Description
Baked Apple Donuts are a delightful fall treat, featuring a moist and fluffy donut base filled with spiced apple pie filling and coated in cinnamon sugar.
Ingredients
Scale
- For Apple Pie Filling:
- 1 1/4 cup diced gala apples (about 2–3 medium apples)
- 1 ½ tbsp salted butter
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp apple pie spice
- 1 tbsp all purpose flour
- For Donuts:
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup low fat buttermilk
- 3 tbsp salted butter (melted)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp apple pie spice
- For Cinnamon Sugar Topping:
- ¼ cup white granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp salted butter (melted)
Instructions
- Peel, core and dice apples.
- Heat up a sauce pot over medium heat. Add butter and sugar, mix well. Add diced apples and mix.
- Sprinkle in flour and apple pie spice. Mix well, cover and lower the heat to medium-low. Cook until apples are softened, stirring every few minutes. Take off heat and let it cool.
- Preheat oven to 350℉ and grease a donut pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla together until smooth.
- Sift in all dry ingredients and whisk until incorporated.
- Add apple pie filling mixture and mix well using a spatula.
- Transfer the batter into a piping bag.
- Cut the tip off the piping bag, leaving a 3/4 inch opening. Squeeze batter into the donut cups of the pan, filling each cup almost all the way full.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes and let donuts cool on a wire rack until they can be handled.
- For the cinnamon sugar topping, melt butter in a cup and mix sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
- Brush the tops of the donuts with melted butter and dip into the cinnamon sugar mixture until evenly covered. Repeat with all donuts.
Notes
- Make sure to stir the apple filling frequently to prevent sticking.
- For easier filling of the piping bag, place it in a pint glass.
- Allow donuts to cool completely after baking for best results.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 donut
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg