Lime Cake Doughnuts with Chocolate Glaze Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is chocolate donut glaze made of? ›

Combine butter, milk, corn syrup, and vanilla in medium saucepan and heat over medium heat until butter is melted. Decrease the heat to low, add the chocolate, and whisk until melted. Turn off heat, add the powdered sugar, and whisk until smooth.

What is in a doughnut cake, you ask? How do you make one? Well, you need three dozen Krispy Kreme Original Glazed® Doughnuts, a whole lotta whipped cream, and homemade chocolate fudge sauce. Easy enough right?

Frosting typically has a butter or cream cheese base, while icing and glaze are made from powdered sugar and water, juice, or milk. So if the taste is fattier or creamier, it's probably frosting.

The Boston cream doughnut (or Boston cream pie doughnut, also spelled donut, or simply Boston Cream) is a round, solid, yeast-risen doughnut with chocolate frosting and a custard filling, resulting in a doughnut reminiscent of a miniature Boston cream pie.

The Obvious Difference

Yeast doughnuts, as the name clearly spells out, are made from dough leavened with yeast (think brioche), whereas cake doughnuts are traditionally made from a kind of cake batter that uses a chemical leavener (i.e. baking powder or baking soda).

Doughnuts are usually deep fried from a flour dough, but other types of batters can also be used. Various toppings and flavors are used for different types, such as sugar, chocolate or maple glazing. Doughnuts may also include water, leavening, eggs, milk, sugar, oil, shortening, and natural or artificial flavors.

Unless the dough is completely relaxed, it will shrink and become misshapen as it is cut. When rolling out the dough, try to get the entire piece down to a uniform thickness (usually ¼" to ½", or 6.4 mm to 1.3 cm, thick).

Cake donuts are also easy to store. All you need to do is wrap them in paper and put them in a plastic container. Cake donuts can last as long as five days if they are stored in an airtight container. You can also refrigerate them to keep them fresher for weeks.

Correct mixing - kneading of the dough. It needs to be thoroughly kneaded but not over-kneaded or they will be tough. Under-kneaded dough will produce donuts that flatten out instead of get taller when they are proofed. The liquid content of the dough must be precise.

Cake doughnuts are stored similarly to yeast doughnuts but can be left in a room temperature airtight container longer because it has a denser dough. Keeping these doughnuts in a container out of direct sunlight should be safe for about five to six days as long as it does not have any dairy-based fillings or grow mold.

How many doughnuts for a cake? ›

To determine how many donuts you will need, place the donuts on a cake stand or plate in a circle, fitting in as many pieces as you can (7-8 is pretty standard).

Glaze or fill as follows, and serve as soon as possible. Whisk together 2 cups powdered sugar, ¼ cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth. When the doughnuts are cool enough to handle, dip into the glaze; if you like, flip them so the tops they're completely covered. Put on racks to let the glaze harden.

Chocolate Iced Glazed Doughnut

Chocolate lovers take note! We take our Original Glazed® doughnut one simple, yet delicious, step further by hand-dipping it in smooth, delectable chocolate icing to create a delicious Chocolate Iced Glazed Doughnut. “I always know they're (Chocolate Iced Glazed) going to be delicious.”

Label Ingredient Statement:

Sugar, cocoa, soy lecithin, artificial flavor.

Icing is a little thinner than frosting and is often poured or piped over coffee cakes, pound cakes, doughnuts and cookies—and it usually hardens when it dries. Glaze is the thinnest and most fluid of the three, and it will set but won't harden as much as icing.