Make a fun fall treat for your family with these simple and cute acorn donut holes!

Fall is here! As if there aren’t enough fall treats and snacks floating out there, I thought I might add one more to the list. These delightful acorn donut holes are a fun treat for your kids and family, and they are simple to make. I am not making my own donuts here… I am all about making things simple.

I had some left over plain donut holes that were likely going to sit until they went bad. Everyone likes the flavored or frosted ones, so the plain ones tend to just sit around. Instead of letting them go to waste, I decided to make them into a fun treat the kids couldn’t resist!

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Ingredients

You can definitely mix these ingredients up with other things, but what I used is below.

Try it without peanuts, try peanut butter chips instead of butterscotch, or just use chocolate. Mix up the ingredients to make it what you like!

About the Acorn Donut Holes

Donut Holes

I really suggest using plain donut holes for this recipe. You can use glazed or flavored ones, but it would become so sweet in my opinion. It really entirely depends on how sweet you want these to be.

Baking Chips

I say baking chips because you can really use whatever flavors you would like to. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips and butterscotch chips mixed together. You can do this with peanut butter chips, or just chocolate chips. You can also you milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate… whatever you prefer.

When you melt your baking chips you can either do it in a double boiler, or in the microwave with a microwave safe bowl. I don’t own a double boiler, so I melted mine in the microwave. The key is to heat them in very small increments, such as 15 seconds, stirring between each interval. You want the chips to be just melted, even with some chunks left (just mix them in until they melt). If you overheat the chips in the microwave they will start to burn and chunk together, it will never become smooth after that.

Toppings

The toppings for these can really be whatever you would like them to be. I had nut topping for ice cream and white sprinkles on hand, so I decided to use those. You can use cute colored fall sprinkles, nut topping, candy topping, or any type of topping/coating for deserts. Use this for decoration, or for flavor!

The easiest method for topping these after dipping them in the melted chips is to have small bowls with your toppings ready. This makes it quick to just dip them in and not worry about sprinkling or getting good ingredients messy or mixed together.

Pretzel Sticks

Make sure to use the thin pretzel sticks. These will be the stem on your “acorn”. I found that these are the perfect size if you break them into thirds and use the two end pieces. You can also break them in half, they are just a little long in my opinion.

How To Clean Melted Chocolate

The easiest way I have found to clean melted chocolate chips from a bowl is to do it before it dries. I have heard of methods where you freeze it and it breaks out. I’ve tried this without much success.

My suggestion is to take paper towel and wipe out the remaining chocolate as best as you can. There should only be a very thin layer of melted chocolate remaining in your bowl after wiping.

Once your bowl is mostly wiped out, place this bowl under hot tap water and allow it to fill at least half way. Use a dish rag or paper towel to wipe the edges again with the water inside. This will dilute the rest of the chocolate and remove it from the bowl sides. After that, your bowl should be cleaned out entirely!

Check out the recipe below. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions in the comments below!

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Delightful Acorn Donut Holes

Make a fun fall treat for your family with these simple and cute acorn donut holes!

5 from 2 votes

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Prep Time 25

Cook Time 2

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 10 people