Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon shortening
1 cup sour milk
6 cups flour
Original recipe makes 1 Servings
Servings
Preparation
Mix sugar, nutmeg, soda, salt, eggs, milk, and shortening. Add enough flour to roll out dough on a floured surface and cut with doughnut cutter. Heat shortening to 375 degrees F. and drop doughnuts in, turning several times. Drain on soft crumpled paper. Cool and dust with powdered sugar, or granulated sugar and or with cinnamon, or drizzle with glaze (see below) if desired. Repeat with doughnut centers.
Note: milk can be soured by adding 1 Tbsp vinegar to 1 cup fresh milk.
White Doughnut Glaze
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 to 6 Tbsp milk
Mix powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk with a fork t
o desired consistency. Thicken with powdered sugar or thin down with milk.
Basic Doughnut Recipe – baking powder doughnut
Ingredients:
- 8 cups oil for deep frying
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup sugar or artificial sweetener
- 1/2 cup milk or water
- 2 tablespoons shortening, melted
- 2 cups all purpose flour, sifted
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Pinch of cinnamon
- Pinch of nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
- Coatings, optional; powdered sugar or cinnamon and powdered sugar
how to make doughnuts
Directions
1. In an electric fryer heat the oil to 375 degrees.
2. In a bowl, beat together egg and sugar until light in color.
3. Stir in the milk/water and the shortening.
4. Add the dry ingredients into the wet mixture and stir till combined.
5. Chill the dough for about 25-30 minutes.
6. On a floured surface, flatten the dough to about 1/2 inch thickness using a rolling-pin.
7. Cut out the doughnuts using a doughnut/biscuit cutter, a knife or two different sizes of cookie cutters.
8. Allow to dry for 10 minutes.
9. Using a slotted spoon, carefully transfer the doughnuts to the hot oil.
10. Cook 2 at a time, flipping when brown on a side. Drain on towels or paper bag.
11. Dust with sugar or sugar mixture.
12. Serve warm.
Notes:
Doughnut holes: Roll dough into balls and add to hot oil;fry until golden brown.
Variations:
- Chocolate: Combine the melted shortening with 1 ounce of melted milk or dark chocolate before adding to batter.
- Glazed: Combine 1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar with 2 teaspoons warm water and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Spread
over cooled doughnuts. Add sprinkles if desired too.
- Filled: Stir 1/2 cup filling of choice until smooth. Transfer to a pastry or plastic bag and snip off one corner. Poke
doughnut with a knife and squirt in. Filling ideas could be pie filling, pudding, custard and jellies.
Healthier Baked Doughnuts
- cooking spray
- 2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar or artificial sweetener
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk (1%)
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup honey or agave nectar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 425°. Lightly coat a doughnut pan with cooking spray, or spray a cookie sheet.
2. Combine flours and remaining dry ingredients in a large bowl, whisk till combined.
3. Combine buttermilk, eggs, honey, butter, and vanilla, stirring well till combined.
4. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; mix just until combined, don’t over stir.
4. Spoon batter into doughnut pans, filling two-thirds full.
5. Bake in middle of oven until golden brown on bottom (about 8 minutes).
6. Let cool in pan slightly for about 4 minutes and then turn out.
7. Coat with toppings or glazes of choice – refer to previous recipe for ideas.
Making homemade doughnuts has never been easier, in fact you won’t even need fancy equipment or even crazy
ingredients to make copycat Dunkin doughnuts, voodoo doughnuts, top pot doughnuts or any type of fabulous
mouth-watering doughnuts. Finding a top-notch doughnut recipe is usually more difficult to decide what type of
recipe to make; regular, glazed, cream filled, jelly or custard. There are so many different types of doughnuts that
choosing which one to make is the most difficult part.
Types of Doughnuts
Apart from fillings, there are also risen doughnuts and ones that use baking powder instead. Both are considered to
be quite standard, but cake doughnuts and some fried varieties use baking powder, while the others use yeast. This
is always good to know before hand, especially if you’re just learning how to make doughnuts, because the last
thing you want is to have to wait, for a rise if you aren’t prepared for it. Just make sure you read doughnut recipes
carefully when considering which one to make.
How Healthy are Homemade Doughnuts’?
lvlost bakers and to an extent doughnut lovers, won’t take calories or the healthiness of a doughnut recipe into
consideration. The calories in a doughnut can vary, but there are ways to make them healthier. Just keep in mind
that there isn’t a doughnut under the sun that could pass for health food. Choosing baked doughnuts can help to cut
calories, and of course fat since most are deep-fried. This may be the one instance where a doughnut pan would
come in handy, but it isn’t necessary unless you really want perfect shapes. If the recipe calls, for a doughnut pan,
you can omit this step and pipe the batter onto a cookie sheet.
Healthier doughnuts will typically be cake-like, oil can be replaced with applesauce, and you can choose to omit
frosting on top. Feel free to play around with sugar amounts, you can normally scale it down without loosing a
quality result, or you could convert them to sugar-free, by choosing to use a calorie-free sweetener. lvlore options
are available than novice bakers generally realize, though it can get tricky when you start to reduce sugars in yeast
recipes. This is because yeast needs some sugar to feed off of in order for it to proof.
Customizing Doughnuts
The appeal of copycat recipes is that you can make your favorites at home, and usually for much less than it would
cost to go and buy them. It also allows the baker to personalize each batch, so if you want to reduce calories and
fat, it can be done easily. It will also allow you to experiment with new fillings, flavors or decorations. These types of
services just aren’t available at the local doughnut shop or mass doughnut makers like voodoo doughnuts.
