Halloween Carrot Doughnuts
From cuzpat 14 years ago
- 3 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Found this online and it sounded good! and here what it say Halloween is the time to make good use of October's rich harvest of fruits and vegetables. These carrot doughnuts can be made a day ahead of your dinner or party and stored in foil ot other wrap. Read more See less
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, unsifted shopping list
- 4 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon shopping list
- 1 teaspoon soda shopping list
- 3/4 teaspoon each of salt, ground nutmeg and ground cloves shopping list
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 1/3 cup milk shopping list
- 1 cup finely-shredded or coarsely-grated carrots shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel shopping list
- salad oil for frying shopping list
- glaze ( recipe Follows) shopping list
- about 1/3 cup finely chopped walnuts shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Combine 1 1/2 cups of the flour with the baking powder, cinnamon, soda, salt, nutmeg and cloves; set aside.
- 2. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, best the butter and sugar together until they are evenly blended. Add the eggs one at a time,
- beating each addition until the mixture is light and fluffy. With the mixer on medium speed, gradually add the flour mixture alternately
- with the milk, mixing just until it is smooth. Stir in the carrots, orange peel and 1 1/2 cups more of the flour just until it is all
- blended.
- 3. Turn the soft douogh out on a cloth ot heacily floured board and pat or roll it to a 1/2 inch thickness. Cut the dough with a 3 inch doughnut cutter, dipping it in flour as necessary to pervent sticking.
- 4. In a deep saucepan heat 2 inches of salad oil to 375 degrees on a deep frying thermometer. Lower 2 or 3 doughnuts at a time into the
- oil.As they rise to the surface, turn them over. Cook the doughnuts,turning them until they are browned on both sides, about 3 minutes,
- Lift them from the oil with a slotted spatula or two-tined fork.
- Drain them on paper towels.
- 5. Set the doughnuts on a rack placed over a baking sheet; spoon 2teaspoons of glaze over each; sprinkle with walnuts. Makes about 2
- dozen.
- GLAZE:
- Combine 2 cups unsifted powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons each of orange juice and grated carrots, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Stir until smooth.
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This recipe looks and sounds pretty good! A girl's gotta have her doughnut, coffee in the morning heh?!
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wow this is really good thanks!!!!
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I love carrots cake! and would just love these!
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