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.
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Doughnut recipes
Honey & Co’s almond drop doughnuts
These speedy doughnuts from Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer of London’s Honey & Co are a joy to eat. They’re...
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Doughnut recipes
Manon Lagrève’s beignets
You can’t beat a doughnut, and French beignets are a great version! We love this recipe from Manon Lagrève, which...
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Baking recipes
Soured cream sage doughnuts
Food writer Benjamina Ebuehi loves to experiment with flavour, and she’s given these soured cream doughnuts a deliciously unexpected herbal...
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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...
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Festive desserts
Jam doughnuts with lemon and cinnamon syrup (sufganiyot loukoumades)
Joe Baur’s jam doughnuts are a delicious cross between sufganiyot, eaten during Hanukkah, and loukoumades, little Greek doughnuts which are...
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Pumpkin recipes
Bread Ahead’s pumpkin spiced doughnuts
These puffy globes from the famed London bakery Bread Ahead are filled with pumpkin custard and dipped in toffee. They...
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Mini dessert recipes
Danish apple doughnuts (æbleskiver)
Danish food writer and chef 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
Gulab jamun are essentially deep-fried dough balls which are soaked in a sweet syrup – so the sweet-toothed among you...
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Brunch recipes
Chilli chocolate churros
Martha Collison‘s sugar-dusted churros come with a chilli kick – they’re perfect as a Valentine’s Day dessert. Martha says: “If...
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Doughnut recipes
Beignets
These nutmeg-scented beignets dusted in icing sugar are the perfect sweet treat to nibble on for movie night. Need something...
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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...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Custard doughnuts
Doughnuts from the Bread Ahead bakery are very popular in the delicious. office. Recreate their famous vanilla custard doughnuts –...
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Mini dessert recipes
Ras el hanout doughnuts
Craving something sugary and oh-so-naughty? Doughnut worry we have you covered – these North African spiced sweet treats are guaranteed to...
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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 and showing...
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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...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Jam doughnuts
Follow our foolproof recipe for warm, pillowy, sugar-coated jam doughnuts – they’re easier to make than you might think. Calling...
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