Name: Heart-Shaped Cake Donuts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 17 min
Total time: 27 min
Ingredients: 15.25 ounces strawberry cake mix; ½ cup milk; 2 eggs; ½ cup strawberry frosting; ¼ cup vegetable oil; Valentine themed sprinkles

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Check out these awesome heart-shaped donuts made from strawberry cake mix! They’re topped with super tasty strawberry frosting and sprinkled with fun pink, red, and white heart sprinkles. Perfect for any Valentine’s Day celebration or just treating yourself to something sweet!

Lovestruck cake donuts on parchment paper on the counter.

Serves: 12
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 17 minutes

Ingredients:

strawberry cake mix
milk
eggs
strawberry frosting
vegetable oil
Valentine themed sprinkles

Strawberry cake mix, strawberry frosting, vegetable oil, milk, eggs and valentine themed sprinkles on a pink heart shaped placemat on the counter.

Get the full printable instructions with measurements at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

Step-by-Step Directions:

Step 1: Set oven to 350ºF. Spray donut molds with non-stick spray. Place the cake mix, eggs, milk, and vegetable oil into a mixing bowl and, using an electric mixer, combine until smooth.

Egg, oil, milk, and strawberry cake mix in a large white mixing bowl on red and light pink placemats on the counter.

Mixed strawberry cake batter in a large white mixing bowl on red and light pink placemats on the counter.

Step 2: Gently spoon the batter into the heart-shaped donut molds. Bake for 13-17 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes clean. Allow the donuts to cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes before carefully removing them and placing them on a wire cooking rack to cool completely. *Alternately, you can pipe the batter into the heart-shaped molds.

A video of how to carefully spoon batter into heart-shaped molds on a light pick placemat on the counter.

Step 3: Put ¼-½ of the strawberry frosting into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the frosting for 10-20 seconds until it is slightly running and warmed.

Step 4: Dunk each donut into the melted frosting and immediately decorate with sprinkles. *Alternatively, you can drizzle the melted frosting over the top of each donut.

dunking a strawberry donut into warmed and runny strawberry frosting.

Love Struck cake donuts with sprinkles on a cooling rack on the counter.

Tips:

Alternatively, you can pipe the batter into the heart-shaped molds.
Alternatively, you can drizzle the melted frosting over the top of each donut.
You can use additional frosting if you’d like.

Heart-Shaped Cake Donuts

Check out these awesome heart-shaped donuts made from strawberry cake mix!

Tara

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 17

Total Time 27

Servings

Equipment

heart-shaped donut mold

Ingredients

15.25 ounces strawberry cake mix
½ cup milk
2 eggs
½ cup strawberry frosting
¼ cup vegetable oil
Valentine themed sprinkles

Instructions

Set oven to 350ºF. Spray donut molds with non-stick spray. Place the cake mix, eggs, milk, and vegetable oil into a mixing bowl and, using an electric mixer, combine until smooth.
Gently spoon the batter into the heart-shaped donut molds. Bake for 13-17 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes clean. Allow the donuts to cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes before carefully removing them and placing them on a wire cooking rack to cool completely. *Alternately, you can pipe the batter into the heart-shaped molds.
Put ¼-½ of the strawberry frosting into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the frosting for 10-20 seconds until it is slightly running and warmed.
Dunk each donut into the melted frosting and immediately decorate with sprinkles. *Alternatively, you can drizzle the melted frosting over the top of each donut.