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A homemade donut dipped in a bowl of chocolate glaze.

Chocolate Glazed Donuts

Pillowy donuts topped with silky chocolate glaze? Say less. You can't stop the audible ‘Mmm’ when you bite into these chocolate glazed donuts.
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Prep Time: 7 minutes
Servings: 12 donuts
Calories: 73kcal

Ingredients

Donuts

  • 1 cup milk, divided
  • 1 1/2 tbsp dry active yeast
  • 4 tbsp butter, melted
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour + a little extra, as needed
  • Oil for frying

Chocolate Glaze

  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Heavy cream as needed *can use milk or water instead

Instructions

Donuts

  • Warm the cup of milk in the microwave until about 100° F. Pour half of the milk into the bowl of a stand mixer, along with the yeast and 1 tsp of sugar.
  • Stir to combine and allow the mixture to sit for 5 minutes. At 5 minutes, the mixture should be frothy and bubbly.
  • Once the mixture is frothy, add the remaining milk, melted butter, granulated sugar, salt and 2 cups of flour.
  • Knead until fully combined.
  • Slowly add in the remaining 1/4-1/2 cup until the dough cleans the side of the bowl, is tacky to your finger but doesn’t stick if pulled away quickly.
  • Knead for an additional 5-7 minutes.
  • Leave the dough in the bowl and cover with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise for 1 hour.
  • Once the dough has doubled in size, turn onto a lightly floured surface.
  • Gently press the dough out into a rectangle and then use a donut cutter to cut your donuts out of the dough or use a pizza cutter to make bar donuts. Cut the leftover dough into small portions for bite sized donuts.
  • Cover with plastic wrap or a cloth and allow to rise for an additional 30-45 minutes.
  • Pour 2-3 inches of oil in the bottom of your pan. Heat the oil until 350°.
  • Fry the donuts at 350° for about 1 minute on each side or until golden brown on each side. Do not overcrowd the pan.
  • When they are golden brown, let the donuts rest on a cookie cooling rack that is paced inside of a cookie sheet.
  • Repeat with remaining dough.

Chocolate Glaze

  • To make the chocolate icing, cream together the butter, powdered sugar and cocoa powder, adding the milk or cream slowly to help the butter and dry ingredients come together.
  • Once smooth, add in the vanilla extract.
  • Microwave the icing until warm and thin.
  • While the donuts are still warm dip each donut into the icing, rotating to cover the donut in the chocolate glaze.
  • Allow the chocolate glaze to set up on a cookie cooling rack.
  • Enjoy!
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Nutrition

Calories: 73kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 98mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin C: 0.002mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.4mg