts. Plus, since they’re baked I can eat extra right? Have a great week, Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
Hahaha…true, true 🙂 Thanks Kelsie! Have a great week too!
Jennifer @ Seasons and Suppers
These look so luscious! Love blueberry anything and it’s wild blueberry season in Ontario, so I’m all set 🙂
Girl Heart Food
Yay! Me too, Jennifer! They haven’t popped up around here yet, but soon 🙂
David @ Spiced
We still have an entire container of blueberries left in the fridge after our blueberry picking adventure a week or two ago. They last so long when you pick ’em fresh! But I’m thinking some of those berries might be destined for these donuts…they look so tasty, Dawn! And that glaze? Oh yeah!!
We had a good weekend here, but it went by way too fast (as always). We spent a bunch of time reseeding part of the backyard…I’m thinking we bit off more than we could chew on that project. Oops! Hope you had a good weekend, my friend!
Girl Heart Food
I agree! Thanks David! I hope you get a chance to try these out 🙂 Have a great week!
annie@ciaochowbambina
Mmmmm – love the idea of that ‘lil’ pocket’ for catching more glaze! That’s the best bite, right there! This is everything i want on a Monday morning! And because they’re baked – no guilt!! Wishing you a great week, my friend! XOXO
Shashi at SavorySpin
Oh wow! Mondays are guaranteed to be marvelous with a batch of these to start them off with! And I can just use my spoon to whip these up! Gosh, I feel I’d have a hard time not using that same spoon to eat spoonfuls of THAT lemon glaze! What a fantastic combo of that luscious lemon glaze paired with those thick baked blueberry donuts! I love the rise on those donuts, Dawn! I’m partial to baked donuts and I think I could eat a 3 of these with my morning coffee! Hoping your week is off to a wonderful start! xoxo