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Spiced Cake Doughnuts Recipe

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As part of our family’s Halloween tradition, I make these delicious frosted doughnuts to serve with warm, spiced cider. Grated apples give them a scrumptious flavor and texture. —Katherine Nelson Centerville, Utah

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Spiced Cake Doughnuts Recipe

Prep: 30 min. + chilling Cook: 5 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 22 Servings

30 5 35

Ingredients

1/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground mace
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup grated peeled apples
Oil for deep-fat frying
BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING:
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
Colored sprinkles

Directions

In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and mace; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in apples. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. doughnut cutter. In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375°. Fry doughnuts, a few at a time, until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels.
In a small saucepan, bring brown sugar and butter to a boil. Cook and stir for 1 minute or until slightly thickened. Pour into a small bowl; let stand for 10 minutes. Add cream; beat until smooth. Gradually add confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, beating well after each addition until frosting achieves desired consistency. Frost doughnuts; top with sprinkles. Yield: 22 doughnuts.

Originally published as Spiced Cake Doughnuts in Taste of Home October/November 2006, p41

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

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Reviewed on Oct. 11, 2012 by pinkiepie

My family loved these!!!!! I am going to make them when my parents come to visit. My 6 year old could not get enough of them. I put the left overs in a bag and she ate them all week before school. I did put some in cinnamon and sugar and frosted the others never put sprinkles on them. My husband who hates frosting even liked the frosting.

Reviewed on Oct. 04, 2012 by Cake2939

I was looking for a spice cake doughnut recipe, and I stumbled across this. They looked so YUMMY. Here is a little tip, for the 1/2 cup buttermilk, if you do not have buttermilk, don't worry. Add 1 Tablespoon to the 1/2 cups of regular milk, and wait about 5 minutes. It gives the acid that the baking powder and baking soda need to make the doughnuts "puff" up slightly when you fry them.

Reviewed on Sep. 20, 2012 by pinkiepie

Can you make the batter the nigh before or would that be too long?

Reviewed on Oct. 31, 2010 by Kayla Sue

We LOVED these donuts. A bite of these sure beats Dunkin' D's anyday! I lost this recipe, but I'm so glad to have found it again. I'm goign to make them the day after thanksgiving when we are putting up our Christmas tree :D

Reviewed on Apr. 12, 2009 by plnemec

Reviewed on Dec. 24, 2008 by blessedwoman__SoOregon

I just made these Christmas Eve. They are awesome. I did not frost them, just cinnamon-sugar and powdered sugar. I will use the frosting recipe for a cake.