Chocolate Donut Recipe With Gluten Free Option

Have you made donuts at home?   It’s quite easy, especially if you go the baked donut route.  Today I have a simple baked chocolate donut recipe for you that can also be made gluten free.

The other day I stopped at Dunkin Donuts to pick up a birthday gift for one of my daughter’s teachers.  My daughter said that her teacher loved Dunkin Donuts coffee, and that a gift card for Dunkin Donuts would make a great gift for her.  That worked for me.   I picked up a gift card, along with an empty cup, and packaged it up.  I thought I’d share as I know that many of us will be looking for end of the year of the school year teacher gift ideas soon, and this is pretty fun and super simple.

When I was there I saw that they were selling PEEPS Donuts.  Um, yay!

I was all excited and about to buy one for each of my girls and then remembered those pesky little details, you know, that one has a nut allergy and that the other is on a gluten free diet, so that bright idea was quickly shot down.   Thankfully I easily created my own at home, and used our favorite donut flavor – chocolate.

So fun!  If you don’t have a donut pan, you can always use a muffin pan instead to make donuts.    This is the donut pan I have.  I bought the six count pan but really wish I had purchased the 12 count.  You can always leave a few of the cavities empty if you aren’t making 12 donuts.

For this recipe, you can make these donuts gluten free by using a gluten free flour blend.  I used Cup4Cup Gluten Free Flour to make mine.   If gluten is not an issue in your house, all purpose flour works great and I also love using white whole wheat flour to make these.

Chocolate Donut Recipe With Gluten Free Option

Print Pin Rate

Ingredients

• 1¼ cups all purpose flour white whole wheat flour
• FOR GLUTEN FREE - Use A Gluten Free Flour such as Cup4Cup
• ½ cup dark cocoa regular cocoa works fine as well
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Generously spray donut pan with non stick cooking spray.
• Stir dry ingredients together in mixing bowl. Add egg, buttermilk, vegetable oil and vanilla. Using a mixer on medium speed, blend until smooth.
• Spoon batter into donut pan or place batter into a piping bag and pipe the donut batter into the donut pan (this is my preferred method).
• Bake for approximately 11-13 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into donut comes out clean. Allow to cool slightly and remove carefully from pan.
• Add a dusting of powdered sugar, a glaze or chocolate frosting (and sprinkles) if desired. Top with Peeps for even more fun!

Tried this recipe?Mention @lovefromtheoven or tag #lovefromtheoven!

For my chocolate glaze, I love this recipe.

Here’s another look at the fun idea for packaging up a gift card from any coffee shop!  Such a fun gift idea for teachers.