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Chocolate Glazed Baked Mini Donuts

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Just, just, just…

Breathe.  And eat baked mini donuts.

Breathe mini donuts? Yes.

That’s what the voice inside my head is saying these days.  That was when there were still mini donuts left.  That was like a year ago.  It was fun while it lasted.

Chocolate glazed baked mini donuts with sprinkles on a plate.

Dessert has always been high on my list of loves, and dessert for breakfast is even higher. So this weekend, when I heard a girl in the restaurant bathroom tell her friends that she hadn’t had dessert in forever, and then went on to specify that actually she hadn’t had dessert in two years, TWO YEARS, I vomited a little bit in my mouth.  Then I punched her in the face.  Air-punched her.  From the stall where she couldn’t see me.

Girl, don’t lie.  You probably ate 87 of these for breakfast and that’s why I don’t have any left.

Dessert, breakfast.  Breakfast, dessert.

Mini Donut. Get. One. Now.

Chocolate glazed baked mini donuts with sprinkles on a plate.
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Chocolate Glazed Baked Mini Donuts


Description

These chocolate glazed baked mini donuts are easy to make and so cute and yummy! Yellow cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.


Ingredients

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  • 1 cup flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch of cinnamon
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, divided
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup applesauce (I subbed Greek yogurt)
  • 3 tablespoons milk, divided
  • 4 tablespoons butter, divided
  • 1/3 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Mix all dry ingredients, using 1/4 cup brown sugar and setting the rest aside.
  2. Whisk 1 tablespoon milk, 2 tablespoons melted butter, applesauce, and egg. Stir into dry mixture.
  3. Pour batter into a gallon-sized plastic bag and cut the corner off. Pipe the batter into a greased mini-donut pan, filling each donut space about 1/2 full (for me, this was about 24 mini donuts). Bake for about 7 minutes. Remove from oven and take each donut out of the pan.
  4. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter with 1/4 cup brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in chocolate chips until melted. Bring to a boil and boil for about 2 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon milk and bring back to a boil. Add powdered sugar, using the last tablespoon of milk to help thin out the frosting if needed. Keep over low heat (otherwise it will start to crystallize) and dunk each mini donut into the frosting. Frosting should set almost immediately, so sprinkle each donut right away.
  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 15 mins
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American

Keywords: chocolate glazed mini donuts, mini donuts, chocolate donut recipe

If you are the girl from the restaurant…

I’d like to extend a peace offering in the form of a cakey pillow of chocolate-frosted sprinklings.

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64 Comments

  1. Pinch of Yum Logo

    She’s a liar. It’s not possible to go that long without dessert… Right? I can barely wait until i finish a meal and most of the time I want it as soon as I wake up. That is why I will be making these donuts ASAP. Thank you for feeding my addiction 😉

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    I feel like she must be terribly unhappy. I mean, what kind of person goes two years without eating a dessert? As for baked doughnuts, yes (and now I’m half tempted to make doughnuts, right now.)

  3. Pinch of Yum Logo

    2 years? I am proud if I can go 2 days!

    I don’t have a mini donut pan – do you think a mini muffin pan would work as long as I am okay with having muffin-shaped donuts? Hmm…I like the thought of that!

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      Maybe! They’d be different, obviously, but I think it could still work! I mean, usually cake and chocolate works. 🙂

  4. Pinch of Yum Logo

    Haha. I love this post. The conversations you can hear in the bathroom between friends when they don’t know someone else is in there… my my. I once got to hear about how to make a “ghetto” (their words, not mine) version of a feminine hygiene product. Then they panicked when they realized they weren’t alone and ran out.

    Anyway, the donuts look super! And the glaze with the sprinkles is like… fairytale land. Or something super like fairytale land.

  5. Pinch of Yum Logo

    I would’ve air punched that girl too….who goes two years without dessert? Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, Mondays? I mean honestly.

    I’m checking out my local Home Goods for a mini-donut pan this weekend. Between this recipe and your mini gingerbread donuts…somethings gotta give.

  6. Pinch of Yum Logo

    Ok, I need a mini donut pan, it’s going on the wish list. And I totally would’ve decked that girl and told her to get out and enjoy life! You had such restraint 🙂

  7. Pinch of Yum Logo

    No dessert in 2 years? Besides thinking that must be impossible, I’m incredibly sad for her 🙁 She needs one of these asap! And so do I even though I had dessert last night 😀

  8. Pinch of Yum Logo

    Poor girl, no dessert in 2 years? I want dessert BEFORE every meal! Dessert then breakfast, dessert then lunch, dessert then snack, dessert then dinner, dessert then midnight snack…

  9. Pinch of Yum Logo

    Wow, these look delicious!!

    Just found your site via pinterest, and absolutely love it! The recipes & photos are fantastic! Your asian chicken salad (which looks delicious, btw) was the pin that I clicked over from, and I think there’s a problem with the link. When you click on the “read more” button on that recipe, it sends you to an error page (“404 Page Not Found”).

    Anyway, I apologize for leaving this sort of message on this post, but I initially tried sending a message through your contact page, and it wouldn’t let me submit my comment (it kept saying the code was incorrect, even though I was typing the correct code… repeatedly.) Have you heard of this being a problem for anyone else?

    Anyway, your site & recipes look amazing! I’m excited to check out your recipe archives. Thanks for sharing!

    1. Pinch of Yum Logo

      Gahh. Thanks Kristen. We got the contact page fixed last night and I think I fixed the post this morning. Hopefully it works now – let me know if you have any more troubles and thanks for the nice comment! 🙂

  10. Pinch of Yum Logo

    I love these healthy colorful donuts. My daughter really loves sprinkles and we don’t let something as colorful as these treats pass without recreating them in our kitchen. A must try!

  11. Pinch of Yum Logo

    How does one live without having any dessert? There’s just no point in existing!

    Btw, awesome-fantastic-amazing donuts. I’ll have to eat 100 of these, and I’ll tell the world about it instead of claiming that I haven’t had dessert in 10 years 🙂

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    I can’t even imagine two years without dessert. No one does that. Seriously. It can’t exist. Love these donuts! I think I could eat them for two years…straight. That one’s totally possible.

  13. Pinch of Yum Logo

    Lindsay, these donuts couldn’t be more perfect! And I love that they are super mini and covered in SPRINKLES. I have been searching for a perfect thick chocolate frosting for donuts… I think I’ve found it! Thank you for sharing 🙂