Easy Baked Donut Recipe: Chocolate Cake Donut

An easy baked donut recipe? Yes please! When those donuts are chocolate cake donuts….even better! Grab a donut pan and give this recipe a try. Triple fudge donuts will be all that you crave on a weekend morning. You can even whip up a batch and enjoy then all week. Don’t worry…we won’t tell!

Easy Baked Donut Recipe

Baked Triple Fudge Chocolate Cake Donuts

Ingredients:

Donuts:

• 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/4 brown sugar, packed
• 2/3 cup baking cocoa
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup mini (or regular) chocolate chips
• Donut pans

Icing:

• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

Donuts:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 standard donut pans (click here to purchase) and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients (flour, brown sugar, baking cocoa, baking powder, and salt). Then set aside. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine all of the wet ingredients (eggs, milk, vanilla, and vegetable oil). Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Add chocolate chips and mix. Then, using a spoon, distribute the batter between the greased donut pans (they should be about 3/4 of the way full). Bake 15 minutes. Remove from the oven to cool. After about a minute of cooling, carefully loosen the donuts from the pan and move to a cooling rack.

Icing:

Melt the chocolate chips and milk together in the microwave for 30-45 seconds. Then remove from the microwave and stir until all of the chips are melted. Spread over the tops of the donuts.

Enjoy this easy baked donut recipe with your family! You will love the taste of a triple fudge chocolate cake donut. I mean who wouldn’t right? I am off to dig into a few of these. Y’all enjoy!

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Ingredients

Donuts

• 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/4 brown sugar packed
• 2/3 cup baking cocoa
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup mini or regular chocolate chips
• Donut pans

Icing

• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup milk

Instructions

Donuts

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 standard donut pans (click here to purchase) and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients (flour, brown sugar, baking cocoa, baking powder, and salt). Then set aside. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine all of the wet ingredients (eggs, milk, vanilla, and vegetable oil). Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Add chocolate chips and mix. Then, using a spoon, distribute the batter between the greased donut pans (they should be about 3/4 of the way full). Bake 15 minutes. Remove from the oven to cool. After about a minute of cooling, carefully loosen the donuts from the pan and move to a cooling rack.

Icing

• Melt the chocolate chips and milk together in the microwave for 30-45 seconds. Then remove from the microwave and stir until all of the chips are melted. Spread over the tops of the donuts.

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