I have been asked about 1,999,999 times to make doughnuts. Seriously, I’m not exaggerating. My daughter loves chocolate covered doughnuts and every since she saw Paul Dean make some doughnuts on her show I have been asked, no, begged several different times to make them. Each time resulted in me making something else, and that is pretty much the case for this time too.
We were able to agree on chocolate covered cinnamon rolls as these are some of her favorites. To make it more doughnut-esq, we just cut holes out of the centers and covered them with sprinkles.I used this recipe for cinnamon rolls that I found on Allrecipes.com a while ago. This is my 3rd time making ½ of a recipe and they are probably some of the best cinnamon rolls that I have ever had. The recipe involves a box, or in my case a ½ of a box, of yellow cake mix. Normally I do not use cake mix for anything but chess squares, but I gave it a try and I absolutely love them and so does my daughter!
For the chocolate glaze, I used this recipe from WeWorkForCheese.com. It is simple and absolutely scrumptious. I think my daughter licked most of the chocolate from the spoon. The only difference in this recipe is that I used Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa instead of just regular unsweetened.
Instead of making the rolls in a crowded pan I placed them on parchment lined baking sheet so that they would get a brown crust all the way around like a doughnut would. After they cooled I dipped them in the glaze, cut the centers out and then sprinkled them. Using a circle cutter, we cut the centers out before dipping just so the sprinkles would only adhere to the outside of the faux-nut.
After everything was done, my daughter was absolutely thrilled at how her faux-nuts turned out and hasn’t asked me, so far, to make any more doughnuts. Let’s see how long this lasts. :)
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