An easy recipe for Baked Chocolate Donuts with an easy Cherry Glaze. Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a special holiday treat.
Love donuts? Check out all of my other donut recipes, including this Cake Donut Recipe or Baked Coconut Donuts.
Today, some food bloggers and I are all posting some great Valentine’s Day treats to bring awareness to this fundraiser as well as pediatric cancer. I really thought about making some new cookies like I did last year (since the fundraiser is with Cookies for Cancer) but I couldn’t get the idea of baked chocolate donuts out of my head.
And I knew they needed a pretty pink glaze, perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Donuts are my thing. I love them so much. And I really do like baked donuts (even though I don’t make them nearly enough). But I didn’t want to make chocolate donuts that just tasted like chocolate cupcakes in donut form. I wanted them a little more dense – like a fried cake donut is. I wanted them to have plenty of chocolate flavor.
These baked chocolate donuts took a little testing, but I really liked what I ended up with. I do have to warn you that these donuts aren’t quite as sturdy as their lighter cupcake-like cousins, but they are a lot tastier, so that makes up for their ultra-tenderness, right? The texture is great, the flavor is great, and I really loved that maraschino cherry glaze.
Here are a few tips for the perfect baked chocolate donuts:
- Let them cool in the pan for a bit. This is when it would come in handy to have more than one donut pan. I only have one, so it took some time to wait for them to cool before being able to take them out and make the second half, but it’s still doable. But if you try to take them out too soon, they will just fall apart.
- I usually like to just dip the tops fo the donuts in the glaze, that that will not work with these donuts. I just took a spoonful of the glaze and drizzled it over the tops of the donuts.
- The longer these sit, the less they will break apart.
I think these Baked Chocolate Donuts with Cherry Glaze belong on everyone’s Valentine’s Day baking list!
More Baked Donut Recipes
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Baked Chocolate Donuts with Cherry Glaze
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 12 donuts 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Description
An easy recipe for Baked Chocolate Donuts with an easy Cherry Glaze. Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a special holiday treat.
Ingredients
Chocolate Donuts:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
Cherry Glaze:
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice (from the jar of maraschino cherries)
- 4 maraschino cherries, very finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon cherry extract
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Generously spray a donut pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda and salt.
In another bowl, whisk together the sour cream, melted butter, vegetable oil and egg.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. The batter will be very thick – more like a dough than a batter.
Transfer the batter to a ziplock bag. Cut the corner off and pipe the mixture into the donut pan, filling each about 1/2 full.
Bake for about 8 minutes, until a tester inserted comes out clean. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan. (You may need to gently run a knife around the edges, but the donuts should come out fairly easy.)
Let the donuts cool completely on a wire rack.
To make the glaze, whisk the powdered sugar and cherry juice together until smooth. Mix in the chopped cherries and the cherry extract.
To glaze the donuts, spoon the glaze over the tops of the donuts and allow the glaze to run down the sides. Add sprinkles, if desired.
Recipe Notes:
The donuts are a bit tender and will crumble if you handle them too much. They are too tender to dip into the glaze (they will fall apart!) so just spoon the glaze over the tops. They will firm up a bit the longer they sit.
Nutrition information provided as an estimate only. Various brands and products can change the counts.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 donut
- Calories: 262
- Sugar: 28 g
- Sodium: 104 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 38 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
Keywords: baked chocolate donuts, cherry glaze
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