Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

Name: Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
Ingredients: 2¼ cups (11¼ ounces/319 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 cup (3 ounces/85 grams), unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; ½ teaspoon, baking soda; ¾ teaspoon, table salt; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup (7 ounces/198 grams), granulated sugar; 1 , large egg, room temperature; 1½ cups, sour cream; 3 quarts, peanut or vegetable oil for frying; 3 cups (12 ounces/340 grams), confectioners' sugar; ½ cup, whole milk; ¼ cup (¾ ounces/21 grams), unsweetened cocoa powder

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate

By Sam Block

Whether you're surprised with a box of doughnut-shop treats on the breakfast table or encounter one in the work breakroom, there's a good chance you're going to rush to snatch the coveted chocolate cake doughnut.

SERVES Makes 12 doughnuts and 12 doughnut holes

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

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