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Please give a warm welcome to my friend Jen from Juanita’s Cocina. She was kind enough to fill in for me while I’m on vacation. This girl knows my heart, and my tummy. She made donuts! I could live on donuts, especially these donuts.
Hi! I’m Jen from Juanita’s Cocina! I was thrilled when Jennie asked me to guest post for her while she takes a little break from blogging to go on vacation! (She didn’t offer to take me with her…so this was the next best thing!)
Jennie and I have bonded over the last few months as new bloggers. We share a love for family dinners, anything sweet, delicious food photos, and looooong vacations…(*hint* Jennie!).
So, when I ran a few ideas by her for this guest post, I was beyond excited when she chose the ONE thing I was really wanting to make…Lemon Donuts!
I originally found these lemon donuts on Sweet Mornings. What intrigued me about about these donuts was the use of yogurt in the batter. The yogurt takes the place of much of the fat that you’ll usually see in cakes, muffins, or donuts. And what emerges on the other side of baking is a lightly sweet and tart, but dense and cakey donut. Plus you don’t have to feel horrible about eating these. So, feel free to eat the whole batch!
We tried these donuts rolled in powdered sugar as well as glazed with a light lemony glaze. We divided equally in this household, 50% for the powdered donuts and 50% for the glazed. I encourage you to try both ways just to change it up!
Baked Lemon Yogurt Donuts
Ingredients
For the Donuts
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 Tbs. unsalted butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup low-fat plain or vanilla yogurt (I used vanilla)
- 6 Tbs. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. vanilla
For the Lemon Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- Lemon juice (as much as needed to form a glaze)
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Grease a donut pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar.
In another bowl, combine the butter, eggs, yogurt, lemon juice, and vanilla until well-mixed.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Spoon the batter into the donut pan, filling each donut opening to approximately 2/3 full.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until donuts are cooked all of the way through.
Remove the donuts from the pan and allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Toss the donuts in powdered sugar before serving.
For the Glaze
Mix the powdered sugar with enough lemon juice to make a thin glaze.
Dip cooled donuts into the glaze and allow the glaze to set up entirely before service.
These donuts were absolutely amazing! And practically guilt-free. I don’t even think they need all of that sugar!
Thank you to Jennie for allowing me to share this yummy recipe!
I wonder if she’s bringing me back a souvenier!
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Hi and welcome to my flour-dusted kitchen! The name's Jennie. I'm a lover of cupcakes, an avid spatula licker, and a huge fan of sprinkles. Baking is my passion, but you'll find some savory dishes scattered amongst copious amounts of frosting and chocolate. I love hearing from ya, so feel free to leave me some love. Thanks for stopping by my little piece of the interweb.
Oh my! I MUST get one of those donut pans. These look so good and baked instead of fried. Perfection!
Love baked doughnuts!!!! These are goregous. Great guest post jen
Two great Jen/Jennies in one post! I love it! And HELLO I love these doughnuts! I will take my dozen glazed, please. You do ship to Boston, right?
ps: LOVE the site redesign. The blog looks awesome!
Thanks, Jess! I don’t see shipping them being a problem
What great looking donuts. Now all I need is a donut pan. I haven’t seen any in Australia but then maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough.
Thanks! I would try Amazon; they seem to have everything.
Did I hear healthy donuts? Yum! These look divine!
You sure did! Thanks.
I need to get a donut pan!
I had to order one as soon as I saw this recipe.
Mmmm … This looks totally lower-carbable … Must get a donut pan
Your blog looks fantastic! As do Jen’s donuts
YUM.
Thanks, Liz!
Definitely added these to my ‘must bake’ list!
Thanks! I will be baking them soon, too.
Yum! I’m totally going to do this.
Could you make these in muffin pans?
I don’t see why not, but I have never tried to make them in a muffin tin. They should rise just the same. Good luck.
These would make great muffins! The batter is thick enough. I say go for it!
these look delicious! hope you have a great vacation Jennie!
Thanks, Jenn. They sure do. Jen did an amazing job coming up with a yummy guest post.
Hello, beautiful lemon doughnut! Gorgeous and tasty recipe.
I love baked donuts! The light lemon flavor is perfect for summer!
Ooh ladies, what a collaboration! Lemon donuts – divine.
Donut collaborations are the best. Thanks, Kale!
I am not even a donut fan, and these make my mouth water
What glorious looking donuts! Love the layout, too!
(And sorry for the long absence, I was traveling/graduating)
Thanks, Kiri. I’ve been absent also so don’t worry about it. Have fun on your travels and Congrats!
AWE!! i love the little little doughnuts!! These sounds so refreshing!
They’re adorable, right! Thanks.
I love baked donuts, but have never made them with yogurt before…these look so good!
These look so delicious! I need to get a donut pan immediately!
Hi Jenny and Jen! What a great guest post! So glad you chose these lemon donuts and love that they are made with yogurt! I can see how your house would have been divided on them….but for me….I’ll go with that luscious lemon glaze! Wonderful post ladies! : )
I love Jenn’s blog!
I have yet to try baked doughnuts, but it’s on my list for after I get back. They look so delicious, and I love the lemon in these.
What a great guest post! I vote for powdered sugar and definitely need to buy a donut pan fast!
Great to see Jen over here guest posting! I have made baked donuts once, but I cannot even begin to count how many recipes I have saved. I guess I have a donut addiction. The recipe here really does make me swoon. The yogurt lemon combination I fell in love with a long time ago, so these do seems perfect for my tastes. The picture is so stunning-now I really do have a craving. Have a great afternoon!
So fun to see Jen here! Obsessed with those donuts! That glaze looks awesome.
haha ok and Jennie – LOVE the blog redesign! I didn’t even notice the first time that we both have the same color scheme, we’re both just so stylish…. little blogging twins
Andddd I already commented back to you on my blog but thank you so much for adding me to your fav foodies!! You are too sweet 
You’d be on my list too if I had one up on my site…I really need to figure out how to put one up! Baby steps.. this whole redesign thing is a lot of work…!
Jennie- Enjoy your down time.
Jen- Okay these are wicked good, but then I see they’re not cuz they’re baked. Great job on these, not only delish but not bad for me. I’m totally in.
These sound delicious! Love anything lemon and doughnuts would be wonderful!
Fantastic! These look so fresh and authentic (they must have tasted that way too)! What a treat for a special morning.
i am so entirely LAME for just now getting over here to check out your spifftastic new website! i love it! there has always been something about light blue and red/dark pink which makes me super happy.
also, these donuts are a fabulous way to break them in. this may finally be my last straw in terms of getting the donut pan. i’ve held out until now…but. i sort of have to make these.
Thanks, Shannon! Yes, buy the donut pan, make them, then eat three.
I have a donut pan, and I’ve only made donuts with it once, mainly because having donuts around is suuuuper dangerous since I will likely eat them all. BUT these look fabulous!