Recipe for baked double chocolate donuts: dark chocolate donuts dipped in a dark chocolate glaze and topped with flaky sea salt.
About Baked Double Chocolate Donuts
These baked double chocolate donuts are essentially cake that you can eat for breakfast! The donut batter uses Dutch process cocoa powder to give you the darkest most decadent chocolate donuts. They are kept very moist by the addition of buttermilk, and their chocolate flavor is enhanced with the addition of brewed coffee. They're finished with a dip of chocolate glaze and sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Ingredients for Baked Double Chocolate Donuts
- Flour- we’ll be using all purpose in these donuts
- Sugar- granulated sugar is used to sweeten these donuts
- Eggs- three whole eggs go in the donuts
- Buttermilk- helps to keep the donuts moist
- Cocoa powder- we’ll be using dark cocoa powder, or Dutch process cocoa, to make it extra chocolatey
- Coffee- just ½ cup will help to bring out the chocolate flavor more
- Butter- make sure it’s room temperature.
- Baking soda and baking powder- helps these donuts to rise
- Sea salt- help to bring out all the flavors
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips- for the chocolate glaze
- Coconut oil- used in the chocolate glaze
- Flaky sea salt- for sprinkling on the donuts (optional)
How to Make Baked Double Chocolate Donuts
For the Donuts
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Cream ¾ cup of butter and 2 cups of sugar together in a large bowl.
Mix in 3 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla in next.
Then add in 1 ¼ cups of buttermilk and combine.
In a medium bowl sift 1 ¾ cups of flour, ¾ cup cocoa powder, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 ½ teaspoon of baking powder and ¼ teaspoon of baking soda together.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and and mix until fully combined. Lastly, mix in ½ cup of hot coffee.
Transfer the batter to a piping bag fitted with a large circular tip. (This will make getting the batter into the donut pan a lot easier).
Grease a donut pan. Pipe the donut batter into the donut pan, ¾ of the way full.
Bake the donuts for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the centers.
Let them cool for a few minutes in the pan and then on a cooling rack until cool enough to handle.
For the Chocolate Glaze:
Melt 14 oz. of semi sweet chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.
Dip each donut into the melted chocolate and sprinkle with flaky salt salt. Let the chocolate harden and the serve! (Letting them chill in the fridge for a few minutes speeds this part up).
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Ingredients
For the Chocolate Donuts
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ¾ cup Dutch process cocoa powder
- 1 ¼ cup buttermilk
- ¾ cup softened, unsalted butter (1.5 sticks)
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup brewed coffee
For the Chocolate Glaze
- 14 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Instructions
For the Donuts
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream ¾ cup of butter and 2 cups of sugar together in a large bowl.
- Mix in 3 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla in next.
- Then add in 1 ¼ cups of buttermilk and combine.
- In a medium bowl sift 1 ¾ cups of flour, ¾ cup cocoa powder, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 ½ teaspoon of baking powder and ¼ teaspoon of baking soda together.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and and mix until fully combined. Lastly, mix in ½ cup of hot coffee.
- Transfer the batter to a piping bag fitted with a large circular tip. (This will make getting the batter into the donut pan a lot easier).
- Grease a donut pan. Pipe the donut batter into the donut pan, ¾ of the way full.
- Bake the donuts for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the centers.
- Let them cool for a few minutes in the pan and then on a cooling rack until cool enough to handle.
For the Chocolate Glaze
- Melt 14 oz. of semi sweet chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.
- Dip each donut into the melted chocolate and sprinkle with flaky salt salt. Let the chocolate harden and the serve! (Letting them chill in the fridge for a few minutes speeds this part up).
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