Krispy Kreme Chocolate Icebox Bombe

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Adding cocoa mousse, frosting and ganache to doughnuts whitethorn look similar gilding the lily, but truthful what? Pass it disconnected arsenic the past dessert of the twelvemonth and commencement your resolutions connected New Year's Day. Serve the bombe with lightly sweetened whipped pick and caller berries connected the side. To serve, chopped it successful the benignant of a wedding cake, by making a ellipse incision halfway betwixt the perimeter and the mediate earlier slicing.

Day 1 (takes 1 to 11/2 hours): Line the vessel with doughnuts, marque the cocoa mousse and capable the vessel with the mousse, screen with doughnuts and freeze.

Day 2 (1 hour): Frost the bombe and glaze with ganache.

*Note: You whitethorn substitute immoderate cocoa frosting oregon buttercream. This is the basal Hershey cocoa recipe. Its intent is to marque a creaseless aboveground connected the bombe for the ganache.

The bombe indispensable beryllium started astatine slightest 2 days successful advance. It is made successful 2 stages connected 2 consecutive days. (It tin beryllium made up to 8 days ahead.)

Adapted from cook and erstwhile restaurateur David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24

For the doughnuts

2 twelve caller Krispy Kreme doughnuts, 18 chopped successful fractional horizontally, 6 full doughnuts reserved for garnish

For the cocoa mousse

1 1/2 pounds chopped semisweet oregon bittersweet chocolate
9 tablespoons acold coffee
6 ample ovum yolks
6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
3 cups dense cream, whipped
6 ample ovum whites, beaten stiff, not dry

For the cocoa frosting

3/4 instrumentality (3 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
2 2/3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cupful Dutch-process cocoa powder
1/3 cupful full milk
1 spoon vanilla extract

For the cocoa ganache

4 cups dense cream
2 pounds semisweet oregon bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
921
Fat
66 g
Saturated Fat
34 g
Carbohydrates
80 g
Sodium
251 mg
Cholesterol
161 mg
Protein
13 g
Fiber
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from cook and erstwhile restaurateur David Hagedorn.

Tested by Tom Wilkinson.

Published March 11, 2026