Baked Doughnuts
"This is a Farm Jounal recipe from the 70's . Easy and no-fry!"
photo by jVo6236
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
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Topping
- 1⁄4 cup melted butter
- 1⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Cream shortening, sugar and eggs until light.
- Sift dry ingredients.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to creamed mixture.
- Mix well (this is a stiff dough).
- Add nuts (optional).
- Drop by tablespoonsful into well greased muffin tin.
- Bake 20 minutes.
- Mix cinnamon and sugar in a bag.
- Dip hot doughnut tops in melted butter.
- Toss doughnut in cinnamon and sugar mix.
- Serve hot.
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Reviews
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My family of 6 really loves this recipe. I do not use the chopped nuts in the batter, nor do I bake them in muffin tins. I take about 2T of batter, rolled lightly to make a ball, and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart. I reduce the cooking time. (They take 8-10 minutes in my oven.) This is a very versitle recipe. I have made these several times, sometimes substituting EggBeaters for the eggs and using half whole wheat flour. They always turn out great! I top some with the cinnamon sugar mixture,some with powdered sugar alone, and some with store-bought vanilla frosting. The frosted ones, I top with sprinkles for the kids and chopped walnuts for the adults. yummy! This is a great recipe...not at all greasy, and much healthier than the fried variety. The baked dounuts also freeze well. Just take them out, let them thaw for a few minutes, and top as usual. Thanks for posting this tasty and easy recipe! -
I gave 5 stars even though I didn't really use this recipe... I was JUST about to post a recipe SO similar to this that I decided to just tell you the differences in my version and I also uploaded the photo from my version as well. The ingredient variances were: My recipe called for 1/3 c. shortening, 1 and 1/2 c. flour, 1 and 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/4 tsp. nutmeg...(no nuts at all in mine and topping included cinnamon/granulated sugar mixture.) Oven temp 350 degrees F. Oh, and it made exactly 8 doughnuts in a standard size muffin tin. One more hint...If you're using a 12 cup muffin tin and making only one batch, pour about 2 TBS of water in the tins that don't have batter in them. I believe that helped with even baking and moisture. Just the ingredient amounts were changed. Everything else was the same. I can say that there was nothing dry about these yummy doughnuts with the ingredients I used. Hope it helps. -
The baking time and temperature are way off. I baked them at the specified 400 degrees, but had to remove them only 15 minutes later and they were already extremely dry and brittle. Boring taste, off-putting texture. Won't be making these again unless I make some drastic changes
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We didn't care for these at all. The nutmeg was overpowering, a flavor I've never had in doughnuts before. I won't be making these again. :(
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Good as a sweet bread or as muffins but taste nothing like a doughnut.
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Tweaks
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It was a really easy to follow recipe and really yummy. For anyone lactose intolerant, I substituted the milk for water and it turned out great. And the water-in-the-extra-muffin-tins trick worked really well so the doughnuts weren't too dry. Maybe a bit more milk might help with the moisture? -
My kids thought these were great, very easy to make. Followed directions exactly except for added 1t. vanilla instead of nutmeg and omitted the nuts. I baked them in mini muffin tins for about 11 min. and frosted with a choc. ganache. Thank you for the recipe
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