Chocolate Cinnamon Doughnuts Recipe
This Chocolate Cinnamon Doughnuts recipe is easily right at the top of my favorite list. It is most popularly enjoyed as a Snack. Is it you or the aroma of Chocolate Cinnamon Doughnuts that you happen to be making that has dragged me in the direction of the kitchen?, were my partner's words.
Ingredients
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 beaten eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup cooking oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup buttermilk
Cooking oil or shortening for deep-fat frying
Cinnamon Glaze
Directions
In mixing bowl stir together the flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda.
Beat eggs and sugar together till thick and lemon-colored.
Stir in 1/4 cup cooking oil and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately to egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Beat just till blended after each addition.
Cover and chill dough about 2 hours.
Roll dough, half at a time, on lightly floured surface to 1/2-inch thickness.
Cut with floured 2 1/2 inch doughnut cutter.
Fry in deep hot fat (375°) about 1 1/2 minutes per side; turn once.
Drain.
Dip warm doughnuts in Cinnamon Glaze
Beat eggs and sugar together till thick and lemon-colored.
Stir in 1/4 cup cooking oil and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately to egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Beat just till blended after each addition.
Cover and chill dough about 2 hours.
Roll dough, half at a time, on lightly floured surface to 1/2-inch thickness.
Cut with floured 2 1/2 inch doughnut cutter.
Fry in deep hot fat (375°) about 1 1/2 minutes per side; turn once.
Drain.
Dip warm doughnuts in Cinnamon Glaze
