a donutChocolate cake
also: devil's food · chocolate old-fashioned
Cocoa in the batter, not on the outside — the iced one is a different animal.
A cake ring with cocoa in the batter, glazed or sugared. Dark, dense, and sweeter than the plain cake ring on the published numbers.
The story Cited · wp-cake-doughnut
Cake donuts hold a flavour the way raised dough does not, and chocolate is the oldest of the cake flavours in an American case. USDA publishes it as its own food — "Doughnuts, cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed" — separate from the chocolate-coated plain cake donut, which is a plain ring with icing on it and a different set of numbers.
How it is done Cited · wp-cake-doughnut
Cocoa into a cake batter, dropped and fried like any cake ring, then glazed while warm.
Today Inference
The two chocolate donuts in a case — cocoa in the batter, or chocolate on the outside — get confused constantly, including by people selling them.
The particulars
| dough | cake |
|---|---|
| finish | glazed |
| region | The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
On the label
| what was read | usda |
|---|---|
| pepper or chile | ? |
| vinegar | ? |
| butter or oil | ? |
| tomato | ? |
| sugar | ? |
| soy donut | ? |
| mustard | ? |
| Scoville | nobody publishes one for this donut |
Read from this page, 2026-09-17. USDA SR Legacy 174993, "Doughnuts, cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed", published per 100 g and scaled here to the portion USDA itself lists as "doughnut, medium (approx 3" dia)" — 42 g. No ingredient list is published for these generic rows, so the ingredient ranks are null. A shop's own donut is not this donut; this is the closest published measurement of the kind. Every donut measured is on the donut page.
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Where we got it
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.