Some Friday things:
1. First, I just want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with all my friends up in the Northeast. I hope you all are safe and sound!
2. Who else is stuck with a gazillion tons of candy? Though we suspected there wouldn’t be much trick-or-treating going on in our new neighborhood, we still bought a bunch of candy. UGH, WHY?! And just as I thought, we did not get one trick-or-treater so now all that candy sits in the pantry, taunting me all day long. Damn you, candy, damn you!!
3. Every Halloween, my husband and I like to torture ourselves by carving fancy things on our pumpkins. Here is a picture of our work this year. Anybody want to guess who they are? The winner will get a virtual high five from me.
4. November 1st always depresses me. Two reasons. 1. It makes me realize that I need to start thinking about Christmas shopping (kill me now, please), and 2. Halloween month is over and I have to take down our decorations.
5. Speaking of decorations, I seriously want to put up our Christmas decorations. Like, today. I don’t want to wait until Thanksgiving. And for this, I blame Pier 1. Have you seen their Christmas decorations?!!
6. Just in case you want to keep your sugar high going, today I am sharing my apple cider doughnuts! I’ve actually never made doughnuts, but I hear apple cider doughnuts are a big thing and I am totally on an apple cider kick right now. Hubs got me a doughnut pan and it needed to be put to good use! So, these are not your traditional fried doughnut, but they are still pretty darn tasty! The apple cider isn’t too overpowering and they just taste like fall!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups apple cider
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 4 tbs. butter, at room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk (I used non-fat)
- 4 tbs. melted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon (or more, if desired)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small saucepan, boil the apple cider until it is reduced to 1/4 cup (out 15-20 minutes).
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and the sugar. Add in the eggs and mix well.
- Stir in the buttermilk and reduced cider.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and the nutmeg.
- Mix the dry ingredients in with the wet ingredients, mix just enough to combine.
- Spray a donut pan with cooking spray. Either pipe or spoon the batter into the each mold until they are about 3/4 of the way full. Bake for about 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow doughnuts to cool before coating.
- Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
- Using a pastry brush, brush the melted butter on both sides and in the middle of each doughnut. Dip and roll the doughnut in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat. Repeat with the remaining doughnuts.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Pumpkin Patches and More
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Wow! You guys seriously did a great job. I always prefer baked donuts and yours look absolutely fantastic!
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Mmmm your donuts have quite a kick my friend
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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I’m not a donut person, but I love apple cider donuts! There is something about Fall that makes me want apple cider donuts, hot apple cider or hot chocolate!! Yummy!!
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Perfect fall time doughnuts!
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Two guesses: the twilight couple du jour or Brajolina??
Love the look of those donuts….oh. my. goodness. Here’s to November being not so bad
xo
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I’m drooling over these! I have a weakness for donuts, and I want that sugary goodness in my mouth. I went to Pier 1 the other day and it was so hard to keep myself from buying every single penguin decoration in the store.
Gorgeous donuts!!!
claire @ the realistic nutritionist recently posted..Crock-Pot Balsamic & Honey Carrots
These doughnuts look fantastic! Apple cider is one of my favorite fall time treats.
Those pumpkin carvings… seriously… you two are awesome. The man looks like the wolf guy from the Twilight movies… I am not sure (I have never watched the movies… yes.. I am a loser). I guess that makes the girl from the movie too..
You and your husband could seriously do this for a living…. don’t know how much you would make… but that’s some serious talent!
Have a wonderful weekend my friend.
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Those doughnuts are gorgeous! I think we gauged the candy about right for our onslaught of trick or treaters–I’m sure you’ll find something to do with yours.
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These look amazing!! I want some!! And yes I have way too much candy leftover from Halloween because I got NO trick or treaters.
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I’m such a sucker for a pretty doughnut – these are killing me right now!!!
The first thing I thought was they were Christian Grey and Ana Steele..haha Im a 50 Shades nerd though!
Buffy and Spike, people.
By the way, those donuts look amazing!
Ding Ding! Finally someone got it, lol!
Buffy and Spike. My favourite show in the world. Grr….arg!
Great doughnuts. Love apple doughnuts. Almost as much as Spike.
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One of my faves too, Kim! Spike rocks!
How long should I bake these for if I’m using a mini doughnut pan?
Hi Jenna, I would think the time would be similar, maybe a minute or two longer.
That’s one amazing carving job right there! No idea who they’re supposed to be. But that’s just because I’m out of the loop with these things…
And these doughnuts look awesome! I wish we had apple cider over here in Germany. I guess apple juice would be almost as good.
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I am so impressed by your pumpkin. I do the triangle eyes type pumpkin carving. Seriously impressed. November 1 means Thanksgiving meal planning. I think November is my second favorite month of the year!
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baked apple cider donuts! they are on my list to make this fall season. Stephanie, yours look PERFECT! I want to jump right through the screen. Gorgeous photos too. I am a sucker for a breakfast doughnut
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These doughnuts have been on my list of things to make forever. I even bought a pan too when we got here, just haven’t gotten around to it. We are always stuck with Halloween candy too. And even more this year because the kids trick-or-treated. Hope you have a great week!
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Dang girl! Your pumpkins look perfect! Holla Buffy.
And these donuts? A wholllllle other level of awesomeness. Want.
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I enjoyed these in New England in early fall and they were outrageous! Yours look so perfect. I’d love to try your recipe!
I’ve never made nor tasted an apple cider doughnut, but maybe now is the time! Yours look DELISH…plus I have a couple doughnut pans that need dusting off
First of all I need these in my life! They look incredible! Second, you guys have some serious skills!! Buffy – great job! Last, I’m trying not to go to pier 1 because I know I will probably buy everything in the store… I’ll most likely cave soon!
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Okay, those are the most perfect looking donuts I’ve ever seen! And I have no clue who the pumpkins are supposed to be, but the male one looks like Billy Idol!
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I got to make some dougnuts. Must stop blaming that I don’t have adequate time
. Love apples and never had an apple doughnut. So I am really eager to bake some doughnuts. Mom bought quite a lot of apples and I know where I can put them to now. Great click and oh! I completely understand on clearing and packing festive decor Isn’t exactly my cup of tea. Hehehe…
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Love your donuts and it brings back memories and anticipation of going home for thanksgiving and going to the orchards. I featured these in my Friday Five over at Feed Your Soul – http://chefpeterskitchen.blogspot.com/2012/11/friday-five-vegetarian.html
Yum! I will have to try these…and it’s Buffy and Spike. Duh.
Heh! Why, Buffy and Spike of course. Now that’s some cool pumpkins. I love it! Just as I’m pretty sure I’d love those doughnuts (was that a good segue or what?
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Just ate the first doughnut. They are light and fluffy, but taste like baking powder, far from the cider doughnuts I was hoping to taste. Disappointing.
Hi, I’m sorry to hear you had a hard time with the recipe. As for the thickness, the dough shouldn’t be liquidy, so it is on the thicker side. If it seemed really thick though I would double check your measurements of the wet ingredients. As for the baking soda or powder taste, 3 things could be wrong. One is that you may have put too much. It’s one teaspoon of baking soda and 2 teaspoons of baking powder (make sure you didn’t use tablespoons). The second thing is that your dry ingredients may not have been mixed well enough prior to adding them to the wet ingredients. Sometimes it helps to sift all of your dry ingredients together first. The only other thing I could think is that your baking powder went bad.
I’m sorry it didn’t turn out for you!
These donuts look amazing and I can’t wait to try them!
And you’re Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Spike pumpkins are amazing!