Do you know what a chocolate chocolate is? Where I’m from it is a chocolate cake donut with chocolate icing and it is my favorite donut on the face of the earth! Sometimes on Sunday mornings Mr. Picky Eater will announce he is going to the donut shop for a special treat. He doesn’t even ask me what I want anymore because he knows it is the chocolate chocolate – that’s how you ask for it at the donut shops too! Rocket will take a dozen donut holes and MPE likes the glazed twists. I have wanted a donut pan for some time now and finally got one. Right away, I made these donuts and they were delicious! I added cocoa powder to make the recipe on the cardboard wrapper around the pan to make them chocolate and made my chocolate ganache recipe that I got from my friend Joan at Chocolate chocolate and more blog – put sprinkles on a few and we dug in! These make giant donuts so next time I won’t fill the pan so much but other than that, I was thrilled with the outcome.
Before we get to the recipe, I want to show you a couple of repurpose projects the hubs and I have done lately. First, we picked up this card table and two chairs at a yard sale and then two more chairs to make this set. We painted them all and used a shower curtain to cover the chair seats and table top. What do you think? The instructions are over on Hometalk.
Next is the most controversial post I have ever made. Some of the folks on Hometalk (Top Girl calls them Flamers) called me a heretic and pretty much a communist for violating the sanctity of these cameras but let me preface the picture by saying this: I have 12 of these exact cameras that are in my collection of vintage cameras, they no longer worked and were pretty scratched up, I chose pink because those are the colors I had, and I was not trying to make any kind of statement by painting them……..I also do not consider myself an artist, just creative and this creation looks pretty good to me. One person said it looked like cheap plastic now – ha! Those cameras ARE made of cheap plastic so I guess they look exactly like what they are!! Check it out for youself here.
Now on with the recipe!
Chocolate Chocolate Donuts!
Ingredients:
2 Cups of all-purpose flour
¾ Cups sugar
½ Cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¾ Cup plus 2 Tablespoons milk
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons of melted butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 325F.
Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and whisk them up.
Using a mixer add the eggs, milk, butter and vanilla until well blended.
Spray your donut pan with non stick spray.
Get a gallon size plastic bag and put the (rather thick) batter inside.
While the first batch is baking, you can rest it like this:
Snip off the corner and pipe in the batter to 2/3 full – I’m going to do ½ full next time.
Put on a cookie sheet and place in oven for about 20 minutes, depending on your oven….Keep checking until a toothpick comes out clean.
Take them out and let them set a few minutes before you flip them out.
Let them cool completely, make this fabulous and very easy ganache recipe – for which you will get the cake and Devonshire cream recipe as well – go ahead and admire that cake of Joan’s, as I do……probably more than I should!
Let them set up and enjoy!
By filling 2/3 full I got 10 donuts.
Store in the fridge because of the cream in the ganache.
Chocolate – Chocolate donuts are my wife’s favorite too and I never have to ask her what kind she wants! 🙂 We have been married 33 years and that is the way it is 🙂
Kelli, your donuts look delicious, I have not tried making donuts before but I might have to try your recipe!
Michael
There ya go- smart women think alike! Make the donuts, she will love them!
The doughnuts look wonderful and I really like the card table and chairs.
Lillian
Thank you!!
I only have a miniature donut pan, and it takes forever to make the donuts.so I don’t use it very often. These chocolate/chocolate donuts look scrumptious, though, so I might have to invest in a larger pan! Love the table and chairs. We redid our kitchen stools by covering them with a tablecloth! They came really well, too!
These look sinful and naughty… and I want about 2 dozen of them 🙂
Well – they ARE. Eclipsed only by what I am making this morning! Wait till you see that!
I really need to get a doughnut maker, these look delicious! =)
Pinned!
Thank you!
Seriously good looking doughnuts. Now I want some. 🙂
Thank you!
