Chocolate Doughnut Cakes

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 - 15 minutes
Makes: 6

Ingredients

20 gunsalted butter, softened
3½ tspoil
30 gcastor sugar
25 gbrown sugar
34 gQL Omega Egg
102 gplain flour
½ tspbaking powder
A pinch of baking soda
7 gcocoa powder
¼ tspsalt
75 gmilk
⅛ tspvanilla essence
Glaze:
½ cupwhite chocolate, melted
1 tbsplight corn syrup
1 tbspbutter, melted
½ tspvanilla essence
Water

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 210°C with fan.
  2. For the doughnuts, cream together the butter, oil and sugar until combined.
  3. Add the QL Omega Egg, beat for 1 minute until mixture is smooth.
  4. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda. Add the salt and mix well.
  5. Fold half the flour mixture into the QL Omega Egg mixture, then add the milk and vanilla. Mix briefly.
  6. Fold in the remaining flour mixture into the batter. Transfer the batter into a piping bag.
  7. Pipe the batter into a non-stick doughnut pan to about ½ cm below the top rim.
  8. Bake for 10 - 15 minutes or until done. Remove doughnut pan from oven and leave the doughnuts to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning them out to cool completely.
  9. To make the glaze mix everything together except the water. Add a little bit of water and mix until a smooth glaze is formed.

 

QL Omega & QL Deli Fresh eggs are available at major hypermarkets and supermarkets. For more information on QL Eggs, click here.

 

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