High Altitude Baked Chocolate Peppermint Donuts
An easy, high altitude recipe for baked chocolate peppermint donuts, dipped in vanilla peppermint glaze, and topped with Christmas sprinkles.
All recipes on Curly Girl Kitchen are developed for high altitude at 5,280 feet. See FAQs for adjusting to higher or lower elevations.
Equipment
- Disposable Piping Bag
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, fluffed, spooned and leveled
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 6 tbsp unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- ½ tsp coarse Kosher salt (if using table salt, use half the amount)
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup full fat sour cream
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp peppermint (not mint) extract
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ tsp coarse Kosher salt (if using table salt, use half the amount)
- ½ tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- ½ tsp peppermint (not mint) extract
- ¼ cup whole milk
- sprinkles
Instructions
Donuts
- Preheat the oven to 375 F, and position a rack in the center of your oven. Spray your doughnut pans thoroughly with non-stick baking spray.Baker's Note: Standard-sized donut pans will yield 1 dozen donuts, and mini donut pans will yield 2 dozen donuts.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda, then whisk until evenly distributed.
- Separately, whisk together the eggs, sour cream, oil, vanilla and peppermint extracts. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and stir together with a spatula just until moistened.
- Scrape the batter into a piping bag, and snip off the tip. Pipe the batter into the doughnut pans, filling the molds no more than half full.
- Bake the doughnuts for about 8 minutes for mini donuts and 11-12 minutes for standard sized donuts, until risen and the tops spring back when gently touched.
- Cool the doughnuts in the pans for 2 minutes, then turn the pans over onto a cooling rack, letting the doughnuts fall out onto the cooling rack.
- If you still have batter left, re-fill the pans with the rest of your batter, and bake a second batch of doughnuts.
Icing
- In a bowl, stir together the icing ingredients until smooth.
- Dip the donuts in the icing (or just spoon it on top of them). Before the icing sets, finish with sprinkles.
Notes
Store leftover donuts in an airtight container for up to 3 days. The icing will get a little sticky by the second day.
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