Chocolate Orange Doughnut Recipe (Baked)

 

[schema type=”recipe” name=”Chocolate Orange Doughnut Recipe (Baked)” author=”Rachel Howard” pubdate=”2017-02-26″ image=”http://www.sundaybaking.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/chocolate-orange-baked-doughnut-3.jpg” description=”A delicious double chocolate baked doughnut with a hint of orange. ” prepmins=”10″ cookmins=”6″ yield=”28″ calories=”91″ fatcount=”4″ sugarcount=”5″ ]

If you want a quick, homemade and great tasting sweet snack…these chocolate orange baked doughnuts are perfect.

I whipped them up while the roast was in the oven so they were ready to eat as soon as dinner had gone down. And baked doughnuts are a lot easier to make than fried doughnuts and a little better for you too!

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• 190g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 50g cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 60ml fresh orange juice
• 1 egg
• 100g light brown sugar
• 115g natural greek yoghurt
• 30g unsalted butter – melted
• Zest of one orange

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Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a doughnut pan
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa powder, salt and nutmeg
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the orange juice, egg, sugar, yoghurt and melted butter
• Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix well
• Fold in the orange zest
• Pipe or spoon the mixture into the tin (I found it easier to pipe it due to the consistency)
• Bake in the oven for 5 – 7 minutes
• Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then carefully take each doughnut out and leave to cool on a wire rack while you make the glaze

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• 100g chocolate chips (I used 70% cocoa)
• 30g butter
• 2 tsp golden syrup
• 2 tsp fresh orange juice

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Method:

• Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup in the microwave and mix well
• Stir in the orange juice
• Dip the doughnuts into the glaze
• Add chocolate sprinkles

And that’s all there is to it! Thank you to Marsha’s baking addiction for the inspiration! These will definintely be made again from my kitchen. I’ll be interested to know how they keep too…..not that there will be many left over!

I only have a mini doughnut pan so the ones I made are pretty tiny, but you could also use a regular sized pan if you would prefer.  The nutritional information below is based on the miniature servings.