Healthier Lemon Poppy Seed Donuts

Baked instead of fried, these healthier donuts are flavored with fresh lemon and studded with poppy seeds.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 88 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 2 teaspoons lemon zest
• 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
• cooking spray
• 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon almond milk, at room temperature
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 1.25 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.125 teaspoon salt
• 0.25 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 0.5 cup almond milk, at room temperature
• 0.5 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1.25 teaspoons baking powder
• 0.5 cup granulated sugar substitute (such as Swerve®)
• 2.5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1.25 cups powdered sugar substitute (such as Swerve®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 2 donut pans with nonstick cooking spray.

Step 2

Place granulated sugar substitute and lemon zest in a bowl. Mix until zest is fully coated with sugar. Add egg, butter, lemon juice, vanilla, and lemon extract. Add almond milk and mix until well incorporated.

Step 3

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add to the sugar mixture. Fold in poppy seeds. Divide the batter evenly among the donut pans.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a donut comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and cool completely.

Step 5

While the donuts cool, make the icing. Mix powder sugar substitute, lemon juice, almond milk, lemon zest, vanilla, and salt together in a bowl. Set a rack over a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Dip donuts into the icing and place on the rack until glaze sets, 2 to 3 minutes.