Chocolate Donuts with Blood Orange Glaze
February 8th, 2012
This morning at 11 Am I am on New Day Northwest showing you all how to put together a beautiful Valentines Day Breakfast.
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the ones that get the most excited about this “holiday” are the kids.
Mine are totally obsessed.
I thought that for them to come down in the morning and have the whole family sit down for a special breakfast would delight the little girls, and maybe secretly delight my husband.
I mean, come on- it’s pretty cute, right?
Plus, we still have all of the normal after school activities and craziness here in the evening, so my husband and I will be lucky to have some quiet time after 8pm when the kids have (hopefully) crashed. So this Valentines Day breakfast is kind of a guaranteed time for us all to be together that day.
You can learn more about the crafts I created here in this NDNW segment, which I will post here later today.
But one of the stars of this breakfast is the baked donuts. Donuts, traditionally something that are a really special treat are made easy and much healthier by baking them! These seriously take about 15 minutes start to finish and are totally moist and delicious!
These dark chocolate donuts are finished with a gorgeous blood orange glaze that takes advantage of the beautiful citrus fruit that is in season right now. These little gems are what inspired this whole Breakfast idea and most of the colors.
More of the recipes featured in this segment will be featured later this week, but include banana donuts with chocolate glaze, heart shaped bacon and egg cups, pink smoothies, and homemade hot chocolate!
Chocolate Donuts with Blood Orange Glaze, makes 12 donuts
1 1/2 cups flour
½ cup dark cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
3 Tbs butter. Melted
Blood Orange Glaze
2 Tbs Butter, Melted
2 Tbs corn syrup
3 cups powdered sugar
¼ cup blood orange juice
2 Tbs heavy Cream
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Spray a donut pan with cooking spray.
In a medium sized bowl combine all of the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, add the buttermilk, eggs and vanilla. Beat them together and add them to the dry ingredients.
Add the melted butter to the batter and mix until a batter has formed.
Spoon or pipe the batter into the donut pan and bake at 325 for 10 minutes.
Turn the donuts out onto a cooling rack and let the donuts cool.
While the donuts are baking, make the glaze by whisking everything together.
When the donuts have cooled, dip them into the glaze. (I triple dunked them!)
(first dip)
(third dip)
Eat immediately or let them rest while the blood orange glaze sets up.
Enjoy!
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Only 15 minutes to my own chocolate donuts?! Oh yes please!
1:29 am on February 8th, 2012
Oh my gosh! Baked donuts! I’ve wanted to learn how to make these for a long time. Can you make baked applesauce ones sometime?
3:36 am on February 8th, 2012
i’ve never been so happy to have a donut pan AND blood oranges in the house on the same day :)
5:08 am on February 8th, 2012
Heather! awesome!lol! I hope that you make them!
6:25 am on February 8th, 2012
Vicki- applesauce donuts sound divine! I absolutely will!
6:25 am on February 8th, 2012
Love the heart shaped Egg Cups! Did you already post a recipe for these?
6:43 am on February 8th, 2012
I am loving the glaze!
6:50 am on February 8th, 2012
No! the egg cups are coming!!
6:52 am on February 8th, 2012
Thanks Maria! That blood orange color was just too good to pass up!
6:52 am on February 8th, 2012
I have the exact same donut pan. I got it from King Arthur Flour ages ago. I think I only used it once, but this recipe makes me want to use it again. Sounds delicious!
7:56 am on February 8th, 2012
Oh my! Love the gorgeous blood orange colour and the fact that these are baked! I want one now!
8:52 am on February 8th, 2012
all i can say is, “omg”. This is my kind of celebrating. And these doughnuts -forget about it. I am going to try and recreate these, gluten free!
11:26 am on February 8th, 2012
This combo sounds delicious and the color is pretty – I like that they are baked too.
11:53 am on February 8th, 2012
Love the idea of writing on the plates, cant wait to see how you did this.
11:54 am on February 8th, 2012
Love that you triple-dunked these, Heather. A girl can never have too much blood orange!
2:47 pm on February 8th, 2012
or too much frosting. or too many donuts…..
4:17 pm on February 8th, 2012
I have to admit that I haven’t had a donut in years… this one is pulling at my heat though!! Positively scrumptious!!!
7:29 pm on February 8th, 2012
I love the idea of sharing Valentine’s Day with the kids and having a special breakfast or dinner with them. I hope to do that with my kids someday!
8:37 pm on February 8th, 2012
It is sad that i have never had chocolate doughnuts… It is sad that my family isn’t a big fan of chocolates. The color of the blood orange frosting is really beautiful. :)
10:56 pm on February 8th, 2012
Yes, please
12:48 am on February 9th, 2012
I watched your segment on NDNW and it was adorable. I can’t live without my Wilton Doughnut pan. I made apple fritters with whiskey glaze and felt minimal guilt over them. Now I must go for bust and make these chocolate ones :)
7:42 am on February 9th, 2012
Blood orange glaze?? Mmmmmm! These sound incredible!!
