If you love donuts as much as I do you’ll want to try these easy bake lemon donuts because they’re amazing and even nicer with the icing on top! I’m a big fan of lemon, so much so that every element of this donut has lemon in it! Cooking with lemon can be amazing and very tasty so I’d recommend it every time.
Baked Lemon Donuts
These donuts are baked in the oven, it means there’s hardly any work done and it’s a really simple donut recipe for everyone to enjoy. I found that with the right donut tray you can make quite a few and have them all coming out looking perfect, I’d smooth the top of the donuts before putting them in the oven so that you don’t get any lumps or bumps.
After 12 minutes in the oven, the donuts are ready to come out, with this easy lemon donut recipe I found that they smelled amazing and it’s something to cook if you want the kitchen to smell like you’ve been cooking!
Iced Lemon Donuts
I loved adding the icing to these donuts, I made a huge mess and it was nice and fun. I added lemon juice and lemon zest into the icing sugar and then topped with lemon fudge and the whole lemon package was amazing. At the end of the day if you don’t make a mess in the kitchen are you even cooking right? I would suggest decorating donuts on a wire rack, that way anything that drips down will fall onto the counter and is easily cleaned away.
If you love donuts as much as I do I’d suggest taking a look at my Baked Chocolate Donut Recipe as they are to die for! These donuts go down a treat in the office as well so if you want people on your side try these.
Baked Lemon Donut Recipe
Ingredients
- 220g Plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 120g Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg
- 60g Melted butter
- 1 and half lemons
- ****
- 200g icing sugar
- half lemon
- Lemon fudge pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Spray a donut pan lightly with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, add together the flour, baking soda, sugar, salt and zest of 1 and a half lemons. In a separate bowl, mix together the egg, butter and lemon juice from 1 and a half lemons until well combined.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Spoon the batter into the donut tray making sure to only fill them about half way as they grow when baking. Flatten the mixture to avoid lumps or bumps.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the donut comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes in the pan. Remove donuts from the pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- FOR THE GLAZE, BELOW.
- Add the lemon zest and lemon juice to the icing sugar and mix, if needed at water until a thick icing sugar is formed.
- Drizzle onto the donuts and add lemon fudge pieces, place in fridge for 10-20 minutes to let icing sugar harden.
