Everything Nice Doughnuts

[chasingtides]

Autumn is wonderful in New England. It means trips to the apple orchards and cider doughnuts with hot spiced cider. It means pumpkin pies and apple tarts and caramel apples and candy corn and sweet pears. This is a recipe for autumn.

I couldn't find my doughnut pan, so I baked them in mini-bundt pans. Either one would work. Be sure, however, to use canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling. You only want the pumpkin goodness, nothing else!

Everything Nice Doughnuts

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 tsp allspice
2 tsp ginger (option)

1 egg, beaten
1 can pumpkin
1/3 cup apple cider
2 tablespoons oil
1/3 cup maple syrup (or apple butter)
1/3 cup honey

Topping:
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp nutmeg

Mix together dry ingredients, except topping. In a separate bowl, mix wet ingredients. Slowly add wet ingredients to the dry mixture. Mix thoroughly. (Dough should be a somewhat offensive orange color.) Mix together the topping in a separate dish.

Spray pans (whether mini-bundt pans or doughnut pans) or rub lightly with oil. Sprinkle topping lightly in the greased pans before filling the pans half-way with dough (allow space for rising). Bake at 400 F for 7 - 9 minutes.

If necessary, clean out pans and recoat with oil and sugar mixture and bake the next round of doughnuts.

This recipe produces 15 good-sized doughnuts when made in bundt pans. In a doughnut pan, there would be even more. (Alternative: glaze with gingered sugar.)

Comments

[lucythedragon.livejournal.com]

I'm silently weeping over here. I want a New England Autumn so bad. It's my favorite time of year, but most of the trees in the Pacific Northwest are coniferous so we don't get that vast color-change; but I do love the weather. So far as I know, Georgia remains muggy. Le pout. I shall live in New England one day. ONE DAY!

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

MAKE THEM ANYWAY. They taste like New England and they're good for you! (Well, as good as bread is, anyway.) Don't tell me you don't have cider & pumpkins in the Pacific Northwest? I shall cry if that is true.

[lucythedragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have all that stuff in the PACNO; we just don't have the trees! I'm in Georgia now though, so I'm not certain how things are done in Savannah. I expect there will be a lot of haunted carriage rides and graveyard strolls, but as for cornucopias and all that it would be a bit strange to do it when it's ninety-eight degrees outside. Though weather doesn't stop people from putting Christmas trees up in Hawaii.

And if I had the money to buy real food I WOULD MAKE THE SHIT OUT OF THESE DONUTS.

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

I might need to mail you homemade foods for Mishamas.

[juliet316]

Printed this up and also memming

[callie-828.livejournal.com]

Autumn is wonderful in New England. It means trips to the apple orchards and cider doughnuts with hot spiced cider. It means pumpkin pies and apple tarts and caramel apples and candy corn and sweet pears.

This is possibly the most depressed I have been since I moved to Paris. WHY MUST I MISS FALL IN NEW ENGLAND? DDDDD:

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

Today, in New England Autumn, I had a lovely day, followed by a sudden drop into sub-Arctic temperatures the moment the sun was eaten by the gian New England Dire Wolf around 4:40 p.m.