Bread Machine Jelly Donuts: mini heart shaped jelly donuts, with an easy to make bread machine dough. Perfect for Valentine’s Day dessert, or anytime.

These Jelly Donuts are the perfect Valentine’s Day treat….or any other occasion treat…maybe just the perfect treat in general. If you’ve never made homemade donuts before, this is the recipe for you, because the hard part is all done in the bread machine. These bread machine donuts are really easy to make.
And trust me, no one will ever know, they’ll be too busy saying things like “you made donuts…you are amazing, the donuts are amazing, you and the donuts are amazing.”
I’ve made donuts a few times -like these Homemade Honey Crullers, the kind of tricky part is deep frying them. But these weren’t even made in a deep fryer, I just used a little pot of oil on the stove and oil thermometer. When you taste them, you will think it was worth the trouble. Trust me.
Easy Bread Maker Donuts
So start out with your trusty old bread maker machine. Set it to the dough setting and let it do all the hard work.
Jelly Donuts
Ingredients
Instructions
Hearts for Valentine’s Day
I thought it would be fun to make these into mini hearts for Valentine’s day. And, it was. They were so, so cute.
Special Jelly Donut Filling Tip
I did try once before to make jelly donuts and I had a little trouble getting the jelly inside. This time I was prepared and picked up a #230 tip for my icing bag. It’s long and thin, and perfect for poking into the donut and squeezing in the jam.
If you’re going to make these I highly recommend picking this little guy up first. I’ve tried in the past with a ziplock bag, and a regular icing tip on an icing bag, but it’s too hard to get the jam pushed all the way inside the donut. This special tip worked perfectly.
These, like any donuts, are best eaten as soon as you make them.
Make the Dough Ahead
You can however, make the dough ahead of time. I saved half my dough, wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge over night, and it still worked great.
So, if you were thinking of making these for your sweetheart for breakfast, you could make the dough the night before and just fry them in the morning. And then your sweetheart will love you even more.
With homemade heart shaped jelly donuts, life really is a party!
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You might also like our Honey Cruller Donuts here.
Also checkout our Nutella Mini Donuts here.
You might also enjoy our Mini Brownie Donuts here.
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