These Caramel Apple Baked Donuts are a perfect fall dessert with a fun spin on the classic caramel apple!
Caramel Apple Baked Donuts
INGREDIENTS (yields 12-14)
Donut batter:
2 cup Flour
3/4 cup Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Salt
3/4 cup Buttermilk or (3/4 cup Milk + 1/4 tsp Lemon juice or White Vinegar)
2 beaten Eggs
2 tbsp melted Butter
3/4 cup shredded Apples
Topping:
11 oz Kraft Caramels
1/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup chopped Nuts
DIRECTIONS
Add lemon juice to milk (buttermilk substitute).
Preheat oven to 425
Grease Donut pan
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt in large bowl.
Add buttermilk, eggs and butter.
Stir just until well mixed.
Fold in shredded apples.
Fill each ring about 2/3 but make sure it doesn’t top center hole.
Bake about 8 minutes, until tops rebound when pressed.
Leave donut in pan for about 5 minutes.
Remove from pan and set on cooling rack.
Unwrap caramels and place in small sauce pan.
Add milk and heat over low heat stirring frequently until melted.
Allow to cool until warm.
Dip cooled donuts in caramel and place on rack.
Sprinkle top with chopped nuts.
Wait for glaze to set.
Caramel Apple Baked Donuts
Ingredients
- Donut batter:
- 2 cup Flour
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3/4 cup Buttermilk or, 3/4 cup Milk + 1/4 tsp Lemon juice or White Vinegar
- 2 beaten Eggs
- 2 tbsp melted Butter
- 3/4 cup shredded Apples
- Topping:
- 11 oz Kraft Caramels
- 1/4 cup Milk
- 1/4 cup chopped Nuts
Instructions
- Add lemon juice to milk (buttermilk substitute).
- Preheat oven to 425
- Grease Donut pan
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt in large bowl.
- Add buttermilk, eggs and butter.
- Stir just until well mixed.
- Fold in shredded apples.
- Fill each ring about 2/3 but make sure it doesn't top center hole.
- Bake about 8 minutes, until tops rebound when pressed.
- Leave donut in pan for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from pan and set on cooling rack.
- Unwrap caramels and place in small sauce pan.
- Add milk and heat over low heat stirring frequently until melted.
- Allow to cool until warm.
- Dip cooled donuts in caramel and place on rack.
- Sprinkle top with chopped nuts.
- Wait for glaze to set.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Liz Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys cooking and baking, food photography, and reading.
Liz
Monday 2nd of September 2019
This recipe looks absolutely brilliant!! You can never have too much caramel!! :-D