Name: Apple Cider Doughnuts
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups apple cider; 3 cups flour; 2/3 cup packed brown sugar; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon cardamom; 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 large eggs; 6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled; vegetable oil for frying; 3/4 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons cinnamon

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Homemade Apple Cider Doughnuts will have you wishing for fall! These cake doughnuts are full of apple cider flavor and coated in cinnamon sugar.

If you love apple cider, try Caramel Apple Cider!

Good morning guys! (Or afternoon! Or evening!) I made doughnuts!

Last year I was super excited because I realized we had an apple farm, like, 15 minutes from our house. Yes, it took me 4 years to realize it.

The website advertised apple cider doughnuts and I was sold. Sure, picking apples and pumpkins sounds like fun but doughnuts? I will go pretty much anywhere if doughnuts are promised.

I’m very motivated by food.

Just like my dogs.

Anyway, we got there and the doughnuts were baked.

I know.

The kids took one bite and said, “Nope.”

And I have been thinking about real apple cider doughnuts ever since. I finally got around to making them and they are just as good as I imagined. And we got to enjoy them warm since they came right out of my kitchen.

Ingredients

Apple cider – use your favorite brand.
All-purpose flour
Brown sugar
Baking powder
Baking soda
Cardamom – you can leave it out if you don’t have it.
Cinnamon – this is going in the doughnuts and then in the cinnamon sugar mixture the hot doughnuts are rolled in.
Nutmeg
Eggs
Butter
Vegetable oil – this is for frying so you want a neutral oil that won’t burn at high heat. Vegetable oil, canola oil, or peanut oil is best for frying.
Granulated sugar – this is for coating the doughnuts after they are fried.

How To Make Apple Cider Doughnuts

Reduce cider. Bring cider to a boil and boil until reduced by about half. Cool completely.
Dry ingredients. Whisk together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Wet ingredients. Whisk together eggs, butter, and cider.
Combine. Stir into the dry ingredients.
Chill. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Make cinnamon sugar. Stir together sugar and cinnamon.
Shape doughnuts. Divide dough in half on a well floured surface. Roll each portion to ½″ thickness and cut with doughnut cutter.
Prepare oil. Heat oil to 365F.
Fry. Fry doughnuts, a few at a time, for 1 – 1 ½ minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels.
Cinnamon sugar. Toss hot doughnuts with cinnamon sugar mixture.

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Yield: 12 doughnuts