Caramel Coconut Snowmen Donuts

Baked caramel coconut donuts all dressed up to look like snowmen! These are SO adorable and easy to put together!!

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Caramel Coconut Snowmen Donuts

Baked caramel donuts are dipped in white icing and coconut to make fun, fluffy snowmen.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Additional Time20

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: baked caramel donuts, caramel coconut donuts, caramel donuts, coconut, eggs, flour, snowmen donuts, sugar

Servings: donuts

Author: Beth

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp caramel flavor
1 large egg
3 tbsp vegetable oil
3 whole rectangles of vanilla candiquik plus 1/2 tbsp vegetable shortening divided* some used for dipping the donuts, some used as ‘glue’
shredded coconut enough to generously cover each donut
carrots cut into triangles for noses stuck into the donut with a toothpick
round black candies to make mouth
round white candies for eyes with black food coloring paint or black colored white chocolate

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a donut pan with cooking spray, use a paper towel to lightly spread/remove excess spray.
In a small bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine caramel flavor, egg, and oil. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, stir until combined and no flour remains.
Transfer the batter to the donut pan, either using a large piping bag or a ziploc bag with one corner cut off. Or you can spoon the batter into the pan using 2 spoons. Fill each donut hole about 2/3 full – but not completely full.
Bake the donuts for 10-13 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let the donuts sit in the pan for 10 minutes before moving to a wire rack.
Melt 3 rectangles of vanilla candiquik in the microwave. I like to microwave mine with a little bit of crisco for 2 minutes on 50% power. Continue to microwave on 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds until the chocolate is melted.
For dipping, it’s easiest to transfer the chocolate to a small shallow dish, but large enough to fit a donut in. While hanging onto the edges of the donut, dip each donut into the chocolate and pause for a few seconds while the donut is upside down to allow to excess to fall off. Allow the donuts to cool on a tray for a few minutes before adding the coconut, however you don’t want them to cool completely, otherwise the coconut won’t stick to the chocolate.
Place the shredded coconut into another shallow dish and dip each donut into the coconut, making sure that all of the chocolate gets covered with coconut. Return the donuts to the tray.
Begin to add the snowmen details. Cut a carrot or carrots into 6 long triangle shapes (like noses) and attach them to the donuts using a toothpick. Stick one end of the tooth pick in the carrot and stick the other in the donut where you want it.
Next add eyeballs. I used white m&ms and drew black eyes on them using a black food coloring paint marker. You could also use a little bit of melted milk chocolate to draw eyeballs onto the white m&ms. To get the eyeballs to stick to the donuts, use some of the melted white chocolate as glue.
Finally, add round black candies to make a mouth. I found my round black candies in the bulk section of my grocery store. Use the melted white chocolate to glue the candies to the donut.

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