Put away those 7-11 powdered doughnuts, you can now make your very own easy and delicious Old Fashion Doughnuts. A great breakfast treat for your Easter brunches.
Ingredients
2 cups Cake Flour
½ cup all purpose flour, plus more if necessary
1½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt
¾ tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
½ cup cane sugar
2 tbsp unsalted butter
2 egg yolks
⅔ cup greek yogurt
2-3 cups of vegetable oil, enough for frying
powdered sugar for garnish
Directions
In a medium bowl, whisk the cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, sea salt, nutmeg and cinnamon until combined.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, or other large bowl, whip the sugar and butter together until mixed. Add in the egg yolks and continue whisking. Finally add in the Greek yogurt and continue whisking until the mixture is smooth.
Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and fold until it forms a dough. Empty the dough onto a clean, lightly floured surface. If the dough is too sticky to handle, continue adding flour about ¼ cup at a time until it forms a firm, slightly sticky dough. I think by the end I likely added another ½ cup of flour in. For this step, I prefer to use all purpose flour because adding more cake flour makes the dough too sweet.
Using a rolling pin (or a wine bottle if you're me) roll out the dough into a square. It should still be about an inch thick. Cut the doughnuts out using a doughnut cutter, or, if you don't have one, you can use a pint glass to cut the big circle and the opening of a wine or other similar bottle to cut out the middle. Set the cut doughnuts aside to prepare for frying. Continue kneading the leftover dough back into itself and cutting out doughnuts until you have no dough left. You can choose to work the middle circles back in, or you can set them aside as well and fry as doughnut holes. You should have 8-12 doughnuts by the end.
In a large, heavy bottomed pot, heat the oil until it reaches 375 degrees. If you don't have a thermometer, you'll know it's ready if flour sizzles in it. You can also test it with one doughnut hole and see if it floats when dropped in.
Fry the doughnuts no more than two at a time for about 1 minute on each side until they turn a golden brown color. Remove the doughnuts from the oil and place onto a drying rack. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the doughnuts and you're done!
Recipe by Almost Like Mom's at https://www.almostlikemoms.com/easy-old-fashioned-doughnuts/