These Baked Chocolate Mocha Doughnuts are a chocolate donut enhanced with dark rich coffee and dipped in a sweet chocolate mocha glaze. Mocha donuts are a great way to enjoy a relaxing cup of hot coffee on a weekend morning!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Double Chocolate Mocha: these mocha donuts enhanced with coffee and are dipped in a chocolate mocha glaze.
Baked donuts: these donuts are baked, not fried, and are much lower in fat than a traditional donut.
Simple ingredients:
🥘 Ingredients
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🔪 Instructions
Make the donut batter
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and spray a donut baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together milk, mayonnaise, coffee, egg, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Fill each doughnut cavity ½ full with batter and bake 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool doughnuts in pan for 5 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.
Make the mocha glaze
- In a large bowl, mix together coffee, milk, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth and of dipping consistency. Add more powdered sugar or milk as needed.
- Dip top half of donut in glaze then sit back on cookie rack to allow to dry. Top with sprinkles if desired.
🥄 Equipment
🥫Storage
Room temperature or refrigerate: store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Freeze: store in an airtight freezer safe container up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Add ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder to the donuts for added flavor.
- Frost the tops of the donuts with cream cheese frosting or chocolate buttercream frosting instead of the glaze.
- Use fun pearl sprinkles to top the glaze.
💭 Tips
- Place a piece of parchment paper under that cooling rack to catch glaze drips from dipped donut.
- Use a pastry bag without the tip to pipe donut batter into the donut pan.
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve with a hot cup of coffee for morning brunch or as an afternoon snack with a hot cup of tea.
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📖 Recipe
Baked Chocolate Mocha Doughnuts
Equipment
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Ingredients
Donut batter
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 3 heaping tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons black coffee
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Glaze ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons black coffee
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1⅔ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Make the donut batter
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and spray a donut baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together milk, mayonnaise, coffee, egg, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Fill each doughnut cavity ½ full with batter and bake 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool doughnuts in pan for 5 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.
Make the mocha glaze
- In a large bowl, mix together coffee, milk, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth and of dipping consistency. Add more powdered sugar or milk as needed.
- Dip top half of donut in glaze then sit back on cooling rack to allow to dry.
- Top with sprinkles if desired.
Tandy Willingham
The 2 Tabledpoons of coffee in the donut recipe, is that brewed or instant or grounds?
Stephanie
Well those look tasty! YUM! I do have a friend that goes above and beyond, and she LOVES her coffee - I'll have to give your recipe and try and grab some McCafé pods for her! Thanks for sharing #client
Carrie R
Now these are my kind of donuts! 🙂 Chocolate and coffee? Yes, please!
Sara Glover
These doughnuts look so good! I don't drink coffee but I bet these taste really good too!
Sarah Olson
Coffee and homemade doughnuts, is there anything better? Great recipe Shelby!