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Delicious Lemon Mini Donut Recipe

These mini donuts are perfect for me. I just love lemon everything, and lemon desserts are a definite favorite. These lemon mini donuts are easy to make when you are using your mini donut maker and a crowd-pleaser.

Lemon mini donuts

Lemon Mini Donut Recipe

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These are relatively simple mini donuts to make. Simple is my favorite way to do things, I don’t have a million hours in a day to make fun treats for my kids and myself. With homeschooling, and homesteading, and blogging, my time is filled quite quickly.

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

How to make Lemon Mini Donuts

This here is another easy mini donut recipe perfect for your mini donut maker. I love lemon so it was about time for me to make a lemon donut recipe. Everyone here in our house loves lemon-flavored everything, Lemon Merigane Pie is my most favorite pie, lemon mini donuts are my favorite donuts, sugar-free lemon jello is my favorite… see the pattern?

Start by mixing together your dry ingredients and then add in your wet ingredients one at a time mix in between.

I choose to pour my batter into a bag, like a piping bag to make it easier to fill the mini donut maker molds.

Lemon mini donuts

Using my mini donut maker keeps the heat out of my kitchen, making it perfect for use on warm summer days. Plus we get a fun, easy-to-make snack, and quite quickly as it only takes a few minutes to cook each batch. The speed at which we can have a mini snack is my kids’ favorite part.

The little light will turn green with they are finished, they are light brown and fluffy. Set them aside to cool.

Mini Donut Frosting

This time I used lemon juice and icing sugar for our frosting. Wait until your mini donuts have cooled down and then dip them into the frosting.

And then try to save some to share with others. I won’t hold it against you if you can’t stop yourself from eating all of these delicious lemon mini donuts.

Lemon mini donuts

Lemon Mini Donuts

Yield: 48
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Additional Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Easy, lemony mini donuts ready in no time at all.

Ingredients

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. This is another easy mini donut recipe perfect for your mini donut maker. We love lemon so it was about time for me to make a lemon donut recipe.
  2. Start by mixing together your dry ingredients and then add in your wet ingredients one at a time mix in between. I choose to pour my batter into a bag, like a piping bag to make it easier to fill the mini donut maker molds. Using my mini donut maker keeps the heat out of my kitchen, and we get a fun, easy to make snack, quite quickly as it only take a few minutes to cook each batch.
  3. The little light will turn green with they are finished, they are light brown and fluffy. Set them aside to cool.

How to Use A Mini Donut Maker:

In case you just got your mini donut maker and you are looking to see exactly how to it, this post is for you: How to Use a Mini Donut Maker. I show you how I do it easily with a Ziploc bag.

You can also get a batter dispenser to fill your donut molds for a no waste, easy to use option. It may not work with all recipes as some are thicker than others.

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