Chocolate Donuts with Peppermint Chips
These chocolate donuts with peppermint chips are the perfect holiday treat. Soft, chocolaty cake donuts are topped with a sweet vanilla icing and peppermint baking chips, for a treat that's festive and delicious.
Servings: 12 Donuts
Ingredients
Chocolate Donuts
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup dark special cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ cup butter melted
- ⅛ cup avocado oil
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ cup mini chocolate chips
Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3-4+ tablespoons heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Andes peppermint baking chips, coarsely chopped, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 and spray (2) 6-count donut pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Chocolate Donuts
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, both sugars, baking powder, and salt together until combined.
- Next, add butter, oil, milk, vanilla, and eggs, and stir until combined.
- Add donut batter to a gallon size ziploc baggie or a piping bag. If using the baggie, cut off a small corner of the bag after filling
- Pipe the batter into the pan(s) and bake for 10 minutes, remove from the oven and let sit in the pan for a couple minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Icing
- In a medium bowl, add powdered sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla extract. Stir to combine. If additional milk is needed, do 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is obtained.
- Once the donuts have cooled completely, take one donut at a time and dip the top of each donut into the icing. Place back on the wire rack and then sprinkle with the coarsely chopped peppermint baking chips.
Notes
Tips
- Mix your donut batter until just combined to avoid dense, tough donuts.
- If you don't have a piping bag, snip a corner off a Ziploc bag to fill your donut pan wells easily.
- Your donuts should be set, but yield to a gentle press when they're ready to be removed. The heat from the pans will finish baking them as you let them cool.
- Your donuts should be fully cool before dipping them into the glaze to allow the glaze to begin to set immediately.