Blueberry Cake Donuts (delicious baked blueberry donuts recipe)

Looking for ways to use your blueberry harvest or leftover blueberries from the store? Or needing some new ideas for breakfasts or snacks? I’m sharing a delicious new baked blueberry donuts recipe! These blueberry cake donuts have a light, muffin-like flavor and are great for breakfast for snacks. If you’ve been searching for blueberry cake donut recipes, this easy, yummy homemade blueberry donuts recipe is the one you’ve been waiting for! Check out step-by-step photos and cooking tips for my blueberry glaze donuts below (including a quick blueberry-infused glaze), or click the Jump to Recipe button above if you want to get straight to the blueberry cake donut recipe.

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What you need to make this blueberry cake donut recipe

To make this recipe for blueberry donuts, you’ll need the following:

• Donut baking pan(s). I made them using this 2-pack of 6-cavity pans from Wilton (affiliate link).
• Nonstick cooking spray
• 2 cups cake flour, spooned and leveled, divided
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (for the donuts) plus an additional 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (for the glaze)
• 1 cup blueberries, divided
• 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
• 1-2 tablespoons milk

How to make homemade blueberry glaze donuts

To make this baked blueberry cake donut recipe, start by preheating the oven to 425°F and spraying your donut pan(s) with nonstick cooking spray (I used this 2-pack of 6-cavity pans from Wilton). This recipe yields 12 donuts.

Separate 1 tablespoon of your flour and set it aside. In a large bowl, sift together the remaining flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add buttermilk, eggs, butter, and vanilla, and stir with a whisk until just combined.

Separate 2 tablespoons of your blueberries and set them aside for later. Toss the remaining blueberries with the reserved 1 tablespoon of flour in a small bowl. This trick will help suspend the blueberries in the batter (so they don’t all sink to the bottom of the pan while the blueberry donuts bake).

Next, fold the flour-coated blueberries into the batter.

Add the batter to a piping bag (or large zipper bag with the corner snipped off with a large enough hole for the blueberries to fit through) – you may have to work in batches. Pipe the blueberry cake donuts batter into the cavities of the prepared donut pans, filling the cavities approximately 2/3 full with the batter. Using the piping method helps them bake at a consistent donut shape, as the batter is pretty thick. Be careful not to overfill the cavities, or the donuts may rise and bake over the center hole in the donuts.

Bake the homemade blueberry donuts for 7-9 minutes, or until the tops of the donuts spring back when touched. Let the blueberry cake donuts cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

When the blueberry cake donut recipe is almost cool, crush the remaining 2 tablespoons of blueberries in a bowl until completely mashed and the skins broken up into small pieces (I used a meat mallet, but you could use a cocktail muddler or even a fork). Add powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of the milk, and vanilla extract to the bowl with the crushed berries and whisk until the mixture is smooth. If the glaze is too thick, you can gradually add an additional 1/2 tablespoon of milk at a time as needed. If the glaze is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar.

One at a time, dip one side of the cooled donuts into the glaze, allowing the excess to run off into the bowl. Place the blueberry glaze donuts on a wire rack and allow the glaze to set before serving.

Aren’t these blueberry baked donuts lovely?

The texture of this blueberry cake donut recipe is such a treat!

The homemade blueberry glaze adds the right amount of extra sweetness to compliment the cakey donuts.

I could use a bite of these blueberry cake donuts right now! I can’t wait to hear what you think of this baked blueberry donuts recipe! Here are the instructions! Enjoy!