Gluten-free AND dairy-free lemon donuts are just the snack my kids will love when they get home from school. Drizzle icing on top, or eat these little gluten-free donuts plain.
Drizzle icing on top, or eat these little gluten-free donuts plain. You can even create a delicious glaze by mixing 2 cups of powdered sugar with 1/4 cup almond milk.
Take a look at this little lemondonut and you can see how moist and delicious it is!
Lemon Desserts
As promised, here is another recipe that will use up some of those lemons. Our tree is still overflowing with lemons and I am working on finding a lot of ways to use them up. My gluten free lemon tart recipe and my gluten-free lemon bundt cake recipes are other great ways to use up those lemons :-).
These moist and delicious gluten-free donuts are so quick and easy to make with my Babycakes Mini Donut Maker. From start to finish we had little lemon donuts in under 20 minutes.
Easy Substitutions
- You can also bake these donuts in a donut pan if you don’t have a donut maker. There are a lot of gluten-free baking recipes on my blog. (I have a link below that shows you what my donut pan looks like.)
- I do suggest spraying the donut pan with coconut oil so the outside of the donut gets a little crispy.
- The beauty of this recipe is that you can easily customize the flavor. Omit the lemon and you have a delicious vanilla donut.
- Add white chocolate chips.
- Add blueberries or raspberries, which would taste delicious with this lemon donut.
I love to make gluten-free recipes for kids. This gluten-free donut recipe is a lot less guilt because I used applesauce to keep these gluten-free doughnuts super moist and to reduce the amount of sugar in this recipe.
Almond meal helps add some protein so there isn’t a big sugar crash after eating one or two of these….(okay, maybe more like four or five. These are hard to resist!)
Click here to see all of the donut recipes on this blog.
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Tools You Need To Make This Recipe:
- Babycakes donut maker. This is my favorite and most used kitchen toy 🙂
- Gluten-free flour blend. My favorite blend because it works so well.
- A donut pan, just in case you don’t have a donut maker.
How to make gluten-free lemon donuts:
Quick and easy gluten free lemon donuts.
- 1 1/4 cup gluten free flour blend (*Note, my flour blend has xanthan gum included. If yours doesn't, add 1 teaspoon.)
- 3/4 cup almond meal
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2/3 cup coconut oil melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 2 large eggs
- In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients and whisk together to blend.
- In a medium bowl, add all wet ingredients and whisk.
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Preheat the Babycakes Mini Donut Maker.
- Put a little dough into each section of the donut maker.
- Cook for 5 minutes until done.
- Remove and put onto cooling rack.
- Ice, frost, or eat plain.
What are your favorite donuts?
Here are 8 More Yummy Donuts to Try!
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- Chocolate Donut with Cookie Dough Frosting
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- Vanilla Pudding Donuts
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- Chocolate Orange Donuts
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- Healthy Breakfast Donuts
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- Grain Free Blueberry Donuts with Coconut Glaze
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- Maple Bacon Donuts
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- Gingerbread Donuts
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- Pumpkin Donuts with a Honey Glaze
More lemon/lime goodness:
Gluten-Free Lemon Curd Coconut Cupcakes – these are stuffed full of delicious lemon curd.
Any suggested replacement s for almond meal as my LO has but allergy as well.
Hi Megan, to maintain the moistness of these…I suggest substituting the 3/4 c almond flour with 2/3 cup additional gluten free flour blend and then increase the applesauce by another 1/4 cup. Please let me know how they turn out 🙂
I love all the recipes you are making with lemon! I’m obsessed with them this week. This looks like another great one!
Thank you Elle 🙂
First the banana bread and now this…Sandi, you’re killing me.
(I don’t mind because they are both delicious!)
Thank you Arman 🙂
I’ve always wanted a donut maker. My kids would be in complete donut heaven. I’ve been GF for awhile so these are a great recipe to start with.
If you give it a light spray of coconut oil before putting in the dough, it gives the outsides a crispiness like real donuts.
YUM! The texture looks absolutely perfect! Can’t wait to try these. You’re tempting me to plant a lemon tree with all of these delicious recipes 🙂
I highly recommend lemon treas 🙂 We get lemons almost year round, though spring/summer we get a lot more than winter.
That looks so delish and love that it’s gluten-free!
Your donuts looks incredible…I cannot believe they are gluten-free!
Thank you so much Linda, definitely gluten free 🙂
These Donuts look absolutely divine. I am going to have to purchase a mini donut maker now.
LOL the mini donut makers just mean you make a lot of donuts 🙂
These look delicious! looking forward to making these for my Gluten-Free daughter.
I hope she likes them Mary 🙂
I can’t keep my husband away from doughnuts! If he hears there’s a mini doughnut maker out there he will have to get one! These look great! These ones I might make for him!
LOL, men are too funny!
Wow! These are absolutely gorgeous! They sound delightful with the yummy lemon (I’m so sad my lemons from my tree are gone)!
Thank you Patricia 🙂
I’ve got a new donut pan and haven’t yet used it. This might be the one to break it in. A really lovely sounding (and looking!) recipe. Shared widely!
Awesome. Let me know how the donut pan works 🙂
These look so good Sandi! We can’t use almond flour either but will sub as you suggested. Will let you know how they turn out.
I hope the boys enjoy it Cindy 🙂 I should just start mailing you care packages!
Dear Sandi, these are an absolute must-try! Your donuts look perfect and tasty. I am assuming that since I don’t have a donut maker, the oven will do! Have a wonderful weekend dear. xo, Catherine
I have never made homemade donuts. These look so good I just want to lick off the icing and chow down on those lemony bites!
Thank you Diane 🙂
I need one of those little donut pans now!
I love anything lemon and these cute little donuts look so good!
Hi. Thank you so much for the post. my daugther has egg white allergy. Can I omit the egg igredient completely?
I would think an egg replacer would work fine in this recipe.
I shared your amazing recipe in my National Donut Day Roundup! Thank you so much!!
Thank you, I hope the post was really successful 🙂
Any suggestions how to cook them without a donut maker please? Thanks
Hi Rosemary,
You could use a donut pan and bake them in the oven. Just spray coconut oil on the pan so the edges get a little crisp. Thank you so much for stopping by 🙂
What temperature and for how long please?
Hi Suhail. I don’t bake the donuts so I can only suggest you bake at 350 degrees and watch to see when they are done. The donut maker cooks them in 4 minutes, but that is very different from the baking you want to try.
Is it 1/4 of a tablespoon plus 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice? I just wanted to clarify it wasn’t 1/4 or something else plus 1 tablespoon before I made them. Thanks!
Hi Bonnie, it is 1 tablespoon plus 1/4. I wanted a little more lemon flavor in these donuts. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoy these donuts!!
I have a donut pan and have yet to christen it, but your attractively presented donuts and easy recipe will have me in the kitchen making these very soon. Gorgeous!
Wish I could send you some lemons to make yours with too 🙂
Lovely recipe. I used coconut flour instead of almond flour and they came out great.
I am so glad you liked these Jo. Thank you so much for your kind note. Great that the coconut flour worked well :-).