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Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts

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These Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts are light and cake-y, doused with a sweet powdered sugar glaze, and topped with chopped Oreos and chocolate sprinkles.

Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts | A Nerd Cooks

Donut… doughnut…  How do you spell it?  I’m partial to “donut” without any real justification for that preference.  The spell check on this computer is flagging “donut” but not “doughnut” as not being a word but… I’m gonna stick to my guns.

Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts | A Nerd Cooks

I’ve been getting my donut on lately (see chocolate peppermint cake donuts and pumpkin streusel donuts), and have plans to make more over the weekend.  So stay tuned next week!

These particular donuts are especially easy to make,  since they start out as a boxed cake mix!  I tend to be a little snobby about making everything from scratch, so I had shied away from recipes that use boxed mixes.  But, really, there’s no need for pretentiousness when a shortcut like this can get donuts into your face hole more quickly.  Come with me; Let us all embrace the boxed cake mix donut!

Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts | A Nerd Cooks

This recipe comes from Kleinworth & Co.

4.67 from 3 votes
Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts | A Nerd Cooks
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Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
Course: Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 donuts
Ingredients
For the donuts
  • 1 box chocolate cake mix
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
For the glaze
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2-3 tbs milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the toppings
  • chopped Oreo cookies
  • chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
To make the donuts

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a donut pan or two with cooking spray and set them aside.

  2. In a medium-sized bowl, add the cake mix, egg, vegetable oil, and water. Mix until combined. 

  3. Using a piping bag, or spoon, fill the donut pan(s) up about 1/2-3/4 of the way.

  4. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the donuts are done all the way through. Allow them to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning them out onto a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
To make the glaze

  1. In a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar a bit of the milk, and the vanilla extract. (see notes)

  2. Spoon the glaze liberally over the tops of the donuts. Add as many chopped Oreos and sprinkles as your heart desires. 

Recipe Notes

Notes: Find that your glaze is too thin? Add some more powdered sugar. Too thick? More milk. Keep going until you hit on a consistency that you're happy with.

 

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  1. I call them donuts too instead of doughnuts!

    Anyway, your donuts look so good I can practically taste them from my screen. Haha! I have no experience yet on baking so this might be a challenge but looking at pictures like these really inspires me. Thank you for sharing! 🙂

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    • Thank you!! For a novice baker, these would be right up your alley. It’s a mix, spoon, bake kind of deal. Just make sure to really grease the donut pans! Thanks =)

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    • Thank you so much!! I’m a big fan of cakey donuts, too. And if you can get cakey donuts into my mouth quickly without me having to leave the house? Even better =)

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  5. These look really good! But…I want my donuts to be more like a cake donut and less like a boxed cake texture. What can I add to the mix to make them more dense?

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    • Tbh, that’s how I prefer my donuts, too. I think you might be better off making them from scratch rather than using a boxed cake mix.

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