These festive baked mint chocolate donuts, topped with a simple glaze and crushed candy canes, are sure to dress up any holiday brunch or dessert table!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time12 minutesmins
Total Time27 minutesmins
Servings: 6
Calories: 181
Author: Peter | Simple Nourished Living
Ingredients
For the donuts:
1-¼cupsMoist style devil's food cake mix
½cuppumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
¼cupegg whites (about 2 large eggs), or fat-free liquid egg substitute
¼teaspoonpeppermint extract
For the glaze:
½cupconfectioner's sugar
4-½teaspoonsunsweetened almond milk beverage
2-3dropspeppermint extract
Dash of salt
1candy 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 ¼ 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 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.
Recipe Notes
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!Serving size: 1 glazed donutClick here to see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site.5*PointsPlus (Old plan)
Nutrition Facts
Mint Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Amount Per Serving (1 glazed donut)
Calories 181Calories from Fat 18
% Daily Value*
Fat 2g3%
Sodium 300mg13%
Carbohydrates 39g13%
Fiber 2g8%
Protein 3g6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.