Dang. I was in a resale shop on Friday and I passed up a doughnut pan. I may just have to go back on Monday to see if it’s still there. Your chocolate chocolates looks wonderful. Like what you did with the table and chairs too!
I am a hung jury on the cameras. I understand that you have so many and they don’t work and are scratched. So turning three of them into art (quite adorable art, by the way) seems like a good plan and certainly your right. But I also understand the folks that feel it is messing with possible collectors’ items. After all, even an old coin loses value if you polish it. The patina adds to its collectibility. Folks that collect want things in original condition as much as possible. But the bottom line is that there is no need to be rude and if folks were flaming on you, just delete the comments and block them. Also your right!
Thanks Stacy! I only wish I had the ability to delete comments and block them, but on Hometalk you don’t have that ability so it stays. I met the nicest woman though….Serena the Thrifting Diva……she said they follow like a pack of people who don’t like anything painted. They made all the nasty comments one day – they even talked back and forth to each other in the comments…………..then, the next day, crickets. Serena said they moved on to the next target. She has been one a couple of times.
I hope you get that donut pan – I’ve been having a blast making different kind of treats with it!
Now these are decadent, I am really loving the flurry of photos 😀
And drooling too!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks CCU! I’ve been practicing and sometimes all the planets align – pictures turn out well! 🙂 I thought you would like the chocolate…..:)
Thanks for the recipe, I just copied it. I have 3 different styles of donut pans from Wilton. I bought them a couple of years ago marked down after season. The heart shaped one and candy cane one always gets eaten first and the regular round is last. Yumm Chocolate.
I think you will love the recipe! If you have a printer – you can click “print friendly” green bar at the bottom and then delete pictures etc… it will print out the recipe for you. For next time!
Yum! love all your projects 🙂
Thank you!
Your donuts look like they came from a shop…great job! I think you are very creative with your projects and your card table and chairs are so cute. I was brought up that if you can’t say something nice just don’t say anything at all. Some people don’t seem to have manners anymore and don’t think about the hurt their words can cause.
Thank you Karen! I’m very proud of them – and yes, you are correct, most people do not have manners anymore, so sad. Thanks for all the compliments – they really made my day!!
Thanks for the recipe. I was looking for one that I could use with my donut pan than I received for Christmas from my daughter. I have my mom’s old fashioned donut recipe but I always loved the chocolate ones. Oh and the Chocolate, Chocolate and more is a great site too.
You are going to love ’em! I make them smaller now because those in the picture are HUGE! Thanks so much for dropping by and please come by again – Yep, I love Joan on CCandmore!
It looks sinfully delicious!!! It will be a good addition to my recipe collection. Thank you for this wonderful creation!!
Thank you for dropping by and please come again!
This looks divine n I would really like to try it!! I love anything and Everything to do with chocolate!!
I’ll need a donut pan for which I don’t at the moment, though I have a small donut maker machine, n was wondering if I could use this machine for the above recipe?
I would certainly try it – it could work out well and if not? Well, you will have a very tasty mess! 🙂 Thanks so much for coming by and please come again!
Hi thr i mst say i never ever made my donuts in the oven b4…ive tried ur recipe nd wow its so easy nd taste super awesum thnx…im lukin for a easy recipe for chicken pies pls pastry to pls thnx alot mwah:-*.
Hi! Thanks for dropping by – I’m so glad you tried the donuts and loved them – they are delicious, aren’t they? I do not personally have a chicken pot pie recipe BUT I am searching my blogger friend’s for one and when I find it – I will post the link here to you!
Just a hint to make your doughnuts taste more chocolatey, add a small amount of instant coffee to your batter. I too like to can and was intrigued by your creamsicle jelly.
Thank you for the tip! I will try that next time – try that jelly because you will love it!! Thank you for dropping by and please come again.
Those doughnuts look amazing…all shiny and rich! I love that it doesn’t have much fat…dangerous..lol! I need to get a doughnut pan! Great post Kelli!
Thank you Lillian – and yes you DO need a donut pan!!