Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩. Haven't you always wanted to make donuts at home? Try this recipe for chocolate cake donuts with icing to scratch that itch. Dark chocolate doughnuts — baked, not fried — ready to shake in sugar, spread with icing, or enjoy just as they are.

Chocolate Cake Donuts are different than traditional Donuts but equally as delicious. Learn how to make Chocolate Cake Donuts without yeast and with no Donut Tin needed. Make a batch of chocolate cake doughnuts even better when you drizzle them with a mocha glaze and top with coconut, chocolate, nuts or sugary sprinkles. You can cook Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩

It's of For the doughnuts.
Prepare 2 of eggs (substitute with avocado, banana, boiled sweet potato).
Prepare 1/8 cup of Butter (crisco/sunflower margarine/vegetable oil).
Prepare 4-6 teaspoons of Granulated sugar.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional).
You need 1 squeeze of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup.
You need 1/3 cup of + 2 tbsp plain flour.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare of For the toppings (use a good combination of any of these).
It's of Mini chocolate chips (dark/white chocolate).
You need of Mini marshmallows.
You need of Mini pretzels.
It's of Rainbow sprinkles.
You need of Heart sprinkles.
Prepare of Galaxy sprinkles.
Prepare of Chocolate curls/shavings.
It's of Extra chocolate (to drizzle).
Prepare of Mixed chopped nuts (peanuts, almonds, pistachios, pecans).
Prepare of caramel (to drizzle).
You need of freeze-dried/fresh berries (raspberry, blueberry, strawberry).
It's of Graham cracker crumbs.
Prepare of Oreo crumbs.
It's of Mini Mars/Snickers/Galaxy/Twix (cut into pieces).
It's of Whipped cream/cool whip (optional).

Place one doughnut at a time onto a wide spatula and gently slide into oil, frying up to three at a time. Cook, turning once, until puffy and cooked. The big challenge when creating chocolate doughnuts is cramming enough rich chocolate flavour into a dough that still fries up with that appealingly light, springy crumb that´s the trademark of a good cake doughnut. The cake doughnuts aren't overly sweet, and the glaze adds that shot of doughnut sweetness.

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 step by step

Cream the butter (crisco/sunflower margarine/vegetable oil) with the sugar and then, add 1 egg (avocado, banana or boiled sweet potato) at a time and continue to whisk till everything comes together..
Squeeze a good amount Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in. The syrup can be substituted with melted chocolate bars. Just make sure your syrup or melted bar is 100% pure dark chocolate. Add the vanilla and whisk this for another minute..
Add the flour slowly and gradually along with the baking powder. This step is entirely optional but if you want to, you can add mixed nuts and/or chocolate chips at this point to give the doughnut batter an extra crunch/flavor. Your batter should be silky and smooth like this..
Pour into the greased pan/doughnut moulds and bake these for 3 minutes (if you're using the microwave). Adjust your temperature settings to your liking if you're either baking this in an electric oven or steaming it in a steamer. Cool them in room temperature the sooner they step out of the oven/steamer. Cut them with the doughnut cutter if you've baked it in a regular square pan. Drizzle extra chocolate syrup/melted chocolate on the top and it's done. Well... almost..
Be creative and use any of the toppings mentioned on the recipe and give the doughnuts your own kind of makeover. Doughnuts with topping(s) stand out better than those that don't. Double or triple the recipe if you're sharing these with family or friends 🖤.

Chocolate Fudge Cake Doughnuts will satisfy any chocolate craving with luscious frosting and a smooth, tender, yet slightly chewy doughnut. These cake doughnuts are super easy (for doughnuts) and yes - fried. I actually like baked doughnuts, but if I am going to make a donut and eat a donut, I'm going to fry that sucker. Loosely based off a recipe from Vegetarian Times. Whole wheat pastry can be used, but the doughnuts will be a tad more dense.