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Plain Cake Doughnuts

by Joyce Kohl

Plain Cake Doughnuts Source: Go Inside™
Eat plain or frost with your favorite frosting recipes
Servings: 1 Dozen Ingredients:
Cut size determines number of doughnuts.

 

Double or triple the recipe for more.

 2 cups white flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

dash of grated nutmeg

2 tablespoons melted butter

1/2 cup milk

1 whole egg, beaten

vegetable oil
Directions:
  1. Sift dry ingredients together, then add butter. Add milk to the beaten egg and pour into first mixture.
  1. Knead the mixture lightly, then roll or pat on a well-floured board or pastry sheet. Roll to 1/4 inch thick and cut out doughnuts with a doughnut cutter.
  1. Fry doughnuts in 3-4 inches of oil which has been preheated to around 360 degrees. Cook only a few at a time, turning often until evenly browned on both sides. Drain on a rack over a cookie sheet or on paper toweling.
  1. To coat with plain sugar and cinnamon, put the sugar mixture in a paper bag and shake a few doughnuts in it at a time. Doughnuts may also be frosted.

 

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Biscuit Doughnuts

by Joyce Kohl

Biscuit Doughnuts Source: Go Inside™
Not only a fast and easy way to make doughnuts, but they’re good, too!
Servings: 10 Ingredients:
10 biscuits per can

 

 

 1 Can Biscuits

vegetable oil

powdered sugar and/or granulated sugar and cinnamon
Directions:
  1. While heating about 2 inches of oil to around 360 degrees in a skillet, open the canned biscuits. Take each biscuit and force a hole in the center of each. Place them on a dinner plate or waxed paper.
  1. Start adding the biscuits to the hot oil. These will brown very quickly, so be ready to turn with tongs or a fork. When golden brown, remove and place on paper towels to drain.
  1. Roll doughnuts in plain powdered sugar or granulated sugar. For cinnamon-sugared doughnuts, add cinnamon to taste.

 

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Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

by Joyce Kohl

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts Source: Go Inside™
Frost with a Fudge Frosting or Frosting(s)
Servings: 18 Ingredients:
About 1 1/2 Dozen 1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar

2 whole eggs

4 tablespoons butter

3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate (cocoa or chocolate chips)

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

3 1/2 cups white flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

vegetable oil to fill pan 1/2 inch
Directions:
  1. Cream together sugar and eggs. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over a low heat. Add to creamed mixture.
  1. Mix vanilla extract into the buttermilk, then stir into the sugar mixture. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in the liquid mixture. Chill slightly, then roll out half the dough on a lightly floured board to 1 inch thickness and cut out doughnuts.
  1. Let doughnuts dry for 10 minutes. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet to around 360-375 degrees. Fry each doughnut about a minute and a half per side, then remove and drain on paper towels. Frost when cool.

 

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Doughnut Making Tips

by Joyce Kohl

Here are some tips and tricks on making the best tasting doughnuts possible!

Fat: What to Use and How to Use It
Vegetable fats or bland vegetable oils are the best because they heat quickly, are almost odorless and do not burn as readily as butter or margarine. Put enough fat or oil in a pan that will be about 3-4 inches lower than the rim of the pan or skillet or deep-fryer. Then heat to the correct temperature before adding doughnuts. Use caution when adding doughnuts in that you don’t lower the temperature – that is, add them slowly and not too many at a time. If the oil temperature is too low, doughnuts will absorb the oil. If the temperature is too high, the doughnuts will brown too fast and may not be thoroughly cooked in the centers.

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Mexican Mix-Up

by Joyce Kohl

Mexican Mix-Up Source: Go Inside™
Great for parties as little space is required and a minimum of serving equipment is needed.

Guests make their own selections according to personal tastes
Servings: 12 average appetites or

6 hungry appetites

 Ingredients:
Varies according to appetites

 

Recipe may be enlarged for any number of guests

 Largest bag of small bite size corn chips

1 1/2-2 pounds ground meat, sauteed and browned

then seasoned with Taco Seasoning

1 pound Cheddar Cheese, coarsely grated

1 large head of lettuce, shredded

3 or 4 medium tomatoes, diced

1 bunch green onions, sliced – using tops, too

2-3 medium avocados, diced

4 hard cooked eggs, diced

3 small cans chopped ripe olives

1 pint sour cream
Directions:
  1. Place plates, forks, napkins and ingredients (in separate containers) on a table or buffet where guests can easily pass by and serve themselves.  Food should be arranged starting with , corn chips on the bottom and proceeding through , sour cream on top.
  1. Hot taco shells can be substituted for the corn chips.
  1. Serve with a Sangria punch or any favorite punch or beverage.