Glazed Baked Chocolate Donuts
If you love chocolate donuts, but are looking for a slightly healthier recipe, you really need to try these!
Servings: 18
Equipment
- donut pans- I used mini.
- small and medium sized bowls for mixing
Ingredients
Donuts
- ½ cup whole wheat pastry flour you really can use any type of whole wheat flour you like, but I prefer whole wheat pastry for these donuts.
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour I like to have the blend of all-purpose and the whole wheat. If you prefer, you can do 100% whole wheat. You can even do 100% white flour if that is what you are into.
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder I love to use Hershey's special dark
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- dash salt It only takes just a pinch in this recipe.
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar you can also use brown sugar if you like. I would imagine you could use coconut sugar too. Just make sure the sweetener is a granular.
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons canola oil or olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
Ganache Glaze
- ½ cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Spray your muffin pans with pan release or butter and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, and granulated sugar.
- In a medium-sized bowl, add the egg, canola oil, buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix well.
- Then combine the wet and dry. Make sure you only mix to combine. You do not want to overmix these!
- Spoon into your donut pans and move to the oven.
- These will bake quickly. I have found 8 minutes is just about perfect. Do not overbake these. They will dry out quickly with the whole wheat flour.
- Remove from the oven and allow them to cool for a few minutes in the pan.
- Gently tip onto your wire rack and the donuts should fall out. You might have to bang it gently to get all of them to fall out.
- While they are cooling, it is time for the ganache. Heat the heavy cream in the microwave for about 15-20 seconds, until it is very hot.
- Pour over the chocolate chips and let this sit for about a minute. Then mix gently. If you need to, return the bowl to the microwave and heat for about 20-30 seconds. Mix and repeat if needed.
- Dip each of your donuts one by one into the glaze, then return to the cooling rack.
- That is it! They are done.
- Now, sit back and enjoy. You deserve it!