Raspberry Chocolate Doughnuts
Soft, baked chocolate doughnuts that are filled with fresh raspberry jam, sprinkled with powder sugar, and drizzle with more raspberry sauce. Wonderful morning treat for all that love raspberry chocolate flavors and doughnuts.
I’ve never realized just how many people there are that love the flavor combination of chocolate and raspberry. Personally, I give a much bigger preference to white chocolate and raspberry flavor combo and would rather not add fruit or berries to my regular chocolate. But you should see how high my sister can jump when I mention “raspberry chocolate” anything. She jumps just about as high as my little man does when I make doughnuts, any doughnuts.
I really wanted to play around with filling baked doughnuts recipe and my family is always very supportive when I want to play around with any kind of a doughnut recipe. (I suspect they have selfish motives there.) When I ran an idea of “jelly filled” BAKED doughnuts by them, they were all for it. Making the doughnuts chocolate and filling them with raspberry jam seemed like a pretty good idea.
It really was not as difficult as one might think. It takes a delicate touch and making sure that the opening in a piping bag is not too big so the batter doesn’t pour too fast. Otherwise, easy-peasy, and in the end, these little chocolate treats do not disappoint! They came out soft, sweet, with a nice balance of a little sourness from fresh raspberry jam. Since some chocolate baked doughnuts could be a little on a dry side, I used sour cream and brown sugar. Yum!
Raspberry Chocolate Doughnuts
Ingredients
- Doughnuts:
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- Dash of salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ⅔ cup whole milk
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter melted
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate melted
- 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
- Raspberry Filling:
- 9 oz raspberries
- 2/3 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small sauce pot, over medium heat, combine raspberries, vanilla, lemon juice and sugar. Mix well and cook, uncovered, for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Strain out about 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons of raspberry liquid for the drizzle. Chill remaining raspberry jam until cold and put it in a piping bag. (You will cut off a small opening at the tip of the piping bag when ready to fill the doughnuts.)
- Preheat the oven to 350 and grease a doughnut pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk egg, sugar, milk, sour cream, melted butter, and vanilla together until smooth.
- Sift in all dry ingredients and whisk until all incorporated.
- Break up baking chocolate and put it in a small bowl. Microwave for 45 seconds on 1/2 power. Stir and microwave for 30 more seconds if needed. (Still on 1/2 power.)
- Mix melted chocolate into the batter.
- Pour the batter into a piping bag. (You may have to pour some batter in and refill later.)
- Cut the tip off the piping bag, leaving only about about 1/4 to 1/2 inch opening.
- Squeeze batter into the doughnut cups of the pan, in a circular motion, filling them only about 1/2 way. Make sure there is an even amount of batter all around.
- Pipe in some raspberry jam in the middle of the batter, in a circular motion, making sure that the jam doesn't go to the edges.
- Pipe some more chocolate batter over the jam, covering it completely and filling the doughnut pan cups no more than 3/4 full.
- (Refill the piping bag when needed.)
- Bake for 15-18 minutes and let doughnuts cool on the wire rack.
- Sprinkle with powder sugar and drizzle with strained raspberry sauce.
Nutrition
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This was my very first attempt to make donuts; so I placed too much of the batter in the bottom of the pan. It filled the cavities after of the pan after baking. It was more like little filled cakes. I only got 6 cakes from the recipient. They were delicious though. I learned from the experience, and look forward to making these again.
I am glad they were still delicious!