I’ve made baked old fashioned doughnuts before. They were delicious, but I wanted to try making real deal old fashioned doughnuts, frying and all.
You guys, these do not disappoint. Get over your fear of frying, because homemade old fashioned doughnuts may be even better than the ones I waited in line for at a local shop.
Classic Old Fashioned Doughnuts
- Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Yield: 14 doughnuts plus holes 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 5 eggs yolks
- 1 3/4 cups sour cream
- 4 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- canola oil for frying
for the glaze
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- dash salt
Instructions
- in the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment cream together the sugar, butter, and egg yolks until light and fluffy – about 2 minutes
- add sour cream and blend until smooth
- whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg, and then with the mixer on low speed, add by the spoonful to the wet ingredients
- blend until the dry ingredients are fully incorporated
- scrape dough into a well greased bowl, then cover with greased plastic wrap; chill for at least 1 hour
- once chilled, place dough on a well floured surface, lightly dust the dough with flour, and roll to 1/2 inch thickness
- dip doughnut cutter into flour and cut doughnuts
- place doughnuts on a parchment lined baking sheet and chill for 30 minutes
- in a large pot set over medium heat, heat a few inches of canola oil to 340 degrees – stir often to ensure even heating
- fry 1 or 2 doughnuts at at time (do not crown pot) fry 1 minute, flip and fry for another minute, then flip once more and fry 1 minute
- remove from the oil using a slotted spoon and drain on a rack set over a rimmed baking sheet
- while doughnuts cool, whisk together the ingredients for the glaze
- dunk cooled doughnuts into the glaze and then place on a rack set over a baking sheet to catch the drips
Notes
slightly adapted from chefsteps
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Doughnuts
I don’t like to use canola oil, can I use veg oil? Or if it has to be a high smoke point oil, then grapeseed?