Doughnuts Filled with Caramel Applesauce

Name: Doughnuts Filled with Caramel Applesauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 plastic syringe, or pastry bag with tip (if you have two of either, or even one of each, life will be easier); 1 plastic syringe, or pastry bag with tip (if you have two of either, or even one of each, life will be easier); 4 cooking apples, peeled, cored, and chopped; 1 recipe quantity of Salted Butter Caramel Sauce; 12 ready-made or store-bought small doughnuts

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Caramel

By Trish Deseine

Published 2006

About

This is an ideal activity for cooking with children. Adults will need to make the caramel, but children over the age of about 7 should be able to help with the applesauce.

Ingredients

4 cooking apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
12 ready-made or store-bought small doughnuts
1 recipe quantity of

Sauce
Vegetarian

Method

Put the apples in a pan with some water and cook until soft. Transfer to a blender and reduce to a purée. Let cool completely.

Using a sharp knife, bore a hole in the doughnuts.

Using the syringe or pastry bag, inject the doughnuts with some of the caramel sauce, followed by some of the applesauce. (You can now see where separate syringes, or pastry bags, for the caramel and app