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Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins

Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins. These powdered donut muffins with raspberry jam filling are a great brunch alternative to high fat fried donuts but with plenty of authentic donut flavour.

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Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins

These soft, moist cake donut muffins remind me of little jam filled round donut balls made by local bakeries years ago. They could be found at your local neighbourhood store or supermarket when I was growing up here in Newfoundland.

As a kid I remember thinking that I would make them with more jam inside and roll them in powdered sugar too. That memory of childhood inspired this variation of cake donut muffins.

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Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins

Although these filled donut muffins are still an indulgence, they are at least baked, not fried like regular donuts. Now you can rationalize having two!

These are awesome as lunchbox surprises or as the highlight of your weekend brunch.

Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins close up photo of a muffin on a wooden cutting board

Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins

If you want to make a homemade compote to use as a filling in these filled donut muffins, I have a suggestion. The raspberry compote in our very popular Homemade Flakies recipe is perfect to use as a donut filling too.

Homemade flakies with coffee service in the background

Homemade Flakies with Raspberry Compote and Vanilla Cream

If you still want to use a store bought jam in these filled donut muffins, try purchasing a more fruit/reduced sugar version. You may find some brands too sweet to use as a filling.

Originally published April 2013.

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Yield: 12 muffins.

Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

Raspberry Filled Donut Muffins. These powdered donut muffins with raspberry jam filling are a great brunch alternative to high fat fried donuts but with plenty of authentic donut flavour.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • ¾ cup all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup cake and pastry flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • ¾ cup whipping cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ½ cup raspberry jam
  • melted butter
  • powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Sift together the flours, salt, baking powder and nutmeg. Set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the egg and sugar until very light in color.
  4. Add the oil and whisk in well, then add the whipping cream until well blended.
  5. Fold in the dry ingredients by hand just until the dry ingredients are incorporated into the batter. Do not over mix.
  6. Bake for about 13 minutes for mini muffins or 15-18 minutes for larger muffins. Watch them carefully and as soon as a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, take them out. It is very easy to over bake mini muffins especially.
  7. Let them cool for 10 minutes before removing them from the pan. Cool on a wire rack.
  8. When the muffins are cooled, fill a piping bag about ½ cup raspberry jam. Attach a star tip or other larger open tip to the piping bag.
  9. Push the piping bag tip into the center of the muffin. This can be done on the top or side of the muffin. Wiggle the piping bag tip around a little bit to create a cavity before squeezing the piping bag to fill the cavity.
  10. When all of your muffins are filled, brush the outsides of the muffins with a little melted butter and roll them in powdered sugar before serving.

Notes

If you want to make a homemade compote to use as a filling in these filled donut muffins, I have a suggestion. The raspberry compote in our very popular compote in our very popular Homemade Flakies recipe is perfect to use as a donut filling too.

If you still want to use a store bought jam in these filled donut muffins, try purchasing a more fruit/reduced sugar version. You may find some brands too sweet to use as a filling.

Nutrition Information

Yield

12

Serving Size

1 grams

Amount Per Serving Calories 373Total Fat 18gSaturated Fat 8gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 9gCholesterol 57mgSodium 286mgCarbohydrates 49gFiber 1gSugar 29gProtein 4g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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Brenda

Friday 27th of January 2023

Made this 2x, first time they didn't rise, were flat. You didn't indicate if the vanilla goes in the liquids, so I did anyway. I tested my b. powder, it was sufficient. Second time around added 1 3/4 CUP AP flour, baked 22 minutes 350, oven middle rack cooled 10 minutes in paper lined muffin tin. Not a huge rise. tastes wonderful though.

Coltonk

Friday 8th of February 2019

Has anyone tried putting the jam in the middle of the muffin before baking

Liza

Sunday 11th of February 2018

What size of muffin tins did you use? when you say large do you mean jumbo or the regular size? they look amazing thank you for the recipe!

Barry C. Parsons

Tuesday 13th of February 2018

Regular size, although I find they do very by manufacturer.

Grace

Saturday 25th of March 2017

Made these this morning using strawberry jam. After I was finished making them I realized I'd forgotten to brush the muffins with the melted butter before rolling them in the icing sugar. Either way it turned out delicious. Thank you Barry for sharing your recipes.

The Hungry Mum

Saturday 10th of January 2015

These are calling my name- I love a liberal does of icing sugar on baked goods :)

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