Baked Chocolate Cake Donuts
These baked chocolate cake donuts have a super soft texture and are incredible dipped in a rich chocolate ganache with lots of sprinkles on top!
Servings 15 donuts
Calories 269kcal
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake Donuts
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup 2% or skim milk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Chocolate Ganache
- 2 (4 oz) semisweet chocolate bars finely chopped
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Sprinkles for topping donuts
Instructions
Chocolate Cake Donuts
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 3 donut pans and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk oil, sugar, eggs, yogurt, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- In a separate medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Fold flour mixture into liquid mixture until batter is just combined.
- Scrape batter into a sealable bag and seal bag. Snip a corner off of the bag and pipe batter into prepared donut pan, filling each cavity about 3/4 full.
- Bake donuts at 350F 10-12 minutes until donuts spring back when lightly touched. Allow donuts to cool in pan 10 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack.
Chocolate Ganache
- Place chopped chocolate in a large bowl. Pour heavy cream into a small saucepan and heat over medium heat until steaming. Pour heavy cream over chocolate and whisk until chocolate is melted and evenly incorporated into cream.
- Allow ganache to cool 5 minutes then dip donuts in ganache and top with sprinkles. Enjoy!
Notes
Storing Instructions
Store donuts in an airtight container at room temperature up to 4 days. Un-glazed donuts may be frozen up to 2 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 donut | Calories: 269kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 4.1g | Fat: 13.1g | Saturated Fat: 5.7g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Potassium: 205mg | Fiber: 2.3g | Sugar: 22g | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 2mg