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Baked Blueberry Donuts

By Jen Lunsford

on May 11, 2021, Updated Jan 03, 2024

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Baked Blueberry Donuts taste great with a sweet lemon glaze! This recipe is perfect for breakfast, dessert, or just for snacking on.

Baked donuts are already so easy to make- toss in a few blueberries for even more delicious juicy fruit flavors! For more delicious baked donuts, try our Caramel Apple Donuts and our Powdered Donuts.

Baked Blueberry Donuts

Donuts might be one of the simplest but tastiest baked goods you can enjoy. We’ve got our fair share of donut places around us- we can take a short drive over to Dunkin Donuts or go a little further out to an actual Krispy Kreme location! These places serve up great, classic donuts… but not everyone has a good donut shop near them. That’s where delicious, homemade donuts come in!

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You could deep fry donuts at home, but it’s much easier to make baked donuts instead. They’re much simpler- and safer- to make, healthier than deep-fried, and you can load them with all sorts of delicious goodies! This recipe for Baked Blueberry Donuts, for example, is loaded up with plump blueberries. These provide a nice burst of fruity flavor into the classic baked donut. If you’ve got the time, you can even top these with an amazing lemon glaze! The perfect topping to an easy, tasty, homemade treat.

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• Add a sweet blueberry topping to all your favorite desserts with our Easy Blueberry Sauce. This stuff is perfect for cheesecake, ice cream, pancakes or waffles, and more! What’s better is that it’s so easy to make- with a short list of ingredients and cooking takes around just 10 minutes.
• Creamy Blueberry Pie is definitely one of our favorite recipes this summer! This delicious recipes combines all that’s great about regular blueberry pie and adds in a rich, creamy custard filling. Topped with a bit of streusel topping, this pie is perfect enjoyed hot or cold!
• Of course, sometimes you just want to keep things simple- and that’s where the Best Blueberry Bread comes in. This is an incredibly easy homemade bread recipe that yields a loaf that tastes just like a blueberry muffin. An extra tip: hit this stuff with a regular or lemon glaze- delish!

Ingredients for Blueberry Baked Donuts

• Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Milk
• Sugar
• Egg
• Melted Butter
• Vanilla Extract
• Blueberries – You can use fresh or frozen blueberries for this recipe. If using frozen, remember to defrost them before adding them!
• Powdered Sugar – We’re going to make a glaze by mixing this with…
• Lemon Juice

How to make Blueberry Donuts

1. Combine dry and wet ingredients separately before mixing them into a donut batter.
2. Pour batter into prepared donut pan until molds are half-full. Add blueberries to each donut and bake at 350 for about 10 minutes.
3. Mix up a quick lemon glaze and then dip cooled donuts into the glaze to coat.

Like many baked recipes, our donuts start with prepping our wet and dry ingredients separately. In one mixing bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt. In another, mix the wet ingredients- the milk, sugar, egg, butter, and vanilla.

To make sure all our dry ingredients mix in with the wet, add the dry stuff in gradually- a heavy dash at a time. Keep adding and mixing until the wet and dry ingredients have just combined- don’t over mix or you’ll get some tough donuts!

Once that batter comes together, we can add it to our donut pan. Spray your pan down with some cooking spray first then pour your batter until each donut mold is about half-way full. We want to leave some room so we can drop in about 4-5 blueberries into each mold.

Transfer your filled donut pan to an awaiting 350 degree oven. They’ll need around 9-10 minutes to bake fully. To check for doneness, poke with a toothpick: if it pulls clean, your donuts are baked! Let cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.

How to make lemon glaze

Your Blueberry Donuts are ready to eat once they’ve cooled but they’ll taste amazing if you hit them with a lemon glaze. To make a lemon glaze, all you need is that powdered sugar, and some lemon juice- freshly squeezed or bottled is fine. Start off by just adding 2 tbsp of the juice to the sugar- this will give you a thick glaze. If it’s too thick for you, just add more lemon juice- little by little- until you reach your desired consistency. Once you’ve got a glaze that you like, dip one side of the donuts into it then transfer them to a wire rack over some paper towels. After the glaze sets, enjoy your donuts!

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Baked Blueberry Donuts

By: Jen Lunsford

Baked Blueberry Donuts taste great with a sweet lemon glaze! This recipe is perfect for breakfast, dessert, or just for snacking on.

Prep: 21 minutes mins

Cook: 10 minutes mins

Servings: 8

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Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1 cup Flour
• ▢ 1 tsp Baking Powder
• ▢ 1/4 tsp Salt
• ▢ 1/3 cup Milk
• ▢ 1/3 cup Sugar
• ▢ 1 Egg
• ▢ 2 tbsp Butter, melted
• ▢ 1 tsp Vanilla
• ▢ 1/2 cup Blueberries
• ▢ 1 cup Powdered Sugar
• ▢ 2-3 tbsp Lemon Juice

Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Spray the donut pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• In another bowl, whisk together milk, sugar, egg, melted butter, and vanilla until blended.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until just combined.
• Fill donut pan holes about half full.
• Place about 4-5 blueberries into the batter in each hole
• Bake for 9-10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the donut, comes out clean.
• Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice until blended.
• If the glaze is too thick, gradually add a little more lemon juice.
• Dip donuts, one at a time, into the glaze and place on the wire rack.

Notes

If you are not a fan of lemon in the glaze, replace lemon juice with milk.

Nutrition

Calories: 194kcal, Carbohydrates: 38g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 29mg, Sodium: 164mg, Potassium: 51mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 25g, Vitamin A: 139IU, Vitamin C: 2mg, Calcium: 48mg, Iron: 1mg

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