Cocoa Baked Donuts
- Ready In:
- 31mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 batch
- Serves:
- 1
ingredients
- 5 cups flour, plus more
- flour, for kneading
- 1 2⁄3 cups 2% low-fat milk, warm
- 3⁄4 cup sugar, plus more
- sugar, for dipping
- 1⁄4 ounce instant yeast
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled PLUS
- 3 tablespoons butter (set aside)
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 5 tablespoons dutch process cocoa
directions
- Whisk together the egg, milk, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, yeast and cocoa. Slowly stir the milk mixture into the dry ingredients until a dough forms.
- Flour a counter top and knead, adding more flour a tablespoon at a time as needed, until a very slightly sticky, elastic ball of dough forms. Place in a buttered bowl, cover with a towel and allow to rise, about 1 hour or until it has doubled in bulk.
- Punch down, and roll it out on a floured surface until it is about 1/2 to 2/3 of an inch thick. If you have a doughnut cutter, use that to cut out the doughnuts. If not, use a small cutter to make doughnut "holes" or improvise using a drinking glass or large cookie cutters and smaller cutters to make the holes. You could also make round, biscuit sized doughnuts with no holes.
- Place the doughnuts on 2 greased cookie sheets, cover with a towel and allow to rise an additional hour. Preheat the oven to 375°. Melt the additional 3 tablespoons of butter. Pour some (granulated) sugar on a plate. Bake the doughnuts exactly 6 minutes, then remove to a wire rack.
- Brush each doughnut with melted butter and dip in sugar. Serve hot, although they are still pretty good at room temperature.
- Store up to 1 day (but eating them immediately is preferred) in a air tight container.
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