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Baked Caramel Apple Cider Donuts

Baked Caramel Apple Cider Donuts, so soft and wonderfully flavorful, drenched in caramel sauce. Top with some crushed nuts if you'd like a little crunch.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword easy dessert recipes, easy donut recipes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 223kcal

Ingredients

For the Donuts:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoons baking soda
  • ½ teaspoons cinnamon
  • teaspoons nutmeg
  • teaspoons allspice
  • ½ teaspoons salt
  • cup maple syrup
  • ½ cup apple cider
  • 4 Tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

For the Caramel Topping:

  • 1 ½ cup caramel candy squares like Brach's
  • 1 Tablespoons whole milk

Instructions

For Donuts:

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease or spray your donut pan.
  • In a mixing bowl, combine your dry ingredients: the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt.
  • In another bowl, whisk the maple syrup, apple cider, oil and vanilla.
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until combined... the dough will be thick.
  • Spoon the batter into a piping bag or a plastic baggie with the corner snipped and pipe the dough into the prepared donut pans. Fill each space to about 3/4 full.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes, until donuts springs back when gently pressed. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool completely before adding icing/caramel topping.

For the Caramel Topping:

  • In a microwaveable bowl, add caramels & milk. Heat for 1 minute. Remove and stir. Heat an additional 30 seconds, stir and then repeat at 30 second intervals until fully melted.
  • With a spoon drizzle caramel over the donuts or just kinda slather it on like I did. :)

Nutrition

Calories: 223kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 270mg | Potassium: 108mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 15IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 85mg | Iron: 1mg