Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

Name: Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 3 Tbsps butter, melted; 79 milliliters buttermilk; 237 milliliters unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa; 4 larges eggs; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters sugar; 1 liters vegetable oil for frying

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts is a vegetarian morn meal. This recipe serves 16. One serving contains 265 calories, 5g of protein, and 12g of fat. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have baking powder, flour, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, buttermilk, and melted butter to blend. Stir into dry ingredients until well blended. Chill until cold, at least 1 hour or up to 3 hours.

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Baking Powder

Buttermilk

Butter

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Scrape dough onto a generously floured surface. With floured hands, pat dough out to about 1/2 inch thick. With a 3-inch doughnut cutter, cut out doughnuts. Pat together scraps of dough and cut again. (Alternately, shape dough into ropes about 5 inches long and 1/2 inch thick; join rope ends to form doughnuts.)

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Dough

Nuts

Place doughnuts on a well-floured baking sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Meanwhile, fill an electric deep-fryer to the fill line or pour about 4 inches of oil into a 5- to 6-quart pan; heat to 375 (see "Fry Right," below).

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Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Place one doughnut at a time onto a wide spatula and gently slide into oil, frying up to three at a time. Cook, turning once, until puffy and cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes total (to check timing, cut first one to test). With a slotted spoon, transfer doughnuts to paper towels to drain. Repeat to fry remaining doughnuts.

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Cooking Oil

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Slotted Spoon

Paper Towels

Spatula

When cool enough to handle, dip the top half of each doughnut in warm mocha glaze and place on a plate.

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Dip

Let stand until glaze is set, about 5 minutes.

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Glaze

Mocha glaze. In a heatproof bowl, combine 6 ounces chopped semisweet chocolate, 1/2 cup whipping cream, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 teaspoons corn syrup, and 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder. Bring a few inches of water to a boil in a pan; remove from heat.

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Instant Espresso