OLD FASHIONED CAKE DOUGHNUTS - How to make CAKE DONUTS Recipe

Welcome to Foods 101 .

I'm Ronda .

And today I'm going to show you how to make these old fashioned cake doughnuts .

And let me tell you they are delicious .

But to get this doughnut assembled and get it together , you're gonna need four cups of all purpose flour , one cup of sugar , two eggs , 1/4 of a cup .

This is an unsalted melted butter , one half teaspoon of nutmeg , 1.5 teaspoons of salt , four teaspoons of baking powder , not baking soda but baking powder .

And here we have one cup of milk at room temperature .

And when we get this doughnut assembled , I'm gonna show you how to make this really delicious glaze .

After we , you're also gonna need um about 2 to 3 cups of vegetable oil .

That's what I'm using today to fry these doughnuts in .

But you may use canola oil if um you have canola oil on hand .

So um it'll be up to you .

But now to get this started , we're gonna go ahead in this bowl , add your sugar into a medium large bowl and your baking powder along with your salt and your nutmeg .

And you wanna take this t whisk , you're just gonna whisk it around till you get it really well incorporated .

Doesn't take much .

Next .

We're gonna add the melted butter with the two eggs .

Now , I crack my eggs in a bowl before I add it to the mixture to make sure I've got a nice fresh egg .

That way , you're not gonna ruin your whole batter if you get a bad egg in the bunch .

But it's very rare .

I don't ever think I've really come across a bad egg and then I've got one cup of buttermilk we're gonna add in here .

Wow .

If you haven't had homemade cake doughnuts , let me tell you , you're in for a big surprise and you don't think they're gonna be too easy to make , but to tell you the truth , they're pretty easy and also a lot of fun .

Next , we're gonna add about three cups of the four cups of flour .

Now , I use a spoon .

I believe it would get stuck in the whisk because the batter gets a little thick and you're just gonna incorporate all this very , very well .

Now , if you find your dough to be very sticky or wet , um , you may use like one half cup of flour at a time because we're gonna need additional flour to roll out , take doughnut batter .

All right , mine's needing a little bit more flour .

So I'm adding about a half a cap .

Uh , that was probably a little bit more than a half a cup .

It should be looking a little , something like this kind of coming loose away from the bowl that you're mixing in .

And I'm gonna need just a little bit more flour and this will do it .

Here is the places wrap .

Now , this goes in the refrigerator for the next one hour .

I've just taken my dough out of the refrigerator .

It's been in there about an hour and I'm only working with about half of my dough at a time .

So I'm just splitting it in two and pulling out half of my dough .

I'm just gonna flour your surface here , just generously flour your surface and , um , get your hands in the flour and roll your dough into a little ball here .

It's still kind of sticky as you can see there .

All right , let's kind of roll it in the ball and you're gonna roll this out about a half of a inch thick .

And I've got me a nice little wooden spoon here and I've marked a half of an inch , um , on the end of my wooden spoon .

That way I can know how thick my dough is before I start cutting it into rings .

All right .

Got me a rolling pin .

Hm .

Yum .

I can smell the nutmeg in these cake doughnuts .

All right .

That looks like about a half of a inch and it is , it's right there on the money .

As you can see , I'll bring it down .

Let you look at that .

See right there is my line and the do is high enough .

There you go to make the , um , the doughnuts .

I'm just gonna make sure a flower .

This is a 3.5 inch ring and I'm gonna go down in there .

It may stick the first time and make sure you get a lot of flour on it .

Let's come back over here again .

Just make another one shouldn't stick so badly that time that first doughnut is always gonna stick because your ring isn't flowered very well .

And then here we're gonna make the center , this is about one inch in diameter and just go right in here to the center of the doughnut .

OK ?

And it sticks just a little bit .

All right .

Now you're gonna fry your doughnut holes too .

And then we're gonna go ahead and cut the center of this doughnut out and see the more you do it , the more flour your utensils becoming the easier it is .

All right now , time to take these over here , put them in the oil .

So follow me and I'll show you how we're gonna fry them up and I've got my oil heated to 360 F .

Um , you can go as high as 370 you're gonna gently just add the doughnut in there and the total time in this cooking is gonna be about three minutes .

They've popped up nice and lovely and golden brown .

And now we're just gonna flip them over and look how beautiful that is .

These are gonna be yummy and they will give them about another minute and listen , you can't get a better cake doughnut than that .

Oh , my goodness , yummy .

And remember to have a tray over here where you can drain your doughnuts on .

I've got like a , a cooling rack and on top of that , I have paper towels that way we'll get all the oil off these doughnuts before we roll them in sugar and cinnamon .

Or if we just wanna put a little glaze on them and I'll be back to show you how to do it .

I've got all my doughnuts and my doughnut holes fried .

And here I've got some doughnut holes that I've dipped in just regular sugar and cinnamon .

It's about 1/4 of a , a cup of um granulated sugar and a half a teaspoon of cinnamon .

So here I'm gonna make a glaze and this is very , very simple .

We're gonna start off by two cups of powdered sugar or you could know this is icing sugar and I'm gonna add about a half a teaspoon of honey in there .

And then I've got a little bit of vanilla , I'm gonna add to it .

So there's our vanilla .

I'm gonna take a whisk and I'm gonna add a little bit of water until I get it the consistency .

The way I want it and we definitely want it smooth enough to be able to dip our donuts into .

Ok .

Now , just gonna add a little bit more water .

Now , don't overdo it on the water because you can get it too thin and then you'll be adding more powdered sugar and you'll have more glaze left than you're gonna need .

But look how beautiful that's coming along .

All right .

So next , as you noticed , I've used a large bowl here .

So next , we're just gonna take one of our doughnuts over here as you can see .

And I'm just dipping it in there and look here there .

He got a beautiful glaze on it .

I've got a cooling rack over here that I'm just gonna lie it on .

So the excess frosting can drip off .

I've got donut holes here .

Just swirl those around with the fork .

Now , if you want , you can also dip these in just regular powdered sugar and then you have your white powdered sugar , doughnut holes and put them over here .

All right .

I think I'm gonna dip another doughnut and these doughnuts feel so beautiful and light and fluffy .

Oh , I can't wait to dig in and show you one .

But look how beautiful that is .

Yeah , that's a winner .

All right .

Stick it over here and continue doing it till you have them all glazed .

I'm gonna go ahead and get a glazed doughnut hole here and I'll show you what it looks like on the inside .

Look how nice and light and eerie that is .

Mm .

Oh , yummy .

That is one killer old fashioned cake doughnut .

Mm .

Hope y'all give these a try .

I'm dina with Foods 101 .

Thanks for watching .