Chocolate Donut Holes

For Christmas, my sister gave me a basket full of goodies for the kitchen, including a cake pop pan.
For some reason, I haven't made cake pops yet...hello? what am I waiting for?! But I did use my pan the other day to make....donut holes! Munchkins if you are a DD fan.

Turns out, big black balls do not photograph all that well.  Who knew?  Thank goodness we had strawberries with our donuts (or is it doughnut?) balls holes. 

Chocolate Donuts

adapted from Buns in my Oven, my changes in italics

1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup stevia (for baking)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
6 tablespoons plain yogurt*
1/4 cup (skim) milk
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted*

For the glaze:
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
6 tablespoons fat free half and half milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, stevia, sugar, cocoa powder,and baking soda.
• In a separate bowl, beat together the vanilla, egg, yogurt, milk, and oil.
• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
• Spoon into your sprayed cake pop pan (or you can use a regular or mini donut pan, or mini muffin pan). 
• Bake for approx. 8 minutes (depending on what pan you are using) or until the tops spring back when you touch them. (You can't do this with the cake pop pan. I just stuck a toothpick in the hole in the top to see if it came out clean.)
• Let the donuts cool in the pan before glazing.

To make the glaze:

*I didn't read my directions and just mixed the ingredients together and dipped my donuts in.  I think had I heated it as suggested, they would have gotten the nice crunchy glaze pictured in the original post.  My glaze kind of soaked into the donut.
In a small saucepan over low heat, combine the sugar, milk, and vanilla until well combined. Remove from the heat. Dunk the donuts in the glaze and place on a wire rack to set.

*NOTES - I subbed out the sour cream for yogurt and the vegetable oil with coconut oil.  Therefore, the texture of my donut was not nice and dense and cake-y...it was more light and sponge-y. Next time, I will throw some more fat in there :-)  The flavor was very good however.

As you can see from the above pic, I had enough batter to make a few mini donuts as well. Everything is just better in mini size I think. Well, almost everything...