Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩. Chocolate Donuts or doughnuts are up next on In the Kitchen with Matt. I am your host Matt Taylor, today I will show you how to make Rest of our flour mixture. Okay and then we mix it together until it forms a nice cake batter like this.

Try this recipe for chocolate cake donuts with icing to scratch that itch. 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. You can have Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩

It's of For the doughnuts.
You need 2 of eggs (substitute with avocado, banana, boiled sweet potato).
You need 1/8 cup of Butter (crisco/sunflower margarine/vegetable oil).
You need 4-6 teaspoons of Granulated sugar.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional).
It's 1 squeeze of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup.
You need 1/3 cup of + 2 tbsp plain flour.
You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare of For the toppings (use a good combination of any of these).
Prepare of Mini chocolate chips (dark/white chocolate).
Prepare of Mini marshmallows.
It's of Mini pretzels.
Prepare of Rainbow sprinkles.
Prepare of Heart sprinkles.
It's of Galaxy sprinkles.
It's of Chocolate curls/shavings.
Prepare of Extra chocolate (to drizzle).
It's of Mixed chopped nuts (peanuts, almonds, pistachios, pecans).
Prepare of caramel (to drizzle).
Prepare 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).
You need of Whipped cream/cool whip (optional).

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Chocolate Cake Doughnuts 🍩 step by step

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 🖤.

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