Triple Chocolate Donuts with Sprinkles

Triple chocolate doughnuts with sprinkles, oh yes my friends! Don't they look good with that warm runny chocolate dripping over them?

I recently bought a doughnut pan, well actually I bought two. I just couldn't resist. I love doughnuts, but I am not keen on deep-frying food, so baked doughnuts seemed like just the thing.

Silicone Doughnut Pan

The first doughnut pan I bought was a mini doughnut pan from Lakeland. The first time I used it was a bit disastrous. I had some left over cake mixture and decided to make some mini doughnuts in it.

The doughnut pan was silicone so I thought I wouldn't need to grease it. How wrong was I? I couldn't get them out. So I gave up in disgust! I'll go back to it, but next time I'll use some cake release spray.


Silicone. Pah! 

Ha, I've just noticed that although I went for the American spelling of donuts for my chocolatey treats, I'm actually thinking in a very English way as I write this. I'm surprised I didn't go for dough rings.

Full Size Donut Pan

Anyway, I also bought a full size doughnut pan and decided to give it a try. This time I sprayed the tray with cake release spray (see I do learn) and it was a very wise move.

The recipe was inspired by a recipe for Chocolate Banana Bread I'd pinned a while back that looked yummy and I decided to use that as my starting point.  I changed it from cup measures to metric, played about with the quantities and some of the ingredients and voila, the most indulgent chocolate chip doughnuts with a chocolate glaze and sprinkles. Perfect first time.

Vegan Donuts

I made these doughnuts vegan so Graham could enjoy them and they were lush, but you could equally replace the flax egg with a large free range egg if you wanted to.

Cooper was hovering about as I made these doughnuts, but I was in a fight against time to have them made before the winter Scottish sun dipped for the day, so I didn't let him help, however I did let him try the first doughnut.

As you can see, it was a messy business, but he really enjoyed them as everyone did who tried them. This is going to be my go-to chocolate doughnut recipe.

Graham really enjoyed these doughnuts and is hoping I will make them again soon. I hope you will try them again soon. Just remember to use that cake release spray!

Yield: 16 large donutsAuthor: Jacqueline Meldrum

Triple Chocolate Vegan Donuts with Sprinkles

An easy recipe for dairy and egg free baked donuts. Rich with the flavour of chocolate and topped with melted chocolate and sprinkles.

prep time: 20 MINScook time: 25 MINStotal time: 45 mins

ingredients

• 220g plain flour
• 30g cocoa powder
• 200g caster sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• a pinch of salt
• 2 flax eggs
• 110g dairy free spread, melted and cooled
• 2 large ripe bananas
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 150g dark chocolate chips

instructions

1. Mix up your flax eggs. Each flax egg is 1 tbsp of freshly ground flax seeds (linseeds) with 3 tbsp of water. You need two for this recipe. Mix together and pop in the fridge to thicken.
2. Preheat the oven to 350f/180c/160c fan/gas mark 4 and spray your donut pan with cake release spray.
3. Sieve the dry ingredients together in a bowl and gently mixed together.
4. Mash the banana and mix in the melted spread, vanilla extract and flax eggs.
5. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients with a spatula, then fold in the chocolate chips.
6. Pour some of the mixture into each ring of the donut pan, only filling to just a little less than ¾ full. Bake for 7 or 8 minutes until a skewer comes out mostly clean. Remember that chocolate cake benefits from being slightly under cooked. You will have to do the donuts in three batches unless you have more trays.
7. When the donuts have cooled a little slide out of the pan and cool on a rack.
8. Once the donuts are cool, melt some dark chocolate and spoon some over each donut, then top with sprinkles.
9. Enjoy!

notes

Calories and nutrition are for one plain donut before melted chocolate and sprinkles are added.

calories
207

fat (grams)
7.8

sat. fat (grams)
2.8

carbs (grams)
34.6

protein (grams)
2.7

sugar (grams)
19.7

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If you like these vegan doughnuts you might also like my Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.