You can hardly ever go wrong when making doughnuts; pretty much everyone is obsessed with them. Ever since gourmet donuts became a huge food trend, people have been trying new flavors and textures to bring to the traditional donut. I’ve seen really beautiful donuts, crazy, over-the-top, delicious donuts, and more. But what I wanted to try was to bring some heat to a traditionally sweet donut.
Recipe adapted from Live Well Bake Often.
Baked Chocolate Donuts
- Prep Time:20 minutes
- Cook Time:8 minutes
- Total Time:28 minutes
- Servings:8
- Medium
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/2 cup Buttermilk
- 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Large egg
- 2 tablespoon Butter (melted)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
Ingredients
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Step 1
Preheat your oven to 350°F.
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Step 2
Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
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Step 3
In a separate bowl, mix together the buttermilk, sugar, egg, butter, and vanilla.
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Step 4
Mix the wet and dry ingredients together
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Step 5
Pour the batter into the greased donut pan, filling about 3/4 of the way.
#SpoonTip: I found it easier to put the batter into a plastic bag, cut the corner, and squeeze the batter into the pan.
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Step 6
Bake for 8 minutes, or until you can stick a toothpick in a donut and it comes out clean.
Cayenne Pepper Glaze
- Prep Time:5 minutes
- Cook Time:0 minutes
- Total Time:5 minutes
- Servings:About 8 glazed doughnuts
- Easy
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoon milk
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Ingredients
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Step 1
Mix together all the ingredients in a bowl. Use as much cayenne pepper as you like, depending on how spicy you want it to be. I suggest adding it little by little, and tasting as you go.
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Step 2
Dip each donut in the glaze, and let sit until the glaze hardens.
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Step 3
Enjoy every bit of this spicy and chocolate-y heaven.