A light, fluffy baked lemon donut drizzled with a tart lemon glaze. Made with whole wheat flour and lemon Greek yogurt makes me feel better about indulging in donuts in the morning.
Kelley turned me on to the Chobani Lemon Greek Yogurt, tart but so creamy, smooth and delicious. With twice the protein of regular yogurt, I decided it would make a great ingredient for a baked lemon donut. I found a Baked Lemon Donut recipe, Chef Meg’s Light Lemon-Blueberry Doughnuts, on Shape.com that I adapted to create these donuts.
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I was really surprised how light and fluffy these donuts baked up, even using whole wheat flour. My husband would have liked the donut to have an even more intense lemon flavor, so next time I’d substitute some of the milk with a bit of lemon juice, or maybe even a little lemon extract would kick it up a notch.
I’ve been seeing lots of baked donut recipes on line lately. I don’t know if there’s been more of them, or if I’m just noticing them more. I hope you’re enjoying them as much as I am because I’m just a little obsessed with them right now. Over the weekend I turned our favorite banana muffins in to fun banana cinnamon chip donuts.
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Baked Lemon Donuts
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup whole-wheat flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 6 oz container Chobani lemon Greek yogurt
- ⅓ cup canola oil
- ⅓ cup milk
- zest of one lemon
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- juice of one lemon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º. Lightly grease two 6 count donut pans with cooking spray or vegetable oil.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together egg, yogurt, oil, milk and lemon zest. Add to dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
- Divide batter evenly into 12 donut cups, filling each about half full. (Use a pastry bag or plastic bag with corner cut out to make filling the cups easier.)
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool for a few minutes in the pans.
- Whisk together powdered sugar and lemon juice to create a thin glaze.
- Remove donuts from pans and drizzle glaze on warm donuts. Cool on a wire rack.
More baked donut recipes:
Baked Orange Hard Wheat & Olive Oil Donuts, Farmgirl Gourmet
Peanut Butter Cake Donuts, Living in the Kitchen with Puppies
Strawberry Banana Doughnuts, Cafe Terra Blog
Pumpkin Spice Glazed Donut Holes, Burnt Apple
Eggnog Cranberry Donuts, Sugar & Spice and All Things Iced
Lynn
Im always looking for whole wheat recipes; these donuts are going on my list for this weekend. Thanks!
gloria
look delicious Barbara!!
Shumaila
Barbara these look outrageously good! What I would give to have one!
Sandy
Now these look yummy! I could have lived happily on my diet for years without knowing that Baked Lemon Donuts exist. Now, I will have to find an excuse to take a “day off.”
PS- I would love to cook for you if you will bake for me :). We should plan on a get together. I vote for Donna’s house… Her kids are fantastic at washing dishes!
Barbara
I vote for Donna’s house too! Thanks!
Becki's Whole Life
There have been a lot of donuts out there lately – but yours are the first lemon ones and I love that you used yogurt in these. I seriously need to buy a donut pan…if they are relatively healthy like these I won’t feel so bad eating a bunch of them. I love that you used the lemon flavored chobani – that is such a good idea.
Kasha
You had me at “baked lemon donuts!” LOL. So yummy and I love the baked part. You’re a genius in the kitchen!
Linda @ Lemon Drop
These look absolutely lovely. I must bake these!
Asmita
Wow, baked lemon doughnuts sound mouthwatering. The photographs look amazing! I love the little milk bottle.
jess white @athriftyfoodie
love this so much! lemon donuts, yum!
Jeffrey
the donuts look so very delicious. thank you for sharing this recipe, I really love donuts. i use to try different varieties of it.
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Your donuts look perfect mum and I always thought you had to deep fry them (which I’m a bit scared of) so I like the idea of baked donuts! 😀 xxx
Peggy Clyde
I haven’t made baked donuts before, but I’m going to try these. Thanks.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
Delicious! I love baked donuts. Lemon sounds perfect.
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc
oh my I’m in love with these! Hope to see you this week in Salt Lake!
Stephanie
These lemon donuts look really good and I am going to try to make them this weekend. Last weekend I made another batch of your blueberry muffins. As always they were great.
Tracey
Ooooh yay, I love lemon treats and I’ve been trying to find more recipes to use my doughnut pan. Can’t wait to try these 🙂
Shelby
Chobani is my very favorite yogurt. They have a blood orange flavor now too and I love it! Your donuts look yummy. I will have to bake some donuts again. I haven’t made them in so long!
Lauren
Keep the lemon treats coming! Who doesn’t love a doughnut?
Paula
Greek yogurt and whole wheat! You have just raised the bar for healthy and delicious donuts! Thank you.
Margot
Oh, I must try this! I made baked donuts once, but this lemon glaze sounds very tempting 🙂