Bread & dough · Original adaptation
Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts Recipe
Soft cider-reduction doughnuts with apple butter, warm spice, and a crisp cinnamon-sugar coat.
Inspired by Holiday Baking Championship, Season 6, Episode 3
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Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts
- Prep
- 30 min
- Bake
- 12 min
- Total
- 42 min
- Makes
- 12 doughnuts
Ingredients
- 360 ml apple cider
- 240 g all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
- 75 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 90 g light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 80 g apple butter
- 60 ml buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 40 g unsalted butter, melted, for coating
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, for coating
Method
Simmer the cider in a small saucepan until reduced to 120 ml. Cool to room temperature.
Heat the oven to 190 C, or 170 C fan. Grease two six-cavity doughnut pans.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.
In another bowl, whisk the 75 g melted butter, brown sugar, egg, apple butter, buttermilk, vanilla, and cooled cider reduction until smooth.
Fold the wet mixture into the dry ingredients just until combined. Transfer the batter to a piping bag and divide it among the cavities, filling each about three quarters full.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the tops spring back. Rest in the pans for three minutes, then turn the doughnuts onto a rack.
Mix the granulated sugar and remaining cinnamon. Brush the warm doughnuts lightly with the 40 g melted butter and toss them in the cinnamon sugar.
Before you start
- This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief, not a contestant recipe or an official Food Network recipe.
- Reducing the cider concentrates its flavor without adding excess liquid to the batter.
- These are baked home-kitchen doughnuts; the episode brief did not prescribe this exact formula or method.
From the episode
Thanksgiving It My All
This adaptation starts from the episode's fall doughnuts and thanksgiving roll cakes brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
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The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
