Doughnut Recipe

Homemade Cake Doughnuts

A doughnut recipe for homemade cake doughnuts made with flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla and topped with a vanilla and almond glaze. Serve them for a special breakfast or brunch.

Homemade cake doughnuts are just the thing to make on a cold winter afternoon or rainy Sunday. Your home will smell great and your family will be all smiles after biting into a hot fresh donut.

This is one of my grandmother's favorite doughnut recipes and has stood the test of time. Her original recipe was called "Wonderful Doughnuts". And they are indeed wonderful!

Don't be afraid of trying to make doughnuts from scratch! I know you can easily drive to the local bakery and buy doughnuts, but nothing beats the taste and aroma of making them yourself.

They take a little bit more time than other breakfast foods, but the results will be delicious and your friends and family will thank you.

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Cake Doughnut Recipe

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Prep Time: 15

Chill Time: 2 hours

Frying Time: 45 minutes

Ingredient List:

4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
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1 quart Vegetable Oil for frying
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Kitchen Equipment Needed

1 medium mixing bowl
1 large mixing bowl
Deep Fryer or large 12" deep frying pan or cast iron skillet
2 baking pans (for catching glaze drips)
2 wire racks (for cooling glazed doughnuts)

Instructions:

Step 1: In a medium mixing bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

Step 2: In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter. Add sugar and beat well. Add eggs and beat well.

Step 3: Add milk and vanilla and stir until combined.

Step 4: Slowly add flour mixture and mix until dough holds together. Roll into a ball.

Step 5: Cover and chill 2 hours.

Step 6: On a floured board, roll out doughnut dough to 1/3" thick and cut with a donut hole cutter.

Step 7: Heat vegetable oil in pan or deep fryer to 365 degrees and fry until lightly golden brown.

Step 8: Drain on a plate lined with paper towel briefly and then dip into the bowl of hot glaze.

Enjoy these dougnnuts warm and fresh as is or dip in a vanilla glaze and drain on a wire rack set inside of a baking sheet. (recipe below).

Vanilla Glaze:

3 cups confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)
1/3 to 1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

In a medium mixing bowl big enough to dip your doughnuts, stir together all glaze ingredients until there are no lumps. Set aside until ready to dip the hot doughnuts.

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