10:28 am on February 9th, 2012
These look fantastic, Heather! I’m making a grocery list right now! Did you use all-purpose or bread flour? Would either work?
10:40 am on February 9th, 2012
I just used good old fashioned AP flour!
3:04 pm on February 9th, 2012
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5:03 am on February 10th, 2012
I am so in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day breakfast! they chose the perfect person for the job :) Beautiful & very tasty I am sure!
5:42 am on February 10th, 2012
Thanks Marla :)
7:22 am on February 10th, 2012
Where do i find blood OJ?? These look amazing!
6:50 pm on February 10th, 2012
These look amazing…I don’t have a donut pan (though, I may have to get one if you’re going to make applesauce donuts too), think I could make them in mini-bundt pans?
4:55 am on February 11th, 2012
They sell it at my local grocery store and I know they have it at whole foods- but fresh blood oranges are available almost everywhere right now too. You could just go ahead and use fresh squeezed!
7:41 am on February 11th, 2012
yes! why not?!
7:41 am on February 11th, 2012
These are gorgeous! I came across them on Pinterest and they would be fabulous on the dessert table at my wedding. Since I know I couldn’t do them the day of the wedding, about how long do you think they stay fresh? Would 48 hours be pushing it? Thank you for your help and for sharing the beautiful photos and recipe!
11:49 am on February 11th, 2012
Funny you should ask- these seemed to stay pretty moist for several days- but I would certainly do a test well before hand to see if it meets your standards of moistness. You could also purchase plain cake donuts from a reputable bakery the day before and simply dip them in a homemade glaze?
Also- for an event as important as your wedding, if the blood orange glaze doesn’t reach the desired shade, than use a touch of food coloring! (I would mix one drop yellow to 2 drops neon pink)
12:34 pm on February 11th, 2012
Theses look amazing ,we will Definitly put these on a specials board .And if they go well will put on the menu.
Kind Regards
David Head
1:13 pm on February 12th, 2012
yumm!! what can i use instead of a doughnut pan?
2:53 pm on February 13th, 2012
Somebody else was going to try a mini bunt pan, and you could always try mini muffin pans?
2:56 pm on February 13th, 2012
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8:54 am on February 15th, 2012
I just finished a batch. For the person with the mini bundt pan, I did not have a donut pan, but I did have a mbp. I just filled it about 1/3 of the way and followed the baking instructions and they came out perfect.
For the glaze, I substituted the blood orange juice with 1 pint of pureed raspberries. I’d highly recommend that combination as well.
6:50 pm on February 19th, 2012
so glad to hear that this was so delicious! Love the raspberry idea!
7:01 am on February 20th, 2012
Excellent donuts, way harder to find the pan in this city then make the recipe :)
5:45 pm on February 29th, 2012
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6:44 pm on March 19th, 2012
I just made these for breakfast, and they are very tasty- my daughters are enjoying them right now! However, the texture didn’t turn out as I had anticipated. They are lighter, more cake/cupcake-like than what I normally expect from a cake donut. Is this how they are supposed to be? Or did I screw up my measuring somewhere?
7:04 am on March 23rd, 2012
They will surely be much lighter than a traditional fried cake donut, but mine were certainly denser than a cupcake, and they retained their moisture for days? Let me know if you make them again how they turn out?
8:40 am on March 24th, 2012
These look so amazing. I want to make them. Now. I dont have a donut pan though, would the batter hold up if i just piped it out?
6:25 pm on April 12th, 2012
Julie-I often throw it into a ziploc bag and snip the end off and pip it into the pan. BUt a spoon is not much less messy!
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12:36 pm on May 2nd, 2012
Can you make the donuts the day before then glaze them the next day?
8:52 am on September 3rd, 2012
yes! Unusually, these donuts stay moist for days!
10:43 am on September 3rd, 2012
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12:52 pm on September 25th, 2012
What’s a good substitute for corn syrup? Does simple syrup work just as well? Showing my baking ignorance here! Yummy! Making these for New Years!
5:59 am on December 30th, 2012
Use simple syrup veeeery sparingly. a few drops at a time- the corn syrup give the glaze that smooth lustrous look- but you could thin it with a touch of simple syrup.
1:26 pm on December 30th, 2012
I absolutely loved these! I didn’t have any oranges on hand so I changed it to a coconut glaze. Amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
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3:43 am on January 24th, 2013
I’ve been wanting to make these doughnuts for forever. I featured them on my blog! http://blog.shopdirtylaundry.com/posts/2013/2/26/123-too-cute-tuesday.html >> ENJOY.
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