Peppermint Hot Chocolate Donuts

This is the time of year when limited edition goodies are out. The new lattes, the mint chocolate everything -- the...donuts? (P.S Don't forget I made Candy Cane Cheesecake Brownies!!!!) (P.P.S I installed a new feature on the website so you can pin/tweet/facebook my recipes and photos easier! What do you think??)

Well if you live in Canada then you know Tim Hortons. OH TIM! How I owe so many of my successful early classes to you. You with your reliable favourites and sadly gluten everything. Well I saw some of their holiday donuts and the chocolate candy cane one caught my eye. I swooned, I fell so hard I could barely see straight! But I knew for certain one thing was true: that donut would lure me in, it would whisper sweet nothings in my ear and then it would tear me up from the inside out!


So while that seems lovely in everything, let us instead take a more, ahem, gentle approach:

A yes...a soft, moist, rich velvety chocolate donut with a chocolate mint glaze and all the sprinkles a gal could ask for. Without the tummy ache. Sorry, Tim...I win this time!

The fluffiness of these donuts are something I have never before experienced. They are SO soft, fluffy and delicately sweetened. Ahhh....all that, and vegan too. How kind of you, little donuts. I appreciate you.

DO YOU SEE THAT SOFT BOUNCY TEXTURE!?

Plain is beautiful but those Tim's donuts have a gorgeous chocolate glaze and candy candy topping. And so, too, will mine. 

Because I never liked simple, anyways. Although if you want to forgo the chocolate, that's okay, too....I guess.

In the end they are beautiful whichever way you want them!

So while I dive into one of these bad boys with a warm cup of almond milk, I cannot emphasize enough how much you MUST MAKE THESE. You simply must. Really. 

Candy Cane Cheesecake Brownies

I know what you are thinking -- Girl, calm down it isn`t even December!

To which I would reply -- I DON`T CARE I DO WHAT I WANT!


And what I want is chocolate mint EVERYTHING. Sorry pumpkin pie spice but this basic girl has officially replaced you with chocolate mint. Dark, rich, with that perfect coolness. Ahhh...that is the stuff.

And to commence this chocolate mint obsession (which in my case, never really ended anyways) are these healthy, delicious, wonderfully cakey and moist Candy Cane Cheesecake Brownies!

If you don`t want to veganize them simply use eggs and dairy cream cheese and normal ordinary whipped cream to top. On the opposite side of things you can use egg replacer, vegan cream cheese and coconut whipped cream.

Whichever way you choose is delicious. And most importantly full of amazingly wonderful chocolatey goodness.

Further, I don`t think it`s too early to get my Christmas on. First of all, it`s snowing in Canada. Second of all, it`s freezing. Third of all, Starbucks has it`s red cups out.

So it`s pretty much the holidays.


I promise, promise PROMISE you these are super easy to make and probably the most rich, dense and chocolatey brownie in the world. They are cakey and soft and go down like a dream and that candy cane love on top just elevates it all to another planet. I`m talking about COMET LEVEL BROWNIE GAME. If you listen to that recording of the noise the comet makes I am pretty sure there are talks of these brownies. No joke. Just try it!

Enough babbling though....once you see how healthy and easy these are you will have them for breakfast. Don`t judge me if I do!