Double Chocolate Frosted Donuts
Truly the best double chocolate frosted donut recipe that is light & airy. The sticky chocolate glaze make these the most delicious fryed donuts.
Doughnuts or Donuts either way you spell it, they are one of the most popular desserts in the world. This week I made these absolutely delicious double chocolate frosted donuts.
When I was doing my research on fried Donut recipes and which Donut was the best, yeast or cake donuts? It was very 50/50 on this subject. So, I did a bit of research on krispy kreme Donuts as they are very well known for their deliciousness, and although they do make yeast free cake donuts most Krispy Kreme doughnut varieties are made of the same yeast-raised dough recipe. So that helped me to decide to make my double chocolate frosted donuts recipe today. I do think I’ll try making a fried yeast free cake Donut recipe just to test for myself which one I think is the best. To cook your donuts you will need to use a pot of oil or the safer option a deep fryer. Deep fryers are the far better option as they automatically maintain the cooking temperature of the oil which helps you get consistant results every time.
There's also a lot of safety features built in including frying baskets, lids, and handles that don't heat up with the oil. Use the basket to lower the donut rings instead of dropping them in the pot or oil. This is a lot safer, as splash's from hot oil can cause severe burns.
Donut History
Here's a little bit of Donut history for you. The humble Donut originally arrived with the Dutch when they settled in New York or New Amsterdam and were called olykoeks or "oily cakes”. Because olykoeks are a delicious and popular dessert, they're now sold worldwide. But for obvious reasons, I can see why they changed the name to Donut as oily cake doesn’t sound like a nice dessert to eat.
There are no Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts near me. So when I want delicious and super easy to make Donuts, I have to make them myself from scratch. I made so many homemade Donuts over the past few weeks testing new recipes and topping ideas, I probably could of started my own donut shop with a Donut delivery service to boot lol.
Equipment Needed To Make Donuts
You don’t need a Donut maker or a special Donut cutter to make this type of fried Donut. You can use two different size cutters. If you don’t have a small round cutter for the centers, you can use a cap from a drinks bottle, it’s the perfect size for the Donut holes. But if you are looking to buy a donut cutter this one on Amazon is a great price and has great reviews too.
Doughnuts or Donuts either way you spell it, they are one of the most popular desserts in the world. This week I made these absolutely delicious double chocolate frosted donuts.
When I was doing my research on fried Donut recipes and which Donut was the best, yeast or cake donuts? It was very 50/50 on this subject. So, I did a bit of research on krispy kreme Donuts as they are very well known for their deliciousness, and although they do make yeast free cake donuts most Krispy Kreme doughnut varieties are made of the same yeast-raised dough recipe. So that helped me to decide to make my double chocolate frosted donuts recipe today. I do think I’ll try making a fried yeast free cake Donut recipe just to test for myself which one I think is the best. To cook your donuts you will need to use a pot of oil or the safer option a deep fryer. Deep fryers are the far better option as they automatically maintain the cooking temperature of the oil which helps you get consistant results every time.
There's also a lot of safety features built in including frying baskets, lids, and handles that don't heat up with the oil. Use the basket to lower the donut rings instead of dropping them in the pot or oil. This is a lot safer, as splash's from hot oil can cause severe burns.
Donut History
Here's a little bit of Donut history for you. The humble Donut originally arrived with the Dutch when they settled in New York or New Amsterdam and were called olykoeks or "oily cakes”. Because olykoeks are a delicious and popular dessert, they're now sold worldwide. But for obvious reasons, I can see why they changed the name to Donut as oily cake doesn’t sound like a nice dessert to eat.
There are no Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts near me. So when I want delicious and super easy to make Donuts, I have to make them myself from scratch. I made so many homemade Donuts over the past few weeks testing new recipes and topping ideas, I probably could of started my own donut shop with a Donut delivery service to boot lol.
Equipment Needed To Make Donuts
You don’t need a Donut maker or a special Donut cutter to make this type of fried Donut. You can use two different size cutters. If you don’t have a small round cutter for the centers, you can use a cap from a drinks bottle, it’s the perfect size for the Donut holes. But if you are looking to buy a donut cutter this one on Amazon is a great price and has great reviews too.
Double Chocolate Frosted Donuts
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 150 Milliliters Warm milk not to hot
- 1 tbsp Dried yeast or 1 sachet
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Caster sugar
- 300 g Plain flour all-purpose flour
- Oil to fry
For the chocolate topping
- 250 g Powered sugar
- 45 g Cocoa powder
- ½ tsp Vanilla essence
- 4-5 tbsp Milk
- 90 g White cooking chocolate
Instructions
- In a Pyrex bowl add in 2 eggs and whisk well.2 Eggs
- Add in1 tablespoon of butter and 150mls of warm milk, Whisk until the butter has melted.1 tbsp Butter, 150 Milliliters Warm milk
- Next add in 1 tablespoon of dried yeast and stir in.1 tbsp Dried yeast
- Now add in the vanilla essence, sea salt and caster sugar and whisk together.1 tsp Vanilla essence, 1/8 tsp Salt, 2 tbsp Caster sugar
- Slowly add in the plain flour, adding it in a bit at a time.300 g Plain flour
- Whisk into a soft dough.
- You will need to rub a little flour to your hands and add a small amount of flour to a clean surface.
- Knead the dough for a minute and turn it into a dough ball.
- Return your dough ball back into the Pyrex bowl and cover for about 20 minutes.
- The dough will become bigger in size in this time. To test if your dough is ready poke a few times lightly with your finger, if the dough tries to ping back its ready to be rolled.
- Flour a clean surface and rolling pin and roll out your dough so its about 1cm thick, if you don’t have a donut cutter use two different size cutters. (you can use a cap from a drinks bottle, it’s the perfect size for the donut holes)
- Heat your deep fryer oil to 170 degrees Celsius.
- While the oil is heating up leave your donuts to raise again.
- When the oil is heated up lower in your donuts carefully into the hot oil.Oil to fry
- Do your donuts in batches of two or three at a time depending on the size of you fryer.
- The donuts take about 1 minute each side, when one side is done turn over and fry the other side.
- When golden brown remove the donuts from the oil and place onto a plate with a couple of squares of kitchen roll, this will help soak up any excess oil.
- Place donuts onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
To make the donut frosting
- While your donuts are cooling it’s the perfect time to make your double chocolate topping. First add in the powdered sugar, sifted cocoa powder, vanilla essence and 4-5 tablespoons of milk into a Pyrex bowl and simply mix your ingredients together really well.250 g Powered sugar, 45 g Cocoa powder, ½ tsp Vanilla essence, 4-5 tbsp Milk
- Now to melt your white chocolate, add a small amount of boiling water to a saucepan and put on to your hob on a low heat, top with a glass bowl and brake your chocolate into chucks and melt it by stirring slowly. When the white chocolate is melted remove from the heat.90 g White cooking chocolate
How to frost the donuts
- Your donuts should be cool now and ready for you to top. First dip your donuts into the chocolate frosting and put them back onto the wire rack. When all your chocolate frosted donuts are covered grab a teaspoon and your bowl of melted white cholate and drizzle slowly over the top of all your donuts.
- That’s it your double chocolate donuts are done! all that’s left is to wait a while for the toppings to set and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
If you love chocolate donuts your probably a Dunkin donut lover. Most Dunkin donut lovers don’t leave the store without their hit of rich Dunkin coffee, Americans like a lot of us love coffee and donuts. So to get that real donut experience at home try real Dunkin ground coffee to go with this chocolate frosted donut recipe. They’re now available for fast home delivery on Amazon Prime.
If you are looking for more donut inspiration why not check out my Baked Donut recipe. Its a little healthier than deep fried and tastes so good.