Looking for an easy chocolate glazed donut recipe? These super fun pumpkin chocolate Halloween donuts have a homemade chocolate ganache and are decorated with plenty of colourful sprinkles! They’ll surely be a hit!

Stack of three pumpkin chocolate donuts with ganache and sprinkles.

Heading your way today with a Halloween recipe.

Yep.

I went there.

Halloween.

No, it’s not too early.

It’s just around the corner.

And what way to channel festive Halloween vibes then with pumpkin spiced donuts (actually, pumpkin chocolate Halloween donuts to be exact). This easy baked donut recipe has it goin’ on, my friends!

To me, Halloween means chocolate, pumpkins and all sorts of sweets. These baked donuts deliver just that!

And, guess what? No mixer required! Woot woot!

Ingredients Needed for Halloween Donuts

Flour
Cocoa powder
Sugar
Pumpkin Spice
Baking powder
Salt
Chocolate Milk
Melted butter
Egg
Vanilla extract
Fun Sprinkles

How To Make Them

Full details are in the recipe card below, but here are the basics:

Make your donut batter by mixing up the dry ingredients and then wet ingredients, combine and distribute into your donut pan (basically, much like you would do when making other baked goods).

Tip: Pipe or spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Do whatever works for you. For me, I just spoon the batter in and then tap the pan on a hard surface to level it out.

Donut batter in a donut pan before being baked.

Then into the oven they go!

Allow the donuts to cool fully on a cooling rack before glazing.

Glaze after they’ve cooled.

Chocolate glazed donuts on a cooling rack.

Add some fun, festive sprinkles if you like!

Chocolate glazed donuts with sprinkles on a cooling rack.

How To Make Chocolate Ganache for Donuts

What is chocolate ganache anyway?

Chocolate ganache is essentially made of two ingredients: cream and chocolate. That’s it!

Basically, the ratio is equal parts cream to milk. For these glazed chocolate donuts, use 2 ounces of 35% milk fat whipping cream (¼ cup) and 2 ounces of chocolate (56 grams).

Heat the cream in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Don’t boil, just heat through until it starts to bubble a little around the edges and it’s hot. Place chopped chocolate into a heatproof bowl and pour hot cream over top. Let sit a couple of minutes.
Slowly start to stir the chocolate into the cream.
Stir until cream and chocolate are combined and everything is nice and smooth. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before you dunk those donuts in there (full details are in the recipe card below).

Tip: Chop the chocolate well so it melts easily when the hot cream is poured over top. It doesn’t have to be chopped finely or anything, you just don’t want big chunks.

What Type of Chocolate Do I Use for Ganache?

Use a good quality chocolate and choose bar form over chips. There’s only two ingredients (chocolate and cream) so, of course, the chocolate really stands out. Use something you enjoy.

The type of chocolate you use for the ganache will impact the overall sweetness of your ganache. I love to use a semi sweet chocolate.

Aside from semi sweet, bittersweet or dark works great in ganache.

What To Do With Leftover Ganache

Like I mentioned above, I love to double the recipe for ganache. And if you want to use this recipe for something larger (like a big cake or something), you may want to make even more ganache. Just stick with the same 1:1 ratio.

Leftovers can be used on more treats, like cookies, to glaze cupcakes, over cake, ice-cream, fruit and more!

Tips for Making This Recipe

Allow these baked donuts to fully cool before glazing.
Add those fun sprinkles while the glaze is wet so they stick.
To get the glaze to set faster, pop the donuts in the refrigerator for a little bit. Though, you could dig in right away, if you like (which is what I always do).
Prefer less pumpkin spice flavour? Use just 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice.
For extra chocolate oomph, try some shaved chocolate on top of the chocolate ganache.

Pumpkin chocolate donut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles.

More Homemade Halloween Treats

If you make this chocolate glazed donut recipe, be sure to leave a comment below!