Easy Lemon Gluten Free Donuts Recipe {Dairy Free} | Fearless Dining (2024)

FAQs

What is lemon donut filling made of? ›

Make the filling by mixing the egg yolk, vanilla paste, sugar, and cornflour in a bowl until smooth. Boil the milk and cream in a pot, turn down the heat and slowly pour in the egg yolk mix whilst whisking vigorously. Keep cooking for around 2 minutes on low heat. Take off the heat and whisk in the lemon zest.

Milk adds a certain moooood to the doughnut dough, making it softer and udderly delicious. The lactose in the milk adds a subtle sweetness.

To create your makeshift donut pan, start by taking a 5"x5" square piece of foil and place it over your fingers. Fold the foil around your fingers and carefully fold the sides up to create a mold. Fit the mold into a cup of your muffin pan and press into place.

Lemon donuts are a sweet dessert that are usually fried, although for a less heavy version they can be baked. The batter is formed into a ring shape, similar to a bagel, but thinner and with a wider hole in the middle. The color is a yellow-cream tone and the flavor is sweet and tart.

Dairy-based fillings are likely to go bad at room temperature, and jelly fillings can grow mold. It's best to refrigerate any leftover filled doughnuts in an airtight container. Refrigerated doughnuts will keep for 3-4 days.

Use real cake flour – not DIY cake flour!

DIY substitutions don't really cut it, and AP flour will not create doughnuts with that same soft texture. Also, bleached cake flour will work best. Unbleached (like King Arthur Baking) won't absorb as much moisture, and you may end up with doughnuts that crumble while frying.

Does Krispy Kreme use milk products or eggs in their doughnuts? Ingredient Information: The only animal by-products used in our doughnuts are eggs (whites and yolks) and dairy products (including milk, butter, yogurt, whey, nonfat milk and nonfat whey).

Just about every type and brand of doughnut contain dairy. But the good news is that Krispy Kreme brand has a special limited edition doughnut that is certified by The Vegan Society as having no animal products, and that includes no eggs and not any kind of dairy. Try using Google and find Krispy Kreme online.

- Our cake donuts contain wheat and soy. - Some traces of soy lecithin are in our yeast raised donuts. - We use coconut milk for some of the glazes. - Our donuts are free of dairy products and eggs used in traditional donuts.

Should you refrigerate gluten-free donuts? ›

These gluten free donuts can be stored at room temperature for 2 to 3 days. Just keep them in an airtight container, away from heat. It's important that they cool completely first, to prevent them from becoming mushy with moisture. You can also freeze for your donuts.

Jelly Doughnut

These classic doughnuts are typically round without a hole in the middle, and generally leavened with yeast. The center is stuffed with jelly, jam, or preserves (and sometimes chocolate!), giving you a burst of flavor with each bite.

Baked doughnuts are smaller, baking powder driven and more compact. A typical fried glazed donut will be around 269 calories, while a baked donut will have much fewer. The difference is the fact that you won't be dealing with any extra fat from the oil from frying when you bake.

Bavarian cream doughnuts are rolled in (powdered) sugar and made with pastry cream that has been mixed with whipped cream. Boston cream doughnuts are filled with vanilla pastry cream and dipped in chocolate.

Boston cream donuts are always topped with chocolate and filled with pastry cream, just like a Boston cream pie or my Boston cream cupcakes.

The Boston cream doughnut (or Boston cream pie doughnut, also spelled donut, or simply Boston Cream) is a round, solid, yeast-risen doughnut with chocolate frosting and a custard filling, resulting in a doughnut reminiscent of a miniature Boston cream pie.