You may have seen this recipe coming. I mean, come on. Chocolate and peanut butter. I had to.
The vanilla glazed donuts, i.e. Krispy Kreme donuts And the cinnamon bun with cream cheese frosting donuts, i.e. Cinnabons in donut form, were lovely but. The combination of chocolate and peanut butter will always hold a special place in my heart.
And these have been holding a special place in my heart and in my stomach the past few days. The peanut butter keeps them extra moist. So moist and dense you may think they were fried, but they’re baked.
Does baking them mean they’re somehow better for you than fried and therefore you can go ahead and have seconds? Or thirds? Sure, I’ll go with that logic. The scent of chocolate and peanut butter wafting through your house while these are baking is intoxicating. You’re forewarned.
But unlike chocolate cake or brownies which take much longer to bake, you’ll only be tempted for about 10 minutes while these babies bake. And while they’re baking, you can make the vanilla peanut butter glaze.
Try not to lick the glaze-mixing spoon too many times while you wait for them to come out of the oven. This is what they looked like fresh out of the oven and naked, BG (Before Glazing)
If for some reason you’re crazy you don’t like peanut butter, you could make a Cream Cheese Glaze or a basic Vanilla Glaze But I happen to love peanut butter so the glaze choice was obvious for me.
If you don’t have a donut pan, you should get one. $8 bucks with a coupon and well worth it but if you don’t have one and you’re desperate to get your chocolate peanut butter fix on pronto, you can make these as muffins as suggested in the recipe. Donuts seem more fun to eat than muffins though.
And these were very fun to eat.
I especially liked licking the vanilla-infused peanut butter glaze from my fingers. The sweet glaze balanced out the chocolate donuts which were not overly sweet. The donuts have a rich, dark chocolate flavor rather than a ‘sweet’ or milk chocolate flavor. They remind me of Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies but in donut form. Skylar and I were a sticky, peanut-buttery, chocolatey mess after we got done with these.
Her hair was getting in her eyes and face a bit while she was eating her donut and I had to remind her, “Honey, don’t touch your hair until after we wash our hands.” Nothing like a little peanut butter in your hair to keep it soft and shiny and a little cocoa powder and chocolate streaked through your hair to accentuate your lowlights. The donuts were so worth a little hair mess. That’s what shampoo is for. No biggie.
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