Baked Cake Doughnuts with Chocolate Glaze

When I saw these beautiful doughnuts over at PreventionRd I totally drooled. Then, like just about everything she makes, I saw that they were also low in calories.

I can’t lie. I suspected black magic.

I was more than pleasantly surprised at just how delicious these doughnuts turned out! The cake doughnut was just that – cakey, delicious and very filling. The glaze was chocolatey and went perfectly with the doughnuts. Recipes like this make me oh so happy that I own a doughnut pan. The dough came together in a matter of minutes and breakfast was ready in under 30 minutes. I should point out though, I only got 12 doughnuts out of this recipe. Maybe I have a larger doughnut pan, I’m not quite sure. I added another 50 calories on per doughnut to account for this when calculating calories. Still. I ate two freaking delicious doughnuts for 300 calories. I’m not complaining.

Baked Cake Donuts

Doughnuts:
2 cups cake flour, sifted (of 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour + 1/4 cup cornstarch)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup fat-free milk
1 Tbsp white vinegar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Chocolate Glaze:
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tsp corn syrup
1 Tbsp canola oil
1 tsp water

Directions:

Mix milk with vinegar. Set aside to turn into buttermilk!

Preheat your oven to 425 F. Spray your donut pan with non-stick spray.

In a medium-sized mixing bowl bowl, whisk together the melted butter, buttermilk, and beaten eggs. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the cake flour (or flour + cornstarch), sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir together until just combined.

Carefully spoon the batter into about 2/3 full. Bake for 7-8 minutes, or until the tops of the donuts spring back when lightly touched.

Allow to cool in the pan for a couple minutes. Remove the donuts onto a rack to finish cooling before you glaze them.

For the glaze, microwave all the ingredients together in a microwave safe bowl on 50% power for about 1 minute, stirring in-between, until melted. Add additional water (by the half teaspoon), if needed to thin. Dip one half of each doughnut into the chocolate and allow to dry on a drying rack. Yield: 18 doughnuts with glaze

Nutrition Information (per doughnut): 106 calories; 2.7 g. fat; 24 mg. cholesterol; 194 mg. sodium; 18.7 g. carbohydrate; 0.3 g. fiber; 2.5 g. protein

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