apple donuts

Ingredients

• Servings: 18
• doughnuts:
• 1 cup apple
• 1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, for dusting
• sugar coating:
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• glaze:
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons apple
• maple syrup glaze:
• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups oil for frying, or as needed

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 55 mins


• bring 1 cup apple 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 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 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 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 glaze or maple syrup glaze over warm doughnuts.