APPLE CIDER DONUTS

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A great fall treat! Tastes just like ones you'd buy from a pumpkin or apple farm! Yummy apple flavor, great with a cinnamon and sugar coating!

Provided by Stephanie Rae Greulich-Essex

Categories     Bread     Quick Bread Recipes

Time 1h55m

Yield 18

Number Of Ingredients 20

1 cup apple cider
¼ cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
½ cup buttermilk
3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ cup all-purpose flour, for dusting
1 cup white sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons apple cider
1 ¼ cups confectioners' sugar
⅓ cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups oil for frying, or as needed

Steps:

  • Bring 1 cup apple cider to a boil in a small saucepan; boil until reduced to 1/4 cup, 20 to 30 minutes. Cool.
  • Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add 1 cup white sugar and beat until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture until completely incorporated. Mix buttermilk and reduced cider into butter mixture.
  • Whisk 3 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg together in bowl. Add flour mixture to buttermilk mixture; stir until dough is just combined.
  • Transfer dough to a lightly floured piece of parchment or wax paper. Sprinkle dough with flour. Turn dough over onto a baking sheet and sprinkle with flour.
  • Roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness, sprinkling with more flour as necessary. Transfer dough on the baking sheet to the freezer until slightly hardened, about 20 minutes.
  • Cut cold dough using a 3-inch doughnut cutter. Gather, roll, and cut any dough scraps. Transfer cut doughnuts and doughnut holes to a second, slightly floured, baking sheet. Refrigerate doughnuts for 20 to 30 minutes.
  • Whisk 1 cup white sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon together in a bowl. Transfer cinnamon sugar to a paper bag. Whisk 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 2 tablespoons apple cider together in another bowl. Whisk 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla extract together in a third bowl.
  • Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  • Cook doughnuts and doughnut holes in batches in preheated oil, turning once, until golden brown and cooked through, about 1 minute per side. Set cooked doughnuts on paper towels to drain.
  • Shake warm doughnuts in the paper bag with cinnamon sugar, or pour cider glaze or maple syrup glaze over warm doughnuts.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 320.4 calories, Carbohydrate 64 g, Cholesterol 27.7 mg, Fat 5.9 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 3.6 g, SaturatedFat 2.2 g, Sodium 224.7 mg, Sugar 43 g

Gerald Jim
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I love that this recipe uses apple cider instead of milk. It gives the donuts a unique flavor.


Satelitko
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These donuts are the perfect way to warm up on a cold day.


Hawa Diggs
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I've made these donuts several times now, and they're always a hit. They're my go-to recipe for fall baking.


Anashe Williams
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I'm not a baker, but these donuts were easy enough for me to make. And they were delicious!


Ashonibare Ayomide
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These donuts are so good, I could eat them every day!


Emad GaminG _FREE FIRE
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I'm allergic to apples, so I substituted apple juice in the recipe. The donuts still turned out great!


Eniola Elizabeth
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I followed the recipe exactly and my donuts came out flat and dense. Not sure what went wrong.


Mwila Ngoda
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These donuts were a hit at my party! Everyone loved them.


Vikash Paswan
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I'm not usually a donut person, but these were amazing! I'll definitely be making them again.


Timothy Teye
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Perfect fall treat! The apple cider flavor really shines through.


Purnima Chaudhary
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A bit too sweet for my taste, but overall a solid donut recipe.


aadi addi
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These donuts were SO easy to make, and they turned out perfectly! My family loved them.


k hut
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My whole house smelled heavenly while these donuts were baking! They were tender and moist, with a lovely apple cider flavor.