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Chocolate Peanut Butter Donuts

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These chocolate peanut butter donuts are the perfect combination of soft, baked peanut butter donuts coated in a rich chocolate ganache glaze and finished with a peanut butter drizzle! 

Ingredients

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Peanut Butter Donuts 

  • 1 Cup (125 g) Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Large Egg, Room Temperature
  • 1/3 Cup (72 g) Brown Sugar, Dark or Light, Packed
  • 1/4 Cup (60 ml) Milk of Choice, Dairy or Non-Dairy, Room Temperature
  • 1/4 Cup (2 oz) Whole Milk Yogurt, Room Temperature 
  • 2 Tablespoons (32 g) Smooth Peanut Butter
  • 3 Tablespoons (45 ml) Neutral Flavored Oil i.e. Avocado/Vegetable Oil
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract  

Chocolate Ganache

  • 2 Ounces (57 g) Semi-Sweet Chocolate, Finely Chopped
  • 1/4 Cup (60 ml) Heavy Cream, Warmed to Hot, Not Boiled

Assembly 

  • 2 Tablespoons (32 g) Smooth Peanut Butter
  • Neutral Flavored Oil, i.e. Avocado/Vegetable Oil, If Needed
  • Roasted Peanuts, Finely Chopped

Instructions

Peanut Butter Donuts 

  1. Preheat oven to 350F(180C). Generously grease a 6-Count donut baking pan.
  2. In a medium mixing bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk ingredients together to combine.
  3. In a separate medium mixing bowl, add the sugar, oil, yogurt and peanut butter. Whisk ingredients together until a smooth batter forms, about 1-2 minutes. Next, whisk in the egg followed by the milk and vanilla extract into wet batter.
  4. Make a well in the bowl with the dry ingredients and pour wet batter into the center of it. 
  5. With a wooden/large spoon carefully mix everything together until a smooth batter is achieved, about 2-3 minutes. Take care to not overmix peanut butter donut batter.
  6. Transfer peanut butter donut batter into a large pastry bag (may use a large ziplock bag in place of pastry bag), cut off about ½ inch from the tip of pastry bag and pipe batter into prepared baking pan. Alternatively, peanut butter donut batter may be spooned into baking pan.
  7. Bake peanut butter donuts for 12-14 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through bake time. Donuts are ready when a toothpick inserted into the center of one comes out clean.
  8. Cool peanut butter donuts in baking pan for 4-5 minutes before removing and transferring to a cooling rack to cool to room temperature. 

Chocolate Ganache Glaze 

  1. Place finely chopped chocolate into a small mixing bowl and pour heated heavy cream over the top.
  2. Allow mixture to sit untouched for 30-60 seconds.
  3. Starting in the center and moving outward, whisk cream into melted chocolate until all of the cream has been incorporated into the chocolate and you have a smooth, shiny chocolate ganache. 

Assembly 

  1. Add peanut butter into a small dish and heat in the microwave for 15-20 seconds. Once whisked, melted peanut butter should have a smooth, pourable consistency. If peanut butter appears slightly thick, whisk in neutral flavored oil ½ teaspoon at a time until a pourable consistency is reached. Set melted peanut butter aside to cool as the donuts are being assembled.
  2. Individually dip the cooled peanut butter donuts into cooled chocolate ganache.
  3. Drizzle cooled, melted peanut butter over the top of chocolate glaze with a spoon. For more precise lines, melted peanut butter may be transferred to a pastry bag and piped onto donuts (This is completely optional.)
  4. Sprinkle chocolate peanut butter donuts with finely chopped peanuts and serve. 

Notes

  • Chocolate peanut butter donuts are best eaten the day it is baked; however, leftover chocolate peanut butter donuts stored in an airtight container will last 1-2 days in the fridge and 1-2 months in the freezer.
  • To prevent donuts from sticking to pan once baked, take the time to ensure that donut baking pan is properly greased. To grease pan, you may either use melted butter, oil or a cooking spray that has flour mixed in like this brand.
  • I find that piping peanut butter donut batter into baking pan allows for more evenly shaped donuts but this step is optional. Batter may be spooned into donut baking pan if preferred.
  • Once peanut butter donuts are removed from oven, allow to donuts to rest in pan for 4-5 minutes. This will make removal from pan easier without donuts sticking to pan. 

 

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