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Gluten Free Lemon Glazed Baked Blueberry Donuts

April 1, 2020 by Cassie 12 Comments

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Gluten Free Lemon Glazed Baked Blueberry Donuts

Raise your hand if you’ve been stress baking and eating!  Both of my hands are WAY up. The struggle has been real over here.  The first week we were home, I made chocolate chip cookies, muffins, and more…  the good old fashioned full sugar and fat way.  Now that I know I am going to be in my home for a long time to come, I’m trying to take a little control back and baking healthier recipes using cleaner ingredients.  This past weekend, I made lemon-glazed blueberry donuts, and I am so excited to share the recipe with you today.  If we’re gonna be at home baking and eating, we may as well try to make it a little bit better for us, right?  Today I am joining several other bloggers who are also sharing their spring recipes.  You can find all of their links at the bottom of this post, and special thanks to Krista at The Happy Housie for organizing all of us.

Gluten Free Lemon Glazed Blueberry Donuts

Last week I told Chris I had a spring recipe to create and asked for his ideas because I wanted to make something he’d eat, too.  Our older kids are such picky eaters that I knew I couldn’t count on them to eat whatever I concocted unless it was some version of carbs with cheese.  Chris suggested spring rolls, or seared tuna, or seaweed salad, all of which are delicious (I especially love making spring rolls since a neighbor taught me years ago!) but with the current state of affairs, I wanted to come up with something you could make with easier to find items, or things you already had. My own pantry is always full of baking supplies, both gluten free versions and not, my freezer always has blueberries, and lemons are generally an easy commodity.  I asked what he thought about lemon glazed blueberry donuts instead, and he said that sounded good to him!  Normally he would have said, “Why did you even bother asking me?” I am not sure what overcame him. 😉  I am famous for asking him questions as if they are open ended and then saying, “No, how about this?”

Fruit, especially berries and lemons, are quintessential spring flavors, and I love the combination of lemon with almost any berry.  Lemon raspberry, lemon blackberry, lemon strawberry…. Yes, please!  I am so missing my local farmer’s market right now, but happy that I was able to come up with a recipe featuring some of my favorite farmer’s market flavors.

Gluten Free Baked Donuts

You can find the easy to follow recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are the basics you will needed as well as a little more detail to the steps I took and mistakes I learned from.

Materials Needed

  • donut baking pan
  • cooling rack
  • cooking spray
  • medium mixing bowl
  • small bowl
  • measuring spoons and cups
  • whisk
  • spoon for glaze

Gluten Free Donut baking supplies

Ingredients

  • oat milk
  • cider vinegar
  • lemon juice
  • vanilla extract
  • coconut oil
  • honey
  • oat flour
  • sea salt
  • baking powder
  • blueberries
  • turbinado sugar
  • lemons for juice and zest
  • corn starch or arrowroot powder

Instructions

First things first, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  These donuts don’t take much time to make at all, so you’ll be ready to stick them in by the time it’s ready. Also prepare your donut pan by spraying with cooking spray, and then lightly flouring. Note, I did not flour mine, and I had a couple stick (which is why my photos have 4 donuts. 😉 ).  Learn from my mistake and go ahead and lightly flour yours with some oat flour to keep them gluten free.

Whisk together your first 6 wet ingredients, and set aside.  Then in a separate small bowl mix together your dry ingredients (everything up until blueberries- under blueberries is all for the glaze). Add your dry ingredients to your prepared wet and gently stir together until combined.  Fold in your blueberries.  If using frozen like I was, make sure you’ve thawed the berries first! Do not overmix or your batter will turn blue.  Here is what mine looked like when I was done mixing in the berries. You can see that the color started to bleed a little so I simply stopped stirring.

 

Pour batter into the 6 spaces of your prepared pan.  You can pour, spoon, whatever works for you!  I spooned mine in, and it was slightly messy but really not too bad. I once tried using a cake decorating kit to fill a  donut pan and I don’t recommend that method… FYI. It seemed like a good idea, but it just oozed out and made a huge mess.

Bake for 15 minutes, until golden brown and bounces back to finger touch. They will look like this coming out of the oven.

Let cool for about 5-10 minutes in the pan, then gently remove and place on cooling rack.  I used a small rubber spatula to loosen all of the edges before flipping the pan over to let them fall out.

While they are in the oven, prepare your glaze.  You’re going to combine turbinado sugar (I use this because it is unrefined and a little cleaner), lemon juice, and oat milk and whisk or stir with fork until as much of the sugar as possible dissolves, about 2 minutes.  Next run the mixture through a sieve, collecting the liquid in a bowl below.  This method helps get all of the remaining sugar granules out so your glaze is smooth. Next, add in the corn starch to thicken it a bit. The glaze will be a light brown in color, but it seeps into the donuts and really doesn’t matter that it isn’t white.  It tastes amazing!

Glazing gluten free donuts with lemon glaze

Using a small spoon, drizzle the glaze onto your donuts.

Drizzling glaze onto donuts

While the glaze is still wet, zest lemon peel right onto the donuts to garnish.  This step is totally optional, but definitely makes them look a little prettier in my opinion, and lets people know to expect lemon flavor.

zesting lemon on glazed donuts

After that, they’re ready to eat and enjoy! I used my grandmother’s old green glass cake plate that I love to use for special events, and as you can see I glazed and garnished my donuts right on that place.  To make them a little fancier, I added some spring blooms from our yard.

Gluten Freen Lemon Blueberry Donuts

I took some photos of them looking lovely, and then… Baked GF lemon blueberry donuts

… I ate two.  I have big feelings right now, and my eating reflects that.  At least on the sunny side, these are a little less guilt-inducing than regular donuts.  It’s basically like I just had a green smoothie, but without the green, protein powder, and with sugar instead…  thank goodness, it’s unrefined sugar. 😉

Here are the easy to follow recipes for you, and find the links to all the others below these.

Gluten Free Baked Donuts

Gluten Free Lemon Glazed Baked Blueberry Donuts

These sweet treats are gluten free and cleaner than regular donuts, but packed with lemon blueberry flavor!
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Course Breakfast
Servings 6

Equipment

  • donut pan

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup oat milk
  • 1 tsp cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 tbsp melted coconut oil cooled to room temp
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1 cup oat flour
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup blueberries if frozen, thaw to room temp
  • lemon glaze see below
  • lemon zest optional

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 and spray and flour donut baking pan.
  • Whisk together all wet ingredients.
  • Mix together all dry ingredients, except for blueberries.
  • Whisk dry ingredients into wet gently and do not over-mix.
  • Gently fold in blueberries.
  • Spoon into prepared donut pan. You will have enough for 6 donuts exactly.
  • Bake for approximately 15 minutes until golden brown.
  • Remove from oven and let cool in pan for 5 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
  • Once cooled, drizzle with lemon glaze (recipe below) and sprinkle with lemon zest if desired.
Keyword blueberry, donut, doughnut, gluten free, lemon
Drizzling glaze onto donuts

Cleaner Lemon Glaze

This lemon glaze is a little cleaner and healthier than your regular glaze.
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 5 mins
Course Dessert
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup turbinado sugar
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 Tbsp oat milk
  • 1 Tbsp corn starch or arrowroot powder

Instructions
 

  • Whisk together first three ingredients for 2 minutes until much of the sugar is dissolved.
  • Pour through sieve, catching the liquid in a small bowl. This step gets rid of any granular sugar left.
  • Whisk in the corn starch or arrowroot powder. Liquid will be a light milky brown.

This week I’m joined by some of my talented blogging friends who are also sharing their spring recipes with you. Be sure to see what they are sharing by clinking the links below the images.

Keto Raspberry Lemon Bars at The Happy Housie
Gorgeous Springtime Desserts at Craftberry Bush
Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake at Two Twenty One
Lightened Up Lemon Poundcake at My Sweet Savannah

Gluten Free Lemon Glazed Blueberry Donuts at Cassie Bustamante
Easy Food Processor Scones at Life is a Party
Lemoniest Lemon Pound Cake at Maison de Cinq
Easy Fruit Salad with Fruit Dip at She Gave it a Go

Mom’s Classic Green Chili Egg Casserole at Tatertots and Jello
Spring Chicken Pesto Pasta at Inspiration for Moms
Devilled Eggs Three Ways at Finding Silver Pennies
Easy Egg Salad Recipe at This is Our Bliss

Classic Belgian Waffles at Nick & Alicia
How to Make Homemade Lemon Curd at Jenna Kate at Home
Raspberry Coconut Chia Breakfast Pudding at Satori Design for Living
Super Moist Gluten Free Banana Bread at Willow Street Interiors
Classic Tea Scones at Life is Better at Home

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Comments

  1. Erika says

    April 1, 2020 at 6:43 am

    We will be baking today. I think we just might make these! They look so good!

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 1, 2020 at 7:00 am

      They are definitely a little softer of a texture than regular donuts because of being GF, but they are tasty! I have been eating them all week. 😉

      Reply
  2. Sheila says

    April 1, 2020 at 10:56 am

    These look so good Cassie! And yes, I’m going to need to clean up my own recipes too or we’ll be in big trouble by the time this is all over, haha!

    Glad you’re hanging in there my freind!

    Sheila
    xo

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 9, 2020 at 1:30 pm

      haha! i have been exercising a lot to try to balance it all out. 😉

      Reply
  3. Jennifer Hadfield says

    April 1, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    Cassie! These donuts look so good and I love that they are gluten free! I pinned them to my brunch board so I can make them soon!

    xoxo

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 9, 2020 at 1:30 pm

      YAY! Thank you!

      Reply
  4. Krista says

    April 1, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    I love lemon anything and am adding this to my dessert recipes. Thanks for sharing Cassie!

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 9, 2020 at 1:31 pm

      thank you- can’t wait to try yours! i am a sucker for raspberries!

      Reply
  5. Danielle says

    April 1, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    Yum. Yum. Yum. I’ve never made donuts before but these look so good! Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 9, 2020 at 1:32 pm

      i love donuts that can be baked! 🙂 so easy!

      Reply
  6. Shelley Westerman says

    April 3, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Mmmmmm… those look and sound delicious!

    Reply
    • Cassie says

      April 9, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      i am a sucker for lemon berry anything

      Reply

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