Raspberry Filled Caramel Donut Holes

These baked Raspberry Filled Caramel Donut Holes are the perfect weekend treat and easy to make at home.  Caramel flavored donut holes are filled with raspberry preserves before being brushed with butter and rolled in caramel sugar.  

For Christmas and my birthday, my husband and children hit a local kitchen store and pick and choose items they think I’d enjoy as gifts.  (I swear I’m easy to shop for but they would disagree.)  This past Christmas, one of those gifts was a cake pop baking pan that was selected by my son.  This is the treat he loves to pick out each time we go to Starbucks together.  Being six months pregnant at the time, I smiled and said my thank yous for the gift and then put the pan into my cabinet, forgetting about it until the last few weeks.

When my friends at Robert Rothschild Farm sent me their amazing Seedless Red Raspberry Preserves to create a new recipe with, my thoughts turned to that pan that’s been sitting in my cabinet for the last six months.  You know what looks a lot like a cake pop minus the stick?  A donut hole!  So on a rainy Saturday morning a few weeks ago, I was in the kitchen mixing a large bowl of batter to see if my idea would work.  Lo and behold, it did!

Caramel flavored donut holes are filled with delicious raspberry preserves – the same ones that sparked the entire donut hole idea in the first place! – before being brushed with butter and rolled in caramel sugar.  These donut holes are proof that you don’t need to change out of your pajamas on a Saturday morning to enjoy donut holes.  They’re also proof that you don’t need a pot of bubbling oil for delicious donut holes as my recipe is baked, not fried.  Forget the local bakery and embrace the bedhead and create these finger licking spheres in the comfort of your own home!

Melanie Bauer

Yields 8 dozen

Raspberry Filled Caramel Donut Holes

20 minPrep Time

15 minCook Time

35 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons caramel extract
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
• 5-1/3 cup flour
• 2 cups milk
• 11 ounces Robert Rothschild Farm Seedless Red Raspberry Preserves
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon caramel extract
• 1/2 cup butter, melted

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter, vegetable oil, sugar and brown sugar.
3. Add eggs and 2 teaspoons caramel extract and mix until combined.
4. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt.
5. Stir in flour and milk, alternating between the two and beginning and ending with the flour until just combined.
6. Using a tablespoon scoop , add batter to cavities of cake pop pan . Place top on pan and lock into place.
7. Bake 15-17 minutes or until golden.
8. Fill pastry bag or ziptop bag with corner snipped and fitted with decorating tip with plain circular opening with preserves. Push tip into the top of each donut hole and squeeze bag as you pull it from the center of each donut hole.
9. Remove holes to cooling rack.
10. Stir 1/8 teaspoon caramel extract into sugar.
11. Brush each filled hole with butter and roll in caramel sugar mixture.
12. Enjoy immediately.

Notes

I've seen other donut hole recipes which say that you can bake them in a mini muffin pan with great results. In testing my recipe, I found that baking them this way created dense donut holes rather than the light and airy ones created by using a cake pop baking pan.

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Melanie Bauer | Melanie Makes

I’ve created a monster – make that three monsters! – with these Raspberry Filled Caramel Donut Holes.  Each time my three oldest children heard the oven timer beep signaling another dozen donut holes was ready to come out, they were all hightailing it to the kitchen and begging for “just one more.”  Needless to say, I’ve ordered another cake pop pan so that I can make two dozen at a time to hopefully keep everyone’s belly happy and full of donut holes!

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I was compensated by Robert Rothschild Farm to create a recipe featuring their product.  As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.   Thank you for supporting this sponsor that allows me the opportunity to create content, such as this, for Melanie Makes.