Cinnamon Sugar Chocolate Cake Donuts

I received not one, not two, but FOUR donut pans for my birthday! [Am I the only one who goes back and forth on what looks like the right way to spell doughnut?]

Why make six when you can make 24! [I’m totally taking two back, who am I kidding?]

So first order of the donut pan? Chocolate cake donuts of course.

With chocolate glaze.

And cinnamon and sugar for fun.

I took a Jenna’s recipe for glazed cake donuts and added some cocoa powder. Then I took MamaPea’s chocolate glaze and dipped the final creations into it after shoveling spoonfuls of it in my mouth. The cinnamon and sugar was an afterthought because I had a bowl of it sitting around [everyone does that, right?]. The result was a really light, fluffy donut. It really wasn’t as dense and cakey as I would have normally liked. They weren’t bad; just not what I was looking for. After eating a couple, I tossed the rest in the fridge to let the glaze harden and to see if that firmed up the cake. Yep. By the next day, they were much more what I was looking for. Thank you refrigerator.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 heaping tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup coconut milk + splash of vinegar (or buttermilk)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  • cinnamon and sugar

Preparation

  1. Preheat oven to 350º and grease the donut pan.
  2. In the bowl of a mixer, combine the melted butter, milk, vanilla, and egg.
  3. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt before adding it to the wet mixture.
  4. Mix until just combined.
  5. If you’re fancy and have a pastry bag, use that, otherwise pour the batter into a plastic bag, cut the tip, and pipe into the donut pan.
  6. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until the tops of the donuts spring back when you poke them.
  7. While they cool, melt the chocolate chips with the coconut oil. I used the ol’ microwave method.
  8. When the donuts are cool enough to touch, dip them in the glaze and then into the cinnamon sugar.
  9. Place them in the fridge for the glaze to harden, or eat right away. Who am I to stop you?

 



7 thoughts on “Cinnamon Sugar Chocolate Cake Donuts”

  • I love the magic of the refrigerator! It’s saved many of my baked goods. And makes stew/chili extra awesome. Oh yeaaah. I’m not a huge donut fan, but yours are so pretty! Think I’ll save my dessert splurging for that black rice pudding you mentioned, though. I’m on the lookout for a recipe.

    • I’ve been on the look out for something like it, too. I never keep matcha in the house, though. This same restaurant that has the dessert is also where I chose the green that I painted my living room (the owner gave me the color code and everything). I think it’s safe to say that I’m smitten with that place.

      • Ooo, with matcha in it? You may have inspired yet another new food for me–I’ve never used matcha powder in anything. I’m assuming Whole Foods sells it somewhere? And haha, seriously cracking me up that you painted a room to match a restaurant 😀

        • I’m almost positive Whole Foods has it. I’m pretty sure I saw it when I was wandering down the tea aisle one day. They may even have it in bulk. You never know with them. And for hilarity’s sake, this is what my living room looked like right after the paint job–http://www.flickr.com/photos/_hoot/4108614512/in/set-72157619220764604. I had just moved in so thus the lack of…stuff. http://jadeportland.com/ That’s the restaurant. If you sit on the home page long enough, it’ll rotate to a photo of the inside of the restaurant and you’ll see the green wall.

      • Ooo, I love that color! Totally worth ripping off the restaurant for. I used to have a forest-y green room with almost that color accents–I miss it. And of course I had to check out the menu while I was on the site, and I realllly want the grilled eggplant, it sounds amazing! Following by black rice pudding.

        • I have had the grilled eggplant and it is absolutely delicious! I haven’t ever had anything bad from there. It’s just totally out of my way, and in a neighborhood on the other side of town

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