Chocolate or cinnamon: Which doughnut tickles your fancy?

When it comes to doughnuts, we are spoilt for choice. Not only do they come in different shapes, but are glazed, powdered, iced and filled... but if you had to choose between chocolate or cinnamon, which one would it be?

Source: Alan Benson

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Homemade sprinkles

A luscious shiny glaze, topped with crunchy chocolate-flavoured AND homemade sprinkles! If you’re concerned about artificial colours, try naturally colouring your sprinkles with beetroot, spinach or carrot juice - talk about deliciously creative.

Chocolate sprinkle doughnuts Source: Petrina Tinslay

Da bomb-oloni

Bomboloni is an Italian sweet that is consumed all over Italy and they are very versatile. You can simply dust them with cinnamon or sugar, fill them up with vanilla custard or douse them in melted chocolate. Whatever you choose, make sure you make more than you think is necessary!

Doughnuts with cinnamon sugar (bomboloni) Source: Alan Benson

Choc-filled

This is what chocolate dreams are made of - doughnuts filled with a coffee-infused chocolate ganache, and covered with a delicious butter-sugar-cinnamon coating.

Chocolate filled doughnuts Source: The Chocolate Queen

Cinnamon challenge

Baked in a doughnut pan, these are quick, simple and most of all, less messy (we cannot be held accountable should some mess happen). The rapadura sugar, with its rich, slightly caramel flavour, takes them to a whole new level as well.

Cinnamon doughnuts Source: Alan Benson

Choc-chip meets Swiss meringue

These freshly made doughnuts take things to the next level of chocolate paradise, with their combination of choc-chips, chocolate meringue and a drizzle of chocolate topping.

Power puff

With their crisp golden cases and fluffy centres, these doughnuts are baked not fried and are a guaranteed crowd-pleaser—whether your crowd is of 8-year-olds or 88-year-olds.

Cinnamon doughnut puffs Source: Donna Hay

Mexican-stylin'

These doughnuts - donas de chocolate Mexicano - are made using a special filled pancake pan, but you can also make them as regular pancakes, and serve the filling as a topping. Plus, it uses actual chocolate bars that have been chopped into the batter.

Mexican chocolate doughnuts Source: Pati's Mexican Table

Pecan and coffee (buñuelos)

The Mexican buñuelo is a descendant of Spanish churros and comes in many forms: a flat stretched disc of dough, a classic ring-shaped doughnut or a simple ball. Usually scented with anise and soaked in brown sugar syrup, this twist on the recipe adds pecans and coffee anglaise to wonderful effect.

Pecan and cinnamon doughnuts Source: SBS Food