Orange-Buttermilk Cake Doughnuts with Chocolate-Orange Glaze

For the doughnuts:
Preheat oven to 400 F.

Spray a doughnut pan lightly with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk together melted butter, buttermilk and egg. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together cake flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, orange zest and salt. Pour dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir to combine.

Spoon batter into the doughnut pan wells so they’re about two-thirds of the way full. Bake for 8-12 minutes, or until the tops of the doughnuts spring back when lightly touched. Then remove them from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for a minute or two. Then turn them out onto a cooling rack with wax paper underneath and cool completely.

To make the glaze: Combine all of the glaze ingredients in a shallow bowl. Then microwave them for 10 seconds at a time, stirring between, and continuing until melted.

Dip cooled doughnuts into the glaze (or spoon it over the doughnuts) and return the doughnuts to the cooling rack to dry.

Doughnuts are best served the day they are made.

Adapted from Not So Humble Pie.