Apple Cider and Cardamom Donuts
Freshly baked apple cider donuts are the ONLY way to start your day in the Fall. These are light and airy but packed with flavor, with a hint of cardamom!
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1.5 cups flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1.5 cups apple cider
- 4 oz unsalted butter
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup plain or vanilla yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Sugar Coating
- 2-3 cardamom pods crushed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- First, on medium heat in a saucepan, reduce the 1.5 cups apple cider into ~¼ cup apple cider to concentrate the flavor. In another pan on medium heat, melt butter until it starts to turn brown and then pour this browned butter into a bowl and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In one bowl, mix together the dry ingredients- flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking powder. In another bowl, whisk the eggs before adding reduced apple cider, brown sugar, yogurt, vanilla extract, and 2 tbsp of the browned butter (keep the extra browned butter for later!), whisking until combined.
- Gently fold dry ingredients into wet and mix until just combined and pour batter into a piping bag. Spray your donut baking sheets with oil or butter. Pipe batter into donut molds, filling them about ½-¾ to the top (save room for expansion to maintain the donut hole in the middle).
- Bake donuts for 10 minutes and then let them cool on a cooling rack. While they’re cooling, crush the cardamom pods into a rough powder, and mix with sugar and cinnamon.
- Use a basting brush to lightly brush donuts, one-by-one with remaining brown butter and dipping in the cinnamon/cardamom/sugar mixture. Place back on cooling rack and serve warm or at room temp with a glass of your apple cider.
Notes
Instead of an actual piping bag, we just cut off the corner of a zip lock bag. Works just as well!