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Chocolate Glazed Orange Doughnuts

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 12

Ingredients

  • Ingredients for the doughnuts:
  • 2 1/2 cups cake flour, or 2 and 1/2 cups plain flour with 5tbsp removed and replaced with cornflour
  • 1 cup + 2tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 - 1 cup milk; I needed closer to 1 cup
  • 1 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 4 tsp freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • Ingredients for the milk chocolate glaze:
  • 10 oz good quality milk chocolate
  • 1 cup double cream
  • 2 tbsp golden syrup

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C/325F and spray a doughnut pan with PAM/bake easy spray (you can also grease them, but I find bake easy works the best). Unless you have 2 doughnut pans, you'll need to bake in batches.
  • Place the flour, caster sugar and baking powder into a large bowl and mix briefly.
  • Place the eggs, milk (3/4 cup first - add the rest slowly if required), vegetable oil, zest, orange juice and vanilla extract into a jug and beat with a fork until well combined.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix together with a wooden spoon/rubber spatula until well combined. Don't be tempted to over mix though, once the batter is together it's time to stop mixing.
  • Place half the doughnut batter into a piping bag and snip the end off. Pipe the batter into the doughnut holes, about 2/3 full.
  • Place the doughnuts in the oven for 10-14 minutes until risen, very, very slightly coloured and an inserted skewer comes out clean.
  • Leave to cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. If you only have one doughnut pan, re grease it and pipe the remaining batter into the holes.
  • Once completely cooled, it's time to make the glaze - break the chocolate up into a medium sized heatproof bowl.
  • Place the double cream and golden syrup into a small saucepan and bring to the boil over a low-med heat. Stir occasionally. Once boiling, remove from the heat and pour over the chocolate in the heatproof bowl. Stir until you have a lovely smooth glaze.
  • Place kitchen paper underneath your wire rack to catch spilt glaze and then dip each doughnut into the glaze before returning to your wire rack to set.
  • Place a piece of clingfilm over the glaze, press the clingfilm onto the glaze to stop a skin from forming. Leave the doughnuts to dry for 1-2 hours before dipping the doughnuts into the glaze again. Return to wire rack to set again. The glaze does not set hard and will always be slightly sticky.
  • Doughnuts will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days.

Notes

Recipe adapted from 150 Best Donut Recipes by George Geary