These lemon donuts are soft and fluffy yeasted donuts, baked not fried, filled with a sweet and tangy lemon curd and coated in lemon sugar. These are a lemon lovers dream.
Ingredients you’ll need
The ingredients list for these lemon filled donuts is relatively short. It starts with a very simple and basic enriched dough – enriched meaning it has butter and egg yolks added, the fat adding richness. The filling, if you choose to make it from scratch, has just a handful of simple ingredients.
- Milk: Start with full fat milk / whole milk. You could replace this with a lighter milk but you will lose some of the richness, or a plant-based milk.
- Yeast: Instant yeast or instant dried yeast is your best bet here. That’s what I use. You can also use active-dry yeast which needs to be activated but I’ve written the recipe in such a way that you will be activating the yeast first up anyway.
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