Homemade doughnuts are easy to make and much cheaper than buying them at the store. A fresh homemade doughnut is delicious and your kids can help decide how to frost them; sprinkles, powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, or chocolate frosted (my favorite). This recipe for cake donuts can be made from start to finish in about 30 minutes. Perfect for a special breakfast!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 quart oil for frying
- optional – powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar mixture
Mix together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon.
Add butter.
Then mix in egg and milk. I had my mixer on low for 3 to 4 minutes. I stopped when the dough looked like this… oh, this is why I love having a laptop. Most of my recipes are on the computer. I just unplug it and take it into the kitchen to cook!
While you are mixing, start heating your oil to 375 degrees.
Roll out on a floured surface until your dough is about 1/4 inch thick. Then use a doughnut cutter, or if you don’t have a doughnut cutter you can use a pub style glass and a baby food jar to make the doughnut shape.
Prepare an area for your doughnuts to cool. Because of the oil, I used paper shopping bags with paper towels on top. This made clean up very easy.
Drop the doughnuts into the hot oil
Fry for about 1 minute on each side, or until they are golden brown.
Place them on your paper towels to cool and then top while they are still warm. We used a variety of toppings, chocolate frosting, powdered sugar, glaze, and cinnamon and sugar. They were all delicious, not that I tried every single one, of course!
Don’t forget to fry up your “holes” too. They cook very quickly and taste great. After they are done cooking put them in a paper bag with cinnamon and sugar and shake to coat. I don’t have any pictures because they didn’t last long enough!
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yummy!! Now I am hankering for some!
Thanks for sharing!
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After reading your other post about going to the gym, this just seems wrong. Lol! But, they look so good. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Yummy. These look so good!
I’ve always wanted to try home made donuts. You’ve inspired me now
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It is so NOT fair to share this recipe. They look so delicious and I know I’m going to have to make these now. So much for losing 5 pounds before Thanksgiving.
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Your post grabbed my attention out of all the others because of the word doughnuts…. I wish it wasn’t 11:30 at night because I would love to go in the kitchen and make these right now!
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These look yummy! Krispy Kreme competitors for sure : ).
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Glad my kids won’t be seeing this blog. LOL.
Thanks for sharing – pictures and all!
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OK, these are the SECOND easiest donuts ever. My mom taught me this trick many moons ago. Get a can of refrigerated biscuits. (Not the ones with a million layers) Use a donut cutter or an old pill bottle to cut the holes. Fry in oil, then shake in a paperbag full of sugar. Must be eaten hot. SOOOOOOOO good!
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Oh, yum! We love doughnuts, but I don’t make them for the same reason. I just got an applesauce doughnut recipe, so I’m going to try that this weekend.
Thank you for sharing!
Happy WFMW!
Sherry
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Thanks for dropping by my blog. I hope your kids enjoy the photo books!
P. S. I’m still not letting my kids see that picture of doughnuts!
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Now I’m jonesin’ for Krispy Kreme!!! That recipe looks easy…thanks for sharing. And I love your high-tech donut cutter.
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mm.. donuts.. I think we all deserve to treat ourselves with a good donut every now and then. I love home made ones and your recipe looks great to me(to judge also from the pics…)… thanks for sharing!
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I don’t know whether I love you or hate you.
I’ll ponder it while I check to see if I have all the ingredients….
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I will have to try this thanks. When my kids were little I use to use can biscuits to make like this.
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These look great… I wonder if I can modify for a gluten-dairy free version. That will be interesting!
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Hello! I just found your blog, and as I was reading, I found this donut post. I had to smile because I was just doing the same thing yesterday: making donuts with a loptop-recipe on the counter. ; ) Yours look good too. I only did a couple of toppings, and I like the variety you tried.
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Me and my 10 year old dd went to visit my brotherman and his family in Oct. and we went to pick apples at skytop orchard, my SIL and I stood in line for 45 minutes I know to get apple cider doughnuts. These things were great they were made 2 at a time and they used a mix from a bag and added hot apple cider to it.
It was the first time I had ever been to an apple orchard and I am cherishing the memories and ready to go back in 2010.
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