Ultimate Oreo Chocolate Cake Donuts

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Moist and fluffy, addicting, melt-in-your mouth Oreo Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosted Chocolate Cake Donuts are the way to go for a decadent, sweet rush of heavenly YUM!

Enjoy with your coffee or the old-school milk and Oreo cookie love dunking with these tasty chocolate donuts!  Or maybe you’re into these Baked Pumpkin Cake Donuts with cinnamon maple glaze or these Delectable Glazed Blueberry Donuts!

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Yes, Give Me ALL The Oreo Donuts!

I’ve been craving chocolate donuts!  Wait!! !  Not just any ole chocolate donuts!!  Yummy, light and fluffy CHOCOLATE cake donuts, to be quite honest!  Throw in some Oreos and frosting and we’re golden!

Fluffy Oreo Chocolate Cake Donuts you have bewitched me!  Body, heart and soul and cravings. 

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Oreo Donuts Totally ‘WOW’! 

Here’s Why!   

  • The key to taking these baked cake donuts over the top is the delightful Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting on top with Oreo crumbles galore.  
  • By adding Greek yogurt and almond milk to this donut recipe, it makes these muffins ultra tender, moist and fluffy.  
  • The dark chocolate cocoa powder and chocolate extract gives the donuts an extra kick of chocolate, and with the pairing of creamy, delicious vanilla cream cheese frosting and irresistible Oreos?!  Oh Hello Yummy!  
  • If you don’t have a donut pan, which you totally should, because they are cheap to buy and your donuts will look professional.  Plus who the heck doesn’t like donuts?  If you don’t have a donut pan, you can make them in muffin tins as well!

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Ingredients You Need

Vanilla Frosting w/Oreos

  • butter 
  • cream cheese
  • vanilla extract
  • powdered sugar
  • milk of choice or cream, optional
  • Oreo crumbles for top of donuts

Ultimate chocolate oreo donutsHow to Make Baked Oreo Donuts!

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Grease a doughnut pan and set it aside.
  3. Sift the cocoa powder into a large bowl, then add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and whisk all together. Set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, yogurt or sour cream, and chocolate or vanilla extract. Add in the melted butter and whisk until combined.
  5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir them together until just combined.
  6. Take a large ziplock, snip an inch hole in corner and spoon the batter into the bag, then pipe the donut dough into the greased doughnut pan filling each well about ¾ of the way full. You can also use a spoon, or a pastry bag to do this as well.
  7. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until a tester inserted comes out clean.
  8. Let the doughnuts cool in the pan for about 5 minutes. Then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Prepare the Oreo Vanilla Frosting.

How to Make Oreo Vanilla Frosting 

  1. Mix the cream cheese and butter to a large bowl until well combined. Add the vanilla extract and mix in. Gradually add the confectioners’ sugar and mix in until well combined.
  2. If frosting is too thick, add some milk or cream, a tablespoon at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. Frost donuts.
  3. Immediately sprinkle the Oreo crumbles on top, as many as you want.

Baked Oreo Donut Tips

  • Just like muffins and quick breads, you don’t want to over mix your donut batter.  The results won’t be fluffy and tender if you over mix!  Just keep repeating to self , seven times in a row…*Don’t Overmix! Don’t Overmix!, etc…*  It works!
  • In addition, you should sift your cocoa powder if it’s lumpy.  Cocoa powder can be quite lumpy right out of the can, which can lead to over-mixing the donut batter. Therefore, kind of like de ja vu, which we just covered in the last paragraph. 🙂 
  • Here are a few more tips if you want to read up on Quick Bread Tips.  
  • For the frosting, you could also use pre-made vanilla frosting right out of the tub, if you’re in a pinch or want a short-cut, but I love these donuts with this recipe!

Storing Donuts

  • Store baked donuts in an air tight container at room temperature for up to 2-3 days.  They are best eaten the same day they are made!  

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And since you’re an chocolate Oreo fan, you’ll love these 9 OREO Desserts for OREO Addicts!

But for now, let’s enjoy these Fluffy Oreo Chocolate Cake Donuts!  Chocolate makes the world go round! 

More Delish Donuts!

Fluffy Oreo Chocolate Cake Donuts

Fluffy Oreo Chocolate Cake Donuts

Kim Lange
Moist and fluffy, addicting, melt-in-your mouth Oreo Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosted Chocolate Cake Donuts are the way to go for a decadent, sweet rush of heavenly YUM! Enjoy with your coffee or the old-school milk and cookie love!
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Cook Time 8 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Servings 24 donuts
Calories

Ingredients
  

Fluffy donuts

  • ½ cup unsweetened Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar of choice
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs beaten
  • ¾ cup almond milk or milk
  • ¼ cup vanilla Greek yogurt or sour cream
  • 2 teaspoons chocolate or vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons butter melted

Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting w/Oreos

  • 2 tablespoons butter softened
  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk of choice or cream optional
  • Oreo crumbles for top of donuts

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Grease a doughnut pan and set it aside.
  • Sift the cocoa powder into a large bowl, then add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and whisk all together. Set aside.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, yogurt or sour cream, and chocolate or vanilla extract. Add in the melted butter and whisk until combined.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir them together until just combined.
  • Take a large ziplock, snip an inch hole in corner and spoon the batter into the bag, then pipe the donut dough into the greased doughnut pan filling each well about 3/4 of the way full. You can also use a spoon, or a pastry bag to do this as well.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until a tester inserted comes out clean.
  • Let the doughnuts cool in the pan for about 5 minutes. Then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Prepare the Oreo Vanilla Frosting.

Oreo Vanilla Frosting

  • Mix the cream cheese and butter to a large bowl until well combined. Add the vanilla extract and mix in. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar and mix in until well combined.
  • If frosting is too thick, add some milk or cream, a tablespoon at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. Frost donuts.
  • Immediately sprinkle the Oreo crumbles on top, as many as you want.

Notes

Store in an air tight container at room temperature.
You could also use pre-made vanilla frosting out of the tub for these donuts if you're in a pinch or want a short-cut, but I love these donuts with this recipe!
Keyword baked donuts, cream cheese frosting, donuts, Oreos
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20 Comments

  1. Yes, you can use whatever vanilla extract you wish. It makes 2 dozen, so if you want to halve it, feel free by moving the slider over to how many servings you want! Enjoy!

  2. How many donuts does this recipe make?

    I don’t have Nielsen Massey Vanilla Extract. Can I use McCormick Vanilla Extract?

  3. I agree Heather! More Oreos and more obscene in the best way! That’s what we are going for! 😀 I haven’t seen the voodoo or psycho donuts, so I will have to check them out!

  4. Love the color on these doughnuts. So much like oreos. Baked doughnuts are always the way to go in summer. Who needs to stand next to a hot stove on a hot day anyways? The crushed oreos on top adds a nice a crunch and finish. NOMNOM

  5. I have to agree 100 percent. Chocolate really does make the world go ’round! I can’t imagine my life without it :). These donuts sound so completely to-die-for! I’m eating oatmeal right now and pretending it’s a chocolate donut! Have a great week, Kim!

  6. These look so creamy and delicious Kim?? That creamy frosting and those chopped oreos on the top are just awesome?? Definitely need to try these! Have a great start to the week! Take care ?

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