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Four apple cider doughnuts.
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5 from 2 votes

Apple Cider Doughnuts

Fresh, warm doughnuts coated in cinnamon sugar and filled with apple flavour. These Apple Cider Doughnuts melt in your mouth and will make you want more.
Prep Time40 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Resting Time1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Apples, Doughnuts

Ingredients

  • 4 cups apple cider
  • 7 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1⅓ cups brown sugar, packed
  • tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp all spice
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • ¾ cups butter, melted and cooled
  • vegetable oil for frying

Coating

  • cups white sugar
  • Tbsp cinnamon

Instructions

  • In a medium saucepan, heat apple cider to boiling, then simmer for about 10 minutes or until reduced to half.
  • Remove from heat and let cool completely.
  • In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and all-spice. Set aside.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together cooled apple cider, eggs and cooled butter.
  • Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix together until a sticky dough forms and all the flour has been incorporated. 
  • Cover and refrigerate 1-½ hours or overnight.
  • Place 3 to 4 inches of oil in a large heavy pot and heat to 325°F. 
  • Remove from the fridge and working with ¼ of the dough at a time, roll out on a clean floured surface to ½” thickness.
  • Cut into doughnuts using a floured doughnut cutter.
  • Once oil is heated, place 3 or 4 doughnuts in the oil and fry 2-3 minutes per side.
  • Remove from oil and place on a cooling rack over a baking pan or paper towel lined pan.
  • Cool slightly before coating in cinnamon sugar. 
  • Repeat with remaining doughnuts. 
  • Serve warm.
  • Store cooled doughnuts in an air-tight container.

Coating

  • Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a flat bottomed bowl. Set aside for covering hot doughnuts.

Notes

*The doughnut holes take only about 1-1-½ minutes per side to cook.
Another way to coat the doughnuts is by placing the cinnamon and sugar in a paper bag. Then toss the warm doughnuts in and shake.