Raise your hand if you love chocolate. Are you all raising your hands? Maybe both hands? I definitely am! Chocolate is pretty hard to beat, and chocolaty goodness in the morning... even better! I'm definitely not a morning person (I'm more of a roll over, grunt, and hit snooze sort of person), so any reason to make getting out of bed at 5:30am and trudging to work in the cold a little easier is always good. And I tell you what, triple chocolate doughnuts and a cup of hot coffee are a pretty tasty reason!
Triple Chocolate Doughnuts
Makes 6-8 doughnuts
For the doughnuts:
2 tbsp. (30 grams) butter, melted
½ cup milk
¼ cup chocolate chips
1 egg
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. baking soda
⅓ cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp. baking cocoa
1 cup all purpose flour
For the glaze:
2 ½ cups powdered sugar
¼ milk
2 tbsp. chocolate chips
1 tbsp. baking cocoa
For the garnish:
Chocolate sprinkles
Start by preheating your oven to 350*F (175*C) and greasing your doughnut pan(s). In a bowl, whisk together your dry ingredients (baking powder, baking soda, granulated sugar, baking cocoa, and flour). In a large bowl, combine your melted butter, milk, and chocolate chips, and microwave for about 20-30 seconds, or until the milk mixture is hot and the chips are melting. Whisk until the chocolate is completely melted and all lumps are gone. Add the egg, whisk until smooth, and then whisk in the dry ingredients until combined. Pour (or pipe) your batter into your doughnut pan, filling each cup about ¾ of the way full. Bake for 9-10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the doughnuts comes out clean.
To make the glaze, whisk together your powdered sugar and milk in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the mixture gets warm, add the chocolate chips and baking cocoa, and continue heating and stirring until the chocolate is completely melted. For those of you wondering why we're heating the glaze and not just whisking together milk and powdered sugar, it's because heating it will make the glaze harden harden once it cools.
Dip the cooled doughnuts in the hot glaze, and immediately sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.
Happy baking!
Glaze recipe adapted from Deliciously Yum
liztiptopshape says
Yuummm!!! I love a good doughnut!
The Simple, Sweet Life says
They're pretty hard to resist, aren't they? 😉
The Blonde Chef says
These look incredible! Baked chocolate doughnuts are one of my favorite desserts! Can't wait to try these out myself 🙂
The Simple, Sweet Life says
It's hard to beat a classic like chocolate doughnuts. 🙂 Hope you like them!
Lexi @ Sempre Dolce says
Oh my goodness, these doughnuts look so good!! I am definitely a chocoholic, btw...
The Simple, Sweet Life says
I'm a total chocoholic too 😉
eglover0616 says
These look oh so delicious! Thank you for sharing at The Wednesday Round Up and we hope to see you back next week!!
The Simple, Sweet Life says
So glad you like them! Thanks for hosting each week! 🙂
Lillians Matblogg says
Looks amazing!!
The Simple, Sweet Life says
Thank you! 🙂
bj says
i'm so hungry for one of these, i could just spit. they look sooo good.
The Simple, Sweet Life says
I'd share, but my husband ate them all! 😉
Stephanie says
How delicious!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
saynotsweetanne says
Oh wow, this looks just delicious! Soo much chocolate 🙂
The Simple, Sweet Life says
You can never have too much chocolate, right? 🙂
Jhuls says
I guess I'm gonna get my donutpan right away. These look amazing!!! <3
The Simple, Sweet Life says
Do it! For the price and the use I get out of my doughnut pans, it's easily one of the best kitchen additions I've made recently! 🙂
Jennifer Dawn says
I have never tried making my own donuts. You've made it looks so easy and delicious! I'm featuring this post at our weekly link party! http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2014/11/a-little-bird-told-me-link-party-116.html
The Simple, Sweet Life says
Thank you for the sweet feature! And seriously, baked doughnuts are so easy to make it feels like you're cheating at baking! 😉