Mint Chocolate Glazed Donuts
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!
Servings: 6
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 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
Serving size: 1 glazed donut
WW Points: 9
Check the WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app.
(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.
(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
Serving: 1glazed donut | Calories: 181kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 0.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Sodium: 61mg | Potassium: 76mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 3178IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg