Baked Chocolate Doughnuts with Glazed with Chocolate
Chocolate doughnut that are baked in the oven and then topped with a satiny chocolate glaze and sprinkles.
Equipment
- three inch doughnut pans
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
- 1½ cups granulated sugar (250g)
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- 1 egg white, at room temperature
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1½ cups all purpose flour (186g)
- 1½ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 6 tbsp. buttermilk
For Chocolate Glaze:
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 4 tbsp. butter
- 1¼ cups sifted powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp. light corn syrup
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup colored sprinkles
Instructions
For the Baked Chocolate Doughnuts:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray enough doughnut pans to make 24 three inch doughnuts with baking spray.
- With an electric mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat until combined.
- Add the chocolate, and mix to combine.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt, into a small bowl.
- Add half the flour to the sugar/eggs/chocolate and mix. Then add the buttermilk, and mix. And, then add the rest of the flour, and mix.
- Add ⅔ cup of boiling water, and mix.
- Using a measuring cup, fill up the doughnut tins. Bake ten minutes, or until the doughnuts bounce back when pressed. Cool for five minutes on a wire rack and then unmold and glaze. Then sprinkle with sprinkles.
For Chocolate Glaze:
- In a three quart saucepan melt the chocolate and butter on low heat. Remove the pot from the heat.
- Stir in the sugar. Then stir in the corn syrup and vanilla.
- Add more syrup, if necessary, to make a satiny glaze.
- Spoon the glaze on the doughnuts, and then shake on the sprinkles.
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