Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

Name: Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
Yield: Makes 12 doughnuts and 12 doughnut holes
Ingredients: 2¼ cups (11¼ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 cup (3 ounces), unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; ½ teaspoon, baking soda; ¾ teaspoon, table salt; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup (7 ounces), granulated sugar; 1 , large egg, room temperature; 1½ cups, sour cream; 3 quarts, peanut or vegetable oil for frying; 3 cups (12 ounces), confectioners' sugar; ½ cup, whole milk; ¼ cup (¾ ounce), unsweetened cocoa powder

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Whether you're surprised with a box of doughnut-shop treats on the breakfast table or encounter one in the work breakroom, there's a good chance you're going to rush to snatch the coveted chocolate cake doughnut.

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Everything Chocolate

SERVESMakes 12 doughnuts and 12 doughnut holes

TIME1¼ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Everything Chocolate

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Some doughnuts are great, but many taste good only due to nostalgia and are in fact dry, crumbly, and light in chocolate flavor—and supermarket options are even worse. We think if you're going to have a doughnut for breakfast, it should be ...

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