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April 15, 2013 By Emily 26 Comments

Dark Chocolate Donuts

Filed Under: breakfast, easy Tagged With: chocolate, coconut oil, dark chocolate, donut, quick, treat

 Delicious, miniature Dark Chocolate Donuts are baked not fried and are a sweet way to start your day.
Baked Miniature Dark Chocolate Donuts
When I found out that my SRC website this month was Adventures In All Things Food I was excited to go check out the archives and select something to make. After a quick browse of the categories, of course I decided to choose something sweet and as luck would have it there was a recipe for baked donuts. Oddly enough I just so happened to have borrowed my mother in laws donut pans last week!
I think maybe it was fate, because in my donut recipe searching I hadn’t really come across on that interested me, but when I saw these baked chocolate doughnuts with peanut butter icing, I knew I had to make some. I couldn’t decide what kind of topping I wanted, so I tried several. I melted a little chocolate with some milk and dipped some and sprinkled on a few sprinkles, others I sprinkled with shredded coconut. I even coated some in powdered sugar and I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we did, happy baking!

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Dark Chocolate Donuts

Prep 5 mins

Cook 12 mins

Total 17 mins

Author Emily

Yield 2 -2 1/2 dozen mini donuts

Ingredients

  • 3/4 c cake flour
  • 1/3 c super fine sugar
  • 1/4 c Dark Dutch processed cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 c milk
  • 2 Tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 egg, large
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 325º and prepare your donut pans with cooking spray, set aside.
  2. In a mixing bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon.
  3. In a small mixing bowl combine the milk, coconut oil, egg and vanilla extract.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
  5. Place the batter in a zip top bag and snip off one end, pipe the batter into the pan and bake for 10-12 minutes, until a tester comes out clean.
  6. Cool in the pan 5-10 minutes, coat with melted chocolate, sprinkles, powdered sugar or other desired toppings.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Chocolate Peanut Butter Donuts by Adventures In All Things Food

Courses breakfast, dessert

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Comments

  1. Lisa says

    April 15, 2013 at 4:25 am

    Oh my gosh, give me one of those doughnuts now!

    Reply
  2. Tash TheVelvetMoonBaker says

    April 15, 2013 at 9:28 am

    these look gorgeous I so need to get my hands on a doughnut pan

    Reply
  3. Andrea Kruse says

    April 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Yum! Your doughnuts turned out beautiful. Hope you enjoyed them and thanks for baking from my site. Have a great week!

    Reply
    • Emily Dicks says

      April 16, 2013 at 12:56 am

      Andrea thank you!

      Reply
  4. Jane Craske says

    April 15, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    Yummy! Thanks for the lovely pick and ESPECIALLY for the lovely blog that I got to stalk this month. I made your amazing Baked Pears.

    Reply
    • Emily Dicks says

      April 15, 2013 at 6:15 pm

      thank you so much Jane!

      Reply
  5. SeattleDee says

    April 15, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    These sound delicious, SO much better than any fried donuts. Sigh, I might need elastic waistbands after all.

    Reply
  6. Shiloh Barkley says

    April 15, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    Love these donuts!!! I like chocolate donuts more than chocolate cake. Isn’t that weird?

    Reply
    • Emily Dicks says

      April 15, 2013 at 6:15 pm

      I don’t like cake at all, so no it’s not weird to me and I loved them!

      Reply
  7. Jeanie says

    April 15, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    Pinned.

    Reply
  8. colleen says

    April 16, 2013 at 12:13 am

    I think you just convinced me to get donut pans. I’m totally sold on this recipe. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  9. Julie says

    April 16, 2013 at 1:05 am

    Yum, those donuts look good, Emily! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  10. Angela\'s Kitchen says

    April 16, 2013 at 2:01 am

    Need those donuts! Seriously, I bet they are amazing… and the photos are stunning! Thanks for sharing this SRC choice. Now to convert to gf so I can have them too… I must, must bake them. Good thing I have tomorrow off! 🙂

    Reply
  11. Miz Helen says

    April 15, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    Hi Emily,
    Your Dark Chocolate Donuts look amazing, yummy! Great cooking with you in Group B!
    Miz Helen

    Reply
  12. Amy CookingAdventures says

    April 16, 2013 at 3:10 am

    These look so amazing! I think I need to buy a donut pan!

    Reply
  13. Heather S says

    April 16, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    YUM! I just got a donut pan for my birthday and can’t wait to make a batch of donuts. Great SRC choice!

    Heather @ Join Us, Pull up a Chair

    Reply
  14. shelley c. says

    April 17, 2013 at 1:22 am

    What luck that you had the pans at just the right moment! And YUM – they look great! I bet you’ll be allowed to borrow them much more often… as long as you share these delicious treats when you return them! 🙂

    Reply
  15. Trisha says

    April 18, 2013 at 9:23 am

    You had me staring at the pic of that doughnut for longer than I’d like to admit 🙂 Stopping by from Group A!

    I’m hosting a giveaway on my blog. I’d love for you to stop by and be a part of it!!!
    http://www.myhobbielobbie.com/2013/04/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-and-giveaway.html

    Reply
  16. cooking with curls says

    April 18, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    Those look amazing, and I wish I had them right now!

    Reply
  17. Linda@With A Blast says

    April 18, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    Looks delicious! Love that you use coconut oil 🙂 Thank you for sharing at our ALL MY BLOGGY FRIENDS party !

    Reply
  18. Danielle Miller says

    April 18, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    I really need a donut pan!

    Reply
  19. Faye Davis says

    May 9, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    I want to try your amazing mini donuts!
    faye

    Reply
  20. Thrifty DIY Diva says

    May 20, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    I shared your amazing recipe in my National Donut Day Roundup!  Thank you so much!!

    Reply

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