Baked chocolate dipped cake doughnuts
Feb. 7th, 2016 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlIt's been a shamefully long time since I've done a Sunday bake! Actually, I have baked, but I haven't posted about it. Not sure why, but I'm here to remedy that today. How do you feel about doughnuts? I, myself, am a doughnut gal rather than a donut gal (c'mon, really, those three little letters aren't that hard to type and doughnut is a perfect descriptor while donut is far, far too close to "do not" for my liking...).
I had a hankering for a chocolate dipped old fashioned doughnut. While these are baked and so you don't get that same delicious greasiness and crunch, I like to think that I'm not completely blowing a day by starting it out with a pastry instead of a sensible breakfast of an egg white omelet with quinoa and kale and chia seeds or whatever is trendy right now.
Oh boy, yum. I made a perfect dozen, which means I can't even nibble one to make sure they pass the taste test without giving myself away to my lucky, lucky coworkers.
The best thing about these is they are super duper easy to make. They come together with hardly any effort and bake fast. It probably took me as long to dip them as it did to bake them.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup buttermilk (or buttermilk substitute)
2 beaten eggs
2 TB melted coconut oil (can use butter or vegetable oil here)
Preheat oven to 425F. Grease two doughnut pans very liberally (I didn't and paid for it, which is 90% of the reason these got a chocolate dip - cover the mistakes) and set aside.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt together. Combine the wet ingredients, then add them to dry, mixing until just incorporated. Either spoon batter into the pans, filling each will a bit over halfway full, or put batter in pastry bag/zip-seal bag with one corner trimmed off and pipe into the pans to the same depth. Bake for 7-9 minutes.
Let cool in pan for a minute or two, then remove and let cool completely on rack. When cool, you can dip like I did (double boiler, melting chocolate), brush cool doughnuts with melted butter and dip in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar... Or eat them plain, but doughnuts out these pans aren't really that cute that way. ;)
I had a hankering for a chocolate dipped old fashioned doughnut. While these are baked and so you don't get that same delicious greasiness and crunch, I like to think that I'm not completely blowing a day by starting it out with a pastry instead of a sensible breakfast of an egg white omelet with quinoa and kale and chia seeds or whatever is trendy right now.
Oh boy, yum. I made a perfect dozen, which means I can't even nibble one to make sure they pass the taste test without giving myself away to my lucky, lucky coworkers.
The best thing about these is they are super duper easy to make. They come together with hardly any effort and bake fast. It probably took me as long to dip them as it did to bake them.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup buttermilk (or buttermilk substitute)
2 beaten eggs
2 TB melted coconut oil (can use butter or vegetable oil here)
Preheat oven to 425F. Grease two doughnut pans very liberally (I didn't and paid for it, which is 90% of the reason these got a chocolate dip - cover the mistakes) and set aside.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt together. Combine the wet ingredients, then add them to dry, mixing until just incorporated. Either spoon batter into the pans, filling each will a bit over halfway full, or put batter in pastry bag/zip-seal bag with one corner trimmed off and pipe into the pans to the same depth. Bake for 7-9 minutes.
Let cool in pan for a minute or two, then remove and let cool completely on rack. When cool, you can dip like I did (double boiler, melting chocolate), brush cool doughnuts with melted butter and dip in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar... Or eat them plain, but doughnuts out these pans aren't really that cute that way. ;)
