Let's make...Buttermilk Donuts!
 
 
Easy, light, delicious buttermilk donuts tossed in spiced sugar
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Serves: 8 donuts
Ingredients
  • 2 tbsp (25g) butter
  • 2 cups (300g) plain flour
  • ⅓ cup (75g) caster sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • ¾ cup (185ml) buttermilk
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Oil, for frying (I used grapeseed, but canola or any high smoke-point oil will do)
  • 1½ cups (335g) cinnamon sugar, to toss (or just mix 1 tbsp cinnamon into 1½ cups sugar)
Instructions
  1. Melt the butter, and set aside to cool
  2. Place the flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda in a large mixing bowl.
  3. Add the egg, buttermilk, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and the cooled butter, and then stir everything together with a wooden spoon, until it forms a shaggy dough.
  4. Using your hands, bring the dough together, and then turn out onto a lightly floured surface, and pat out to just under an inch (2cm) thick.
  5. Using a 2.5 inch (7cm) cutter, cut out as many donuts as you can, and then cut out the centres using a 1 cm piping nozzle (or a bottle cap, or whatever you can MacGyver).
  6. Fill a deep, sturdy pot one-third full with oil (should be about 2-3 inches of oil) and heat to 160C/320F.
  7. Cook the donuts 2 or 3 at a time, for about two minutes on the first side, and one minute on the second, or until golden brown and cooked through. Drain the donuts on a rack.
  8. Place the cinnamon sugar on a large plate, and toss the hot donuts in the sugar. Eat (carefully) while hot!
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/dev/2015/01/lets-make-buttermilk-donuts.html