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WW Recipe of the Day: Mint Chocolate Glazed Donuts
These festive baked chocolate donuts are sure to be a welcome addition to any brunch table this holiday season. Starting with just two basic ingredients—devil’s food cake mix and canned pumpkin puree, they mix together by hand in minutes.
Topped with a simple glaze and crushed peppermint candy canes, each lite donut has less than 200 calories—making them much lighter and less sugary than your standard bake shop fried doughnut!
With just a handful more ingredients, these simple baked donuts are a more dressed up version of these 2-ingredient cookies and muffins.
How Many Calories and WeightWatchers Points in Baked Mint Chocolate Donuts?
According to my calculations, each donut has about 181 calories.
To see your WW Points for this recipe, track it in the WW App!
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)
To lower the calories and WW Points further, substitute your favorite sugar-free chocolate cake mix for the regular one.
How to Make Mint Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Step 1: Gather and prepare all ingredients.
Step 2: Preheat oven to 400F degrees. Lightly grease a 6-cavity donut pan (affiliate link) with nonstick spray.
Step 3: In a mixing bowl, add the devil’s food cake mix, pumpkin puree, egg whites, peppermint extract and 1/4 cup water. Thoroughly mix until batter is smooth and all cake mix is absorbed.
Step 4: Carefully pour the batter into the donut pan, being sure to distribute it evenly among the cavities. Alternatively, spoon the batter into the pan, or use a piping bag.
Step 5: Bake until set and a toothpick inserted in a donut comes out almost clean, about 10 to 12 minutes.
Step 6: While the donuts are baking, set a cooling rack (affiliate link) over a baking pan or over a sheet of parchment or wax paper (to catch drips from the glaze).
Step 7: When the donuts are done baking, allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before removing to cooling rack to cool completely.
Step 8: In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, almond milk, 2-3 drops peppermint extract and dash salt until smooth and thoroughly mixed.
Step 9: Once donuts have cooled, dunk the top halves of the donuts in the glaze and return to cooling rack,
sprinkling with crushed candy cane, or peppermint candies.
Step 10: Allow glaze to set, 5 to 10 minutes, before serving.
Step 11: Store leftover donuts in an airtight container.
Recipe Notes
Use a piping bag to fill your donut pan (affiliate link) for a clean uniform look to your donuts. Simply transfer the batter to a plastic bag and squeeze all the batter down to one of the corners. When you’re ready to fill the pan, simply make a small hole by cutting off the corner of the bag with scissors and squeeze out the batter.
If you don’t have candy canes, any hard peppermint candies will work and once they crushed you won’t be able to tell the difference!
To lower the WW Points and calories even further, simply substitute your favorite sugar-free chocolate cake mix for the regular one.
Ways to Use Leftover Donuts
You can store any leftover donuts in an airtight container for up to three days.
Top a donut with a small scoop of lite vanilla ice or low-fat frozen yogurt for a decadent mint chocolate glazed donut à la mode!
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Mint Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Ingredients
For the donuts:
- 1-1/4 cups Moist style devil's food cake mix
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 1/4 cup egg whites (about 2 large eggs), or fat-free liquid egg substitute
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
For the glaze:
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 4-1/2 teaspoons unsweetened almond milk beverage
- 2-3 drops peppermint extract
- Dash of salt
- 1 candy cane or 3 mini candy canes, crushed (I used See's Peppermint Twists)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F degrees. Lightly grease a 6-cavity donut pan with nonstick spray.
- In a mixing bowl, add the devil's food cake mix, pumpkin puree, egg whites, peppermint extract and 1/4 cup water. Thoroughly mix until batter is smooth and all cake mix is absorbed.
- Carefully pour the batter into the donut pan, being sure to distribute it evenly among the cavities. Alternatively, spoon the batter into the pan, or use a piping bag.
- Bake until set and a toothpick inserted in a donut comes out almost clean, about 10 to 12 minutes.
- While the donuts are baking, set a cooling rack (affiliate link) over a baking pan or over a sheet of parchment or wax paper (to catch drips from the glaze).
- When the donuts are finished baking, allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before removing to cooling rack to cool completely.
- Prepare the glaze – In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, almond milk, 2-3 drops peppermint extract and dash salt until smooth and thoroughly mixed.
- Once donuts have cooled, dunk the top halves of donuts in glaze and return to cooling rack, sprinkling with crushed candy cane, or peppermint candies, over the glaze.
- Allow glaze to set, 5 to 10 minutes, before serving.
- Store leftover donuts in an airtight container.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 5 PointsPlus (Old plan) Use a piping bag to fill your donut pan for a clean uniform look to your donuts. Simply transfer the batter to a plastic bag and squeeze all the batter down to one of the corners. When you’re ready to fill the pan, simply make a small hole by cutting off the corner of the bag with scissors and squeeze the batter out. If you don’t have candy canes, any hard peppermint candies will work and once they crushed you won’t be able to tell the difference! Lower the calories and WW Points even more by substituting your favorite sugar-free chocolate cake mix for the regular one.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe source: HungryGirl
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