Chocolate-Pumpkin Donuts

Recipe for baked chocolate donuts with pumpkin and chocolate glaze

Today I invite you to try delicious, soft and nicely moist baked chocolate-pumpkin donuts. These donuts, made with dark chocolate and covered with chocolate glaze, taste absolutely exquisite! Depending on the final decoration, you can serve these donuts for Halloween, birthdays, various holidays, or with weekend coffee. Be sure to check out my recipe and see how to make baked chocolate donuts.

Baked chocolate-pumpkin donuts recipe step by step

If you like intensely chocolatey sweet baked goods, then you absolutely must try the recipe for these delicious donuts!

Chocolate-Pumpkin Donuts recipe with video

Wypieki Beaty

A recipe for amazing baked chocolate donuts with pumpkin and chocolate glaze.

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Prep Time 18 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Desserts

Kuchnia American cuisine, English cuisine

Servings 7 pieces – approximately

Calories 256 kcal

Wyposażenie

• Donut baking pan or small bundtlet pans. Optionally, you can bake regular muffins – see tips in the notes below the recipe.

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Składniki

ingredients for chocolate-pumpkin donuts

• 60 g butter
• 50 g dark chocolate
• 75 g powdered sugar (0.5 cup)
• 125 g pumpkin (puree or mash)
• 1 egg (size L)
• 75 g wheat flour – all-purpose (0.5 cup)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon

ingredients for chocolate glaze

• 50 g dark chocolate
• 60 ml heavy cream

additional ingredients

• sugar sprinkles

Instrukcja

 

How to make baked chocolate-pumpkin donuts step by step

Step 1 – preparations

• Grease the donut pan with butter and dust with flour.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (top/bottom heat mode) or 170 degrees (convection).

Step 2 – prepare the dough for donuts

• In a saucepan, heat butter and broken chocolate together.
  60 g butter, 50 g dark chocolate
  
• Stir until you get a smooth glaze – remove from heat.
• Immediately add sugar to the warm glaze and mix thoroughly.
  75 g powdered sugar
  
• Add pumpkin and mix.
  125 g pumpkin
  
• Crack in the egg and mix.
  1 egg
  
• Mix together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon.
  75 g wheat flour – all-purpose, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon
• Add the flour to the pot with the dough and mix thoroughly – my dough was quite loose.
  

Step 3 – place the dough into the mold

• Transfer the dough to a strong bag.
  
• Place the dough into the mold – I got 6 large donuts and 3 small cupcakes with a hole.
  

Step 4 – baking the donuts

• Place the donut pan in the preheated oven and bake for about 12 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• After baking, let them cool completely.

Step 5 – decorating the donuts

• Heat the heavy cream, and once it’s hot, add the broken chocolate—stir thoroughly until you get a smooth glaze, then let it cool.
  60 ml heavy cream, 50 g dark chocolate
  
• Dip the donuts in the chocolate glaze.
  
• Finally, sprinkle the donuts with sugar sprinkles.
  sugar sprinkles
  

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Uwagi

Cup = 250 ml.

Check the notes below the recipe for possible ingredient substitutions or helpful tips for making the recipe.

The recipe video is in Polish, but you can watch it to see the step-by-step process.

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Wartości Odżywcze

Serving: 1pieceCalories: 256kcalWeglowodany: 26gProtein: 4gTłuszcz: 16g

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Baked chocolate donuts with pumpkin – notes

I prepared my chocolate-pumpkin donuts today with Halloween in mind – hence the choice of sugar sprinkles, but their taste is so versatile that they can adorn any table, for various holidays and celebrations. Donuts baked with dark chocolate have a deep chocolate flavor, and pumpkin adds moisture and lightness to them. Additionally, a layer of dark chocolate glaze and sweet sprinkles complete the overall taste. For me, it’s a sensation! You must try them! And if you’re also looking for other inspirations for Halloween sweets, check out my Halloween recipes and find the perfect recipe for yourself.

What ingredients are necessary to bake chocolate donuts?

To make the donuts, you only need a few basic ingredients. Below, I’m sharing a short list of the products I used, along with possible substitutes.

• chocolate – dark chocolate works best, but you can also use semi-sweet chocolate. Half of the bar (50 g) goes into the donut batter, and the other half is used for the glaze—so nothing goes to waste :)
• pumpkin -here, I used pumpkin purée from baby food jars—those “first foods” for babies. This purée is quite watery (compared to regular pumpkin purée), so the batter turned out more runny. You can use regular pumpkin purée instead—I recommend baking a Hokkaido pumpkin (see my post on making pumpkin purée). If the batter is too thick, you can thin it slightly by adding a little regular milk at a time.
• sugar – I used powdered sugar so it would dissolve quickly in the warm glaze, but you can also use regular granulated sugar—if measuring by cup, use a little over 1/3 cup of granulated sugar, or adjust to taste.

I don’t have a donut pan—how can I bake them?

If you don’t have a special donut pan, you can bake regular muffins with this batter—I suggest doubling the ingredients to make about 12 muffins. Prepare the muffins the same way as the donuts and spoon the batter into paper liners. Bake them in a preheated oven for about 20–25 minutes. Once baked and cooled, you can drizzle them with chocolate glaze and sprinkle with toppings.

Chocolate Pumpkin Donuts for Halloween

If you’re making the donuts for Halloween, it’s worth looking for Halloween decorations in stores—now you can even find some in regular shops like Biedronka or Lidl. These could be sugar sprinkles—for example, I used sugar bones and skulls, plus colorful autumn sprinkles with various leaves. You can also top them with marshmallows shaped like vampire teeth, or chocolate eyes :)

How can you decorate chocolate donuts?

If you don’t have sugar sprinkles, no worries. You can sprinkle the glaze with chopped nuts—hazelnuts, walnuts, or pecans work great. You can also grate some chocolate on top for an extra chocolatey touch, making the donuts triple chocolate :)

I hope these baked pumpkin donuts with chocolate will delight you and your loved ones, and that you’ll enjoy making them during pumpkin season—and beyond :) Leave a comment under the recipe and share your thoughts and feedback.

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If you love homemade donuts in all kinds of flavors, be sure to check out my other recipes for these treats. On the blog, you’ll find recipes for both baked donuts and deep-fried ones. Here, I especially recommend three of these recipes, and there are plenty more on the blog. You’re warmly invited to explore them.

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