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apple cider doughnuts

Apple Cider Doughnuts

Stacy
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Resting Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups apple cider
  • 7 cups all purpose flour
  • 1⅓ cups brown sugar, packed
  • tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp all spice
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • ¾ cups butter, melted and cooled
  • vegetable oil for frying

Coating

  • cups white sugar
  • Tbsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

  • In a medium saucepan, heat apple cider to boiling, then simmer for about 10 to minutes to reduce to half
  • Remove from heat and let cool completely.
  • In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and all-spice. Set aside
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together cooled apple cider, eggs and cooled butter.
  • Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix together until a sticky dough forms and all the flour has been incorporated. 
  • Cover and refrigerate 1-½ hours or overnight.
  • Place 3 to 4 inches of oil in a large heavy pot and heat to 325°F. 
  • Remove from the fridge and working with ¼ of the dough at a time, roll out on a clean floured surface to ½” thickness.
  • Cut into doughnuts using a floured doughnut cutter.
  • Once oil is heated, place 3 or 4 doughnuts in the oil and fry 2-3 minutes per side
  • Remove from oil and place on a cooling rack over a baking pan or paper towel lined pan.
  • Cool slightly before coating in cinnamon sugar. 
  • Repeat with remaining doughnuts. 
  • Serve warm

Coating

  • Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a flat bottomed bowl. Set aside for covering hot doughnuts.

Notes

*The doughnut holes take only about 1-1-½ minutes per side to cook.
Another way to coat the doughnuts is by placing the cinnamon and sugar in a paper bag. Then toss the warm doughnuts in and shake. 
Keyword Apples, Doughnuts