Old Fashioned Buttermilk Fried Cake Donut Recipe

Mom's Buttermilk Doughnuts are an old-fashioned, deep fried doughnut recipe that are besides known as fry cakes. This block like doughnut is deep fried until golden brown. The vanilla flavored cake encased in the crispy brown exterior is cook in your mouth delicious. And, there is aught better than a fresh Buttermilk Doughnut and a cup of Hot Fireball Apple Cider!

Deep Fried Buttermilk Doughnuts are a great way to treat your family unit on the weekend. They are a fiddling time intensive, but then worth the end result. If you accept never tried a homemade buttermilk doughnut, and so you demand to read on, because it an feel that anybody needs to take!

Mom standing in her kitchen with a tray of homemade buttermilk doughnuts on the counter beside her.
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  • 🍩 Mom's Doughnut Recipe
  • Donut or Doughnuts?
  • Doughnut FAQ's
  • 💭 Top Tips
  • Doughnut Shapes
  • AKA Lucille Brewer's Doughnuts
  • Repurposing Doughnuts
  • More doughnut recipes you may enjoy
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 💬 Comments

🍩 Mom's Doughnut Recipe

My mom has always been an amazing maker of all things bread-similar. Three things she would make regularly in the home were biscuits, staff of life, and doughnuts. I remember as a young girl, I would picket her make her doughnuts, and anxiously expect until they would come out of the hot grease. We loved to eat them warm, either shaken upwardly with a footling powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, or dipped in some pure maple syrup.

If you have never eaten a freshly made fry block, then you are certainly missing out. There is nothing else like it. I felt this method of making an old-fashioned doughnut should non disappear. Because of this, I decided to document my Mom'south method of making homemade buttermilk doughnuts.

Mom holding the deep fried doughnut recipe card

Donut or Doughnuts?

All of my life a Doughnut