Cinnamon Doughnuts
An old-fashioned cinnamon doughnuts: sweet and simple!
Servings: 12 doughnuts
Calories: 254kcal
Equipment
- doughnut cutter
Ingredients
- 1 cup lukewarm milk (250 ml)
- 3 cups plain flour (all purpose flour) (430 grams)
- 115 grams butter
- 1 egg
- ½ cup caster sugar (superfine sugar) (115 grams)
- 1 ½ teaspoons dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup icing sugar (powdered sugar) (60 grams)
- vegetable oil (for deep frying)
Instructions
- Add yeast to lukewarm milk. Sit for 5 minutes and then stir into half of the flour. Allow to stand for 1 hour.
- Cream butter and sugar well. Add the egg and mix well. Then add to the yeast mixture.
- Add the rest of the flour to the mixture and knead lightly. Stand aside till it doubles in size.
- Sift icing sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg onto a plate. Prepare vegetable oil for deep frying.
- Roll out dough to about 1.5 cm thickness. Cut out doughnut shapes using a doughnut cutter.
- Deep fry doughnuts in vegetable oil until light golden brown.
- Drain well and then roll in icing sugar mixture.
Nutrition
Calories: 254kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 37mg | Sodium: 76mg | Potassium: 77mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 293IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 2mg