Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩. Our Moist Cake Coated With Rich & Silky Chocolate Can't Be Beat. The dough should be at room temperature before frying. Dip a metal pancake turner into the hot oil each time before using it to move or turn a doughnut.

Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. This Chocolate Cake Donuts recipe contains sour cream. This makes the Chocolate Donuts really soft because the acid in the sour cream tenderizes the gluten in the flour. You can have Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩

You need 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).
You need 4-6 teaspoons of Granulated sugar.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional).
Prepare 1 squeeze of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup.
It's 1/3 cup of + 2 tbsp plain flour.
Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
It's of For the toppings (use a good combination of any of these).
Prepare 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.
Prepare of Extra chocolate (to drizzle).
You need of Mixed chopped nuts (peanuts, almonds, pistachios, pecans).
You need 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).

You can also use Buttermilk or Yogurt. Use store bought or check out my recipes for Homemade Buttermilk,. Cake doughnuts will sink to the bottom of the oil, then cook for a bit before rising up. Place the doughnuts on the prepared cooling rack.

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 instructions

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 Cake Donuts with a Vanilla Glaze-rich chocolate flavor and dense texture, these are the perfect donuts to make a day ahead. I have a confession to make. I received it as a Christmas gift. Cake doughnuts are my weakness, but KK is the only place I used to get 'em from - they used to have a blueberry cake doughnut but discontinued it - now all they have are the sourcough cake doughnuts - I'd do catrwheels if they had chocolate cake doughnuts - but I think I'm better off snagging some from you when I come to visit NYC. This is the closest I have ever gotten to store bought donuts.