Chocolate-Coconut Cake Donuts
Tanya
Photo by Alpha Smoot
- Serves
- 6
These deep chocolate cakes have a subtle coconut nuttiness from the coconut milk and oil (rather than from shredded coconut). This makes for both a tender, melting texture and a lovely flavor. You'll need a cake donut pan to make these, though you could make "donut muffins" instead.
Ingredients
For the donuts:
- Non-stick cooking spray, or coconut oil, or butter, for greasing donut pan
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 large egg
- 3 tablespoon coconut oil, melted if solid
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the icing:
- 2 cup confectioner's (powdered) sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoon coconut milk
- Sprinkles or chopped nuts, as desired
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Donuts are something I rarely treat myself to. So few places make ones worthy of the calories, yet the homemade variety often seems daunting. With these Chocolate Coconut Cake Donuts, one can wake up on a Sunday morning and, with no more effort than afforded waffles, have donuts in 45 minutes. I like that you only need two mixing bowls and a wooden spoon to make these up. You will likely need way more coconut milk for the frosting; I used about 1/4 cup. The coconut flavor is subtle—a little kiss of the tropics followed by a warm hug of the chocolate.
Directions
Instructions
- Step 1
Heat oven to 325° F and grease the donut pan.
- Step 2
Set a sieve over a large bowl and add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt (I always sift when using cocoa powder). Sift, then fold together for even distribution. In a smaller bowl, whisk the coconut milk, sugar, egg, coconut oil, and vanilla until smooth. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and mix with a whisk or wooden spoon until everything is blended. The batter will be thick.
- Step 3
Spoon batter into a piping bag (or into a large resealable plastic bag with the corner cut off) and pipe into the greased doughnut pan, making sure to not overfill. Alternatively, you can spoon the batter into the pan.
- Step 4
Bake for 13 minutes, until a tester comes out clean.
- Step 5
Cool the doughnuts in the pan for 3 minutes, and then carefully turn the doughnuts onto a rack to finish cooling.
- Step 6
Once the donuts are completely cooled, make the glaze. In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar and 2 tablespoons coconut milk. If you’d like a thinner glaze, add more milk, and if too thin, add more icing sugar.
- Step 7
Place a rack over a baking sheet to catch any dripping (though there won’t be much). Once by one, dip the cooled donuts into the glaze and allow excess to drip back into the bowl. Place on the rack and top with sprinkles. Allow the donuts to sit for an hour or two to let the glaze dry before eating.