Sugared Flowered Doughnuts Recipes

SUGARED-FLOWERED DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Flowers: Whisk egg white with 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl. Working with one flower at a time, holding it with tweezers or in your fingers and using a small paintbrush, brush egg wash over surface of petals. Sprinkle evenly with superfine sugar. Transfer to a wire rack set over a baking sheet, sugared-sides up. Let stand at room temperature 12 hours.
• Doughnuts: Preheat oven to 425°F. Lightly brush two standard 6-mold doughnut pans with butter. Beat butter with both sugars, baking powder, baking soda, and salt on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, orange zest, and almond extract; beat on medium speed to combine, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Reduce speed to low; add flour in two batches, alternating with milk. Beat just until combined.
• Transfer batter to a piping bag or resealable plastic bag with a 1/2-inch hole snipped in one corner. Pipe mixture into prepared pans, dividing evenly. Bang pans several times on counter to release air bubbles. Bake until doughnut tops spring back when lightly pressed, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
• Glaze: In a bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar, orange-blossom water, and 1/4 cup water until glaze is thick and smooth and has the consistency of honey, adding more water as needed. Dip top of each doughnut in glaze (each should be halfway submerged), rotating to evenly coat. Transfer to wire rack, glaze-sides up. Top with sugared flowers while still wet; let dry completely.

BAKED CINNAMON SUGAR DONUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 9 cavities of a 12-cavity doughnut pan with cooking spray.
• Combine sugar, butter, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Add egg and mix until incorporated.
• Combine flour and baking powder in a small bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture in batches, alternating with milk, beating batter briefly after each addition. Pour batter into a large resealable plastic bag. Snip off one corner of the bag and pipe batter into the 9 prepared cavities of the doughnut pan, filling each halfway.
• Bake doughnuts in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, 7 to 9 minutes.
• While the doughnuts are baking, place melted butter for topping in a shallow bowl. Mix together 2/3 cup sugar and cinnamon in another shallow bowl. Roll warm doughnuts in melted butter and then in cinnamon sugar to coat.

SUGARED CAMPFIRE DONUTS

Steps:

• Toss together the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl, set aside. Cut each biscuit into thirds, and roll into balls. Skewer on a toasting fork, and cook over hot coals, turning constantly, until golden brown. Dip into melted butter, then roll in cinnamon sugar.

CANDIED FLOWER DONUTS

Steps:

• To prepare the edible flowers, apply sugar & egg white mixture gently on the edible flowers using a small brush.
• Sprinkle sugar over the flowers.
• Bake at 170F for 1 hour.
• To make donuts, whisk, egg, milk, vanilla, and sugar.
• Add flour.
• Zest in some lemon, add poppy seeds and mix with a spatula.
• Add melted butter, mix well.
• Pipe the donut batter into donut molds.
• Bake 350F for 15mins.
• To make donut icing, stir powdered sugar and lemon juice together.
• Dip the baked and cooled donuts, one by one, face down into the icing.
• Immediately place the candied edible flowers on top of the icing in any arrangement you wish.

SPICED SUGAR DOUGHNUTS

Steps:

• Combine flour baking soda; baking powder; salt cinnamon and allspice into a bowl. In another bowl combine sugar; eggs and melted butter. Whisk mixture to finish combining. Says he has 1 cup milk. Adds 1/3 cup of the milk and l cup flour mixture to bowl containing the sugar and eggs. Adds remaining flour mixture alternately with the remaining 2/3 cup milk, 1/3 cup at a time. Combine mixture well and chill for l hour.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface adding just enough flour to form a soft dough. Halve the dough and refrigerate one half while preparing the first batch of doughnuts. Roll dough l/3 inch thick and with a floured doughnut cutter, cut out rounds.
• Have 3 inches. oil heated to 365 degrees. Add doughnuts to heated oil along with the holes, 2-3 at a time. until golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Roll doughnuts and holes in vanilla sugar.