Doughnuts!!

Recently, I read the story of Homer Price and his uncle's doughnut machine to Josh. He loved the picture of the machine and the story of the hundreds of doughnuts that it made. After that he asked me if we could make doughnuts. I told him we'd need to buy a doughnut cutter and then we could.

So, this week when we were at the grocery store we looked for one and couldn't find one anywhere. He was so disappointed and when we got home he ran and got the book and showed me this picture and asked if this is what a "doughnut cutter" looked like. I said, "Oh, Josh. I'm afraid you are going to be very disapointed. A doughnut cutter is only about the size of my hand. That is a doughnut making machine." He did look disapointed. But he was still determined that we should find a doughnut cutter and make our own doughnuts.

So, finally I found one and then we made doughnuts together when Matt had a meeting the other night. I took pictures of the process to remember our first experience of making doughnuts.

First, heat the oil to 375


In a bowl put in the flour...


salt...

baking powder and baking soda...

and ground nutmeg.

In another bowl combine the buttermilk, melted butter, egg and apple cider. I actually didn't have any apple cider so I replaced it with orange juice...it still tasted good.

wisk together the wet ingredients and add vanilla.

Add the buttermilk mixture to the dry ingredients and stir.

Put the dough on a floured surface and knead until all the ingredients are mixed well.

Flaten into a disc about 1 inch thick
Flour your trusty doughnut cutter

And cut your doughnuts

Add the doughnut to the hot oil

Let them brown on one side for about a minute or until browned.

Flip over

And while I was busy doing that I didn't realize that Aria was eating my flour.

Drain the doughnuts

Mix the sugar and cinnamon

Put the cinnamon/sugar mixture in a paper bag. Add the doughnuts to the bag and shake to coat.

Enjoy the warm doughnuts! Yum!

They were good doughnuts...not Krispy Kreme quality mind you...but yummy nontheless!

Here is the recipe:

CINNAMON-SUGAR DOUGHNUTS

Vegetable oil for frying (I used canola)

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg

1 large egg

1/2 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup apple cider

2 Tablespoons butter, melted

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup sugar mixed with 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Makes about 13 doughnuts and holes

Enjoy!

-Bek