Applesauce Donuts – Round 1
18-Sep-2005
After watching Sylvie on Food 911, I decided to try my hand at making donuts. I especially like cake donuts and especially at this time of year. I’m having a few people over for brunch next Saturday and I thought it might be fun to have fresh donuts when they arrive. However, I was pretty certain I needed a trial run first!
Before just jumping into Tyler’s recipe, I looked at a couple other recipes but then decided to go with his and just make my own adjustments to make them applesauce instead of chocolate glazed. And I decided to make just half a recipe, since I didn’t need to be eating massive amounts of donuts today! :-)
Basically I replaced the milk in his recipe with applesauce (homemade last year) and added some cloves and nutmeg in addition to the cinnamon. The dough was really soft! Since I’d seen the TV show I thought I knew what to expect but this was even more loose than it appeared in the show. I kneaded in quite a bit of flour and got the dough to a workable consistency. However, later as I moving the donuts around from cutting board to holding pan to frying pan it turned out I should have added a bit more. They were pretty sticky and it was hard to keep them in shape as they were being moved.
The instructions in the recipe say to roll the dough out to 1/4". Well that is just wrong, I rolled it out to 1/2" and that was pretty good. The donuts will puff quit a lot when dropped into the oil but 1/4′ would have been too thin.
My 1/2 recipe made 10 donuts, easily. The full recipe says it makes 6! Something is a little off there! Plus I used the scraps to make little square puffs of dough (because, you know, 10 donuts isn’t enough for me!) :-)
Anyway, I liked how they turned out. They are cakey without being heavy at all. I’d probably add a bit more flour to the dough before letting it rest and I’m going to play a bit with the flavorings and spices but overall these are good! And relatively easy, too. Not sure yet if they will make it on Saturday’s menu. But if they don’t it’s only because I decided I needed my pre-brunch time for something else or once the menu is set they don’t seem to work. I’ll let you know next week!
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Culinary Fool 
Wow, those look sooo good. The use of the applesauce is a wonderful innovation. I am so humbled to know I inspired you. Hopefully they will come out better next time and be at hit at your brunch.
Hi Sylvie!That\’s what makes this blogging world so much fun – everyone inspires everyone else! :-) What\’s cool about having done these donuts is that now I know they are pretty easy and I\’m already planning other times I can make them. (Right now I\’m thinking holidays with the family, too!)~ B