Old-Fashioned Doughnuts Holes Recipe

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Light and yummy, these doughnut holes go fast! Their old-time goodness comes from mashed potatoes and buttermilk.

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Old-Fashioned Doughnuts Holes Recipe

Prep: 10 min. + chilling Cook: 5 min./batch

Yield: 52 Servings

10 5 15

Ingredients

1-1/2 cups hot mashed potatoes (mashed with milk and butter)
2 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
3 eggs
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or nutmeg
Oil for deep-fat frying
Additional sugar

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, sugar, buttermilk, eggs, butter and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; stir into potato mixture. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
In a skillet or electric fry pan, heat 1 in of oil to 375°. Drop batter by rounded teaspoonfuls into oil; fry until browned. Turn with a slotted spoon. Drain on paper towels. Roll in sugar while warm. Yield: 13 dozen.

Originally published as Old-Fashioned Doughnuts Holes in Country Woman Christmas Annual 1998, p12

Big Batch Baked Goods

We enjoy homemade baked goods for breakfast, but I don’t have time to bake each morning before school. So I devote 1 day a month to making large batches of cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, cream cheese rolls and muffins. I place them in heavy-duty resealable plastic bags labeled with the date. (They freeze for about 2 months.) On busy mornings, it’s a snap to pop a few in the microwave to warm. The kids love the fresh-baked flavor. —Lori T., New London, Texas