Recipe

How to Make Chocolate Donuts with a Bit of Heat

By Olivia Hasse at Boston University

You can hardly ever go wrong when making doughnuts; pretty much everyone is obsessed with them. Ever since gourmet donuts became a huge food trend, people have been trying new flavors and textures to bring to the traditional donut. I’ve seen really beautiful donuts, crazy, over-the-top, delicious donuts, and more. But what I wanted to try was to bring some heat to a traditionally sweet donut.

Recipe adapted from Live Well Bake Often. 

Baked Chocolate Donuts

  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 8 minutes
  • Total Time: 28 minutes
  • Servings: 8
  • Medium
Ingredients
  • 1 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 1/2 cup Buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
  • 1 Large egg
  • 2 tablespoon Butter (melted)
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 350°F.

Step 2

Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.

Photo by Olivia Hasse

Step 3

In a separate bowl, mix together the buttermilk, sugar, egg, butter, and vanilla.

Step 4

Mix the wet and dry ingredients together

Step 5

Pour the batter into the greased donut pan, filling about 3/4 of the way.

#SpoonTip: I found it easier to put the batter into a plastic bag, cut the corner, and squeeze the batter into the pan.

photo by Olivia Hasse

Step 6

Bake for 8 minutes, or until you can stick a toothpick in a donut and it comes out clean.

Cayenne Pepper Glaze

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Servings: About 8 glazed doughnuts
  • Easy
Ingredients
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 tablespoon milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Step 1

Mix together all the ingredients in a bowl. Use as much cayenne pepper as you like, depending on how spicy you want it to be. I suggest adding it little by little, and tasting as you go.

Photo by Olivia Hasse

Step 2

Dip each donut in the glaze, and let sit until the glaze hardens.

Photo by Olivia Lord

Step 3

Enjoy every bit of this spicy and chocolate-y heaven.

Photo by Olivia Hasse

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