Doughnut recipes
Baked or fried, filled with jam or crammed with custard…however you like your doughnuts you’ll find them in our doughnut recipes collection.
These sugar-dusted delights include classic jam doughnuts, London bakery Bread Ahead’s cult custard doughnuts, and moreish mini doughnut muffins. You’ll also find the best doughnuts from around the world, including beignets, churros and gulab jamun.
Which doughnut recipe will you try first?
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Baking recipes
Nicola Lamb’s crullers
Learn how to make crullers with baker Nicola Lamb. These elegant pastries' grooves are ideal for holding a flavourful glaze or topping.
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Doughnut recipes
Honey & Co’s almond drop doughnuts
Honey & Co's doughnuts are a joy to eat: a little squidgy and ultra-light. Ground almonds, lemon zest and cinnamon sugar add flavour.
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Baking recipes
Soured cream sage doughnuts
Give Canadian-style soured cream doughnuts a deliciously unexpected flavour twist. Sage adds a delicate herbal note. Serve with coffee.
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Air fryer recipes
Air fryer doughnuts with quick berry compote
Whether you call them doughnuts, beignets or fritters, these little balls of air-fried batter are an absolute delight (and ready in under 20 minutes).
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Festive desserts
Jam doughnuts with lemon and cinnamon syrup (sufganiyot loukoumades)
These jam doughnuts are a delicious cross between Sufganiyot, eaten during Hanukkah, and Loukoumades, little Greek doughnuts coated in honey.
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Pumpkin recipes
Bread Ahead’s pumpkin spiced doughnuts
These puffy doughnuts from the famed London bakery Bread Ahead are filled with pumpkin custard and dipped in toffee.
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Mini dessert recipes
Danish apple doughnuts (æbleskiver)
Trine Hahnemann's home-made version of æbleskiver - Danish baked doughnuts - are apple-flavoured morsels of doughy heaven.
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Dinner party dessert recipes
Rose and pistachio gulab jamun
Sticky, rosewater-scented gulab jamun are brilliant small bites to nibble on at a party, Eid or Diwali celebration.
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Brunch recipes
Chilli chocolate churros
Martha Collinson's sugar-dusted churros come with a chilli kick. They're perfect as a Valentine's dessert or (chilli-free) breakfast treat.
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Doughnut recipes
Beignets
These nutmeg-scented beignets dusted in icing sugar are a little like a doughut and make the perfect sweet treat to nibble on for move night.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Mini doughnut muffins
Martha Collison's mini jam doughnut muffins are a quick fix when you're craving doughnuts – they make a moreish afternoon tea treat.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Custard doughnuts
Recreate Bread Ahead Bakery's famous vanilla custard doughnuts – soft, pillowy and oozing rich custard – at home using their recipe.
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Damson recipes
Damson roly-poly doughnut puddings with boozy custard
What happens when you cross a roly-poly pudding with a jam doughnut? A recipe that you'll be cooking up and showing off time and time again.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Jammy doughnuts
If you've ever wondered how to make jam doughnuts, this versatile recipe has tips for filled doughnuts, ring doughuts, and various flavours.
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