Baked Mini Chocolate Donuts (in less than 10 minutes!)

A few weeks ago, we added one of the most dangerous appliances to the kitchen... a mini donut maker (this one, to be exact)!! Being able to bake a batch of seven mini donuts in under 3 minutes is pretty much a dream come true! As you know, we are big fans of "cakenuts" (aka baked, cake-textured donuts) and I will continue to bake them until Taylor can convince me that we won't burn the building down by trying to deep fry them. haha!



Ingredients

1 box of chocolate cake mix
1 large egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup of water

(optional for icing & decorating)
1 cup powdered sugar
3 tbsp water
rainbow sprinkles


Directions

1. Mix the boxed cake mix, egg, oil, and water together until you have a smooth mixture.
2. Scoop the mixture into a piping bag (or a Ziplock bag), cut the tip, and then pipe into each of the wells of the donut maker.
3. After about 3 minutes of baking, pop these lil nuggets out and set them out on a cooling rack.
4. While the mini chocolate treasures are cooling, mix the powdered sugar and water together in a small bowl to make the icing. You want the viscosity of the icing to be just a wee bit thicker than that of cooking oil.
5. Once the donuts have cooled, dip each of them into the bowl of icing and rotate to evenly coat the top.
6. If you're feeling super fancy, sprinkle on sugary sprinkle goodness!



Not going to lie.. I might've eaten half of dozen of these by myself before we took photos of the donuts for this post. I risked myself for... uh... quality control, y'know? You're welcome. ;)