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Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

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Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

You had me at caramel. Or donut. Or Caramel Apple Donuts!  OMG!  Y’all, I do have to say that I’ve made some delicious donuts for this here website, but I think this one might take the cake.

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Yes.  I went there.  I know I’m a total dork.

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Don’t judge me.

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

It’s ok to be dorky because we have made it more than halfway through the week and now we are on the other side sailing in to happy weekend freedom that I hope will be filled with lots of wine, cheat day foods, and unlimited amounts of sleep with no alarm clocks.  And Caramel Apple Baked Donuts!  You totally need to treat yourself and celebrate fall with these dang donuts.  They’re even baked and have real apples in them, so they have to be good for you, right?  If not, who cares because helloooooooo weekend and all things enjoyable!

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

I’m not sure what in tarnation y’all are up to this weekend, but I sure hope it’s relaxing, happy, and full of delicious goodies.  Seriously, grab a caramel apple donut, man!  I won’t tell anyone.  But I may join you!

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe
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Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 3/4 cups milk
  • 1 egg lightly beaten
  • 1 cup applesauce - see notes

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Coat 2 donut pans with cooking spray
  3. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt
  4. In a separate bowl combine milk, egg, and applesauce
  5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just combined
  6. Spoon into prepared donut pans more than 3/4 full but not quite all the way to the top
  7. Bake 23 - 26 minutes
  8. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool
  9. Drizzle with prepared caramel sauce

Notes

  1. I used my own slow cooker homemade applesauce recipe.  If you use jarred applesauce from the grocery, you may need to adjust the sweetness and/or seasonings
  2. If the donuts stick in the pans a little bit, just loosen them with a rubber spatula and they should pop right out
  3. This recipe made 24 donuts and I used about 1/3 of a 12 ounce jar of caramel sauce
Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe

Caramel Apple Baked Donuts Recipe is so good with gooey caramel and fresh apples baked to perfection topped with more caramel sauce | Beer Girl Cooks

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

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Mondays should always start with beer and donuts.

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

And glaze.  Lots and lots of glaze.

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

It’s peach season after all, so shouldn’t we be living it up?  We’re putting peaches in everything over here. I know you probably have an expectation of ice cream or popsicles in just about every post coming your way because that’s just the way I roll.  And it’s summer and it’s dang hot, but we need some variety up in here, don’t we?  So I bring you beer, and peaches, and donuts, (I gave up on the proper spelling because I’m a SEO ho), so Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts are the star of this show!

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

You can go wrong with that, right?  Beer makes everything better.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

Sorry, y’all!  I was so distracted by peach beer and donuts, I forgot to ask how your weekend was and what in tarnation you have been up to?  We had a week of relaxation of the stay-cation then sadly, we had to return to real life.  Fortunately, we followed that work week up with a weekend filled with fun and some down time.  And now it’s Monday again.  I vote that we switch things around and the work week is 2 days and the weekend is 5!  Who’s with me?

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

If only I ruled the world.  Things would totally be different.

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

Have a fantastic week, friends!  I hope your week is filled with beer, donuts, peaches, and all things delicious and fun!

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

And glaze.  Lots and lots of glaze!

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts
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Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts

Ingredients

For the Donuts

  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Pinch of nutmeg
  • 1 large egg room temperature and lightly beaten
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup peach ale
  • 2 tablespoons butter melted
  • 8 ounce cream cheese softened
  • 2 - 3 peaches peeled and very small diced

For the Glaze

  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 - 4 teaspoons vanilla bean paste according to taste
  • 1/2 cup whole milk - start with 1/4 cup then add 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency - this can be halved because I love a lot of glaze

Instructions

For the Donuts

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, milk, butter, vanilla bean paste, peach ale
  4. Gently stir the wet ingredients into the dry, then stir in the cream cheese - cream cheese may be lumpy, but it's ok
  5. Coat donut pans with cooking spray
  6. Spoon batter into donut pans almost all the way full - evenly sprinkle in peach pieces into the batter in the pan - NOTE: I did it before and after adding the batter and it made no difference
  7. Bake 23 - 26 minutes
  8. Cool for 5 minutes or so on a wire rack then turn out on rack to cool completely

For the Glaze

  1. Add sugar to a bowl and stir in vanilla bean paste and 1/4 cup milk
  2. Continue adding milk 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached
  3. Pour over donuts

Peach Ale Peaches and Cream Donuts