Chocolate Hazelnut–Filled Doughnuts

Name: Chocolate Hazelnut–Filled Doughnuts
Yield: Makes about 10–12, 3 ″ doughnuts
Ingredients: 1 recipe Basic Yeast Doughnuts; ½ cup sugar; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 3 tablespoons heavy cream; 1½ cups chocolate hazelnut spread; All-purpose flour, for dusting; Canola oil, for frying

Preparation info

Makes about
10–12
, 3 ″ doughnuts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Doughnut Cookbook

By Williams Sonoma

Published 2016

About

The classic creamy mix of cocoa, milk, sugar, and hazelnuts is hard to resist after your first bite of these cinnamon sugar–dusted gems. Squeeze the pastry bag gently so the filling evenly floods the doughnut’s heart.

Ingredients

1 recipe Basic Yeast Doughnuts
3 tablespoons heavy cream
1½ cups

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Make the yeast doughnut dough and let rise until doubled in size, about 1 hour. Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk the cream until soft peaks form. Gently stir in the chocolate hazelnut spread until combined. Cover and refrigerate the filling until ready to use.

In a bowl, stir together the sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.

Punch down the dough, turn it out onto a well-floured work surfac