I Made Apple-Cider Doughnuts in My Air Fryer

Listed below are the elements I wanted for my apple-cider doughnuts.

The recipe known as for milk, apple cider, sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, gentle brown sugar, and butter.

Step one was to measure out the 2 cups of apple cider wanted.

If that looks like so much, you are proper. Half of this can get decreased when it boils on the range.

The directions had been to carry the apple cider to a boil and and scale back it to 1 cup.

The recent apple cider made my kitchen scent fantastic, and made me much more excited for my doughnuts.

Whereas that was occurring, I mixed all of the dry elements.

Particularly, here is what I wanted:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup packed gentle brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon floor cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon floor ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

So as to add a little bit texture, I used to be instructed to grate a stick of butter.

This proved to be tougher than I believed. The eight tablespoons, or one stick, of chilly butter was undoubtedly not chilly by the tip, making it onerous to grate it with out my fingers slipping round. I have to’ve washed my fingers thrice throughout this course of, simply to make them much less greasy.

The subsequent step was to mix the butter with the dry elements till the combination was the “texture of small pebbles.”

I used my fingers to mix the butter with the dry elements till it virtually regarded like sand. I do not suppose this was as “pebbly” because the recipe known as for, however I had to surrender when the butter was solely saturated with the dry elements.

This is the place it began getting actually messy. I needed to take the dough out of the bowl, discover a big flat floor, and coat it in flour so the dough would not stick.

I ended up utilizing an enormous reducing board that my dad and mom had of their kitchen. I wiped it down and proceeded to cowl it in flour, so the dough would not stick in all places. Then I added extra flour to the highest, so once I began folding the dough, it would not persist with itself.

This is me and my new satisfaction and pleasure: the flattened dough. It was able to be made into doughnuts.

After folding and folding, it was time to unfold the dough one final time. This was the ultimate product.

Not pictured: the massive mess I might made with all of the elements, all of the paper towels from my quite a few hand-washing pauses, and the a number of bowls for all of the elements. Plus, a skinny layer of flour had settled into every part.

To get the cinnamon sugar sticking to the doughnuts, the recipe advised me to dunk the doughnuts in butter, after which coat them in cinnamon sugar.

Whereas the doughnuts had been frying, I melted one other stick of butter in a single bowl, and mixed cinnamon and sugar in one other for the coating. After the doughnuts had cooled a bit, I dipped them within the butter bowl after which rolled them round within the cinnamon sugar, one after the other.

Whereas these had been tasty, they weren’t excellent. For my subsequent batch, I attempted one thing totally different.

These doughnuts simply weren’t fluffy. They tasted wonderful — I used to be actually in a position to style the ginger and apple cider within the dough, which complemented the cinnamon sugar fairly properly — however the texture wasn’t proper.

This batch had already been on the crunchier aspect, and once I left them out to settle, that they had gotten even more durable.

For the second spherical, I used a bigger glass to chop out the doughnuts, making them a little bit thicker. They turned out excellent.

Now this was what I had wished. This batch was cakey and moist, and the cinnamon sugar caught higher as nicely. My household, aka my taste-testers, agreed this batch was higher.

Regardless that these doughnuts created a small twister of sugar, cinnamon, and flour in my kitchen, I might make them once more in a heartbeat.

I’ve made air-fried doughnuts before utilizing premade biscuit dough, and whereas they had been good, they only did not style like doughnuts. These had been the right answer to my year-round apple-cider doughnut cravings, and it did not contain dunking dough right into a vat of oil.