Mini Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    35mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    12
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    158
based on 12 ratings

A mini doughnut pan is a game-changer. These chocolate cake doughnuts are nothing fancy: just a quick and delicious entry-level doughnut that comes out soft and sweet and a little crumbly.

recipe updated Feb 16, 2022

Ingredients

  • Granulated sugar icon
    Granulated sugar
    50 g
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    160 g
  • Cocoa powder icon
    Cocoa powder
    20 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    ½ teaspoon
  • Baking soda icon
    Baking soda
    ½ teaspoon
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    1
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons
  • Sour cream icon
    Sour cream
    115 g
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    80 g
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    2 tablespoons
  • Powdered sugar icon
    Powdered sugar
    125 g
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    1 ½ tablespoons

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Drop Scale
  • kCook icon Microwave
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Mini doughnut pan
  • kCook icon Small glass bowl
  • kCook icon Small bowl

Step preview

  1. Weigh all the ingredients before starting cooking
  2. Pre-heat oven - 174°C
  3. Grease a mini doughnut pan with a little butter
  4. Add granulated sugar, all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt to a clean large mixing bowl
  5. Whisk together
  6. Add egg, vanilla extract, sour cream and milk to the dry ingredients
  7. Mix well
  8. Add unsalted butter to a clean small glass bowl
  9. Melt in microwave
  10. Mix melted butter into batter until combined
  11. Transfer batter to mini doughnut pan
  12. Bake - 10 min
  13. Transfer onto cooling rack
  14. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract to a clean small bowl
  15. Mix in milk until smooth
  16. Glaze the doughnuts
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