Name: Chocolate-Glazed Cake Doughnuts
Yield: Makes 10 Large Doughnuts and 16 Doughnut Holes
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tsp baking soda; ¼ cup/60 ml heavy cream; 1½ tbsp unsalted butter, cubed; 4 tbsp/55 g unsalted butter, cubed, at room temperature; 2 cups/340 g chopped dark chocolate, 60 to 70% cacao; 1 tbsp vanilla extract; 3 tbsp canola oil; 3 tbsp honey; 1½ cups/190 g all-purpose flour; 1¼ cups/150 g whole-wheat flour; ¼ cup/60 ml buttermilk; 5 tbsp/70 g cream cheese; Cacao nibs for sprinkling; ½ cup/60 g Powdered sugar; 1 tbsp maple syrup; 1 egg yolk; ⅛ tsp kosher salt; 1 egg; ¾ cup/100 g pastry flour; 1½ tsp baking powder; 5 tbsp/70 g brown sugar; 5 tbsp/65 g granulated sugar; Canola oil for frying; 1 tsp kosher salt

Preparation info

Makes
16
Large Doughnuts and Doughnut Holes

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Huckleberry

By Zoe Nathan

Published 2014

About

It took me a long time to figure out how to make a good cake doughnut—I’m almost embarrassed to say how long. I found the two most important things to be almost undermixing your batter and the addition of cream cheese.

During the winter we also make a spiced version of these. Simply add 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, ½ tsp cloves, and ¼ tsp ginger to the batter. When the doughnuts are done, coat them in a mixture of 2 cups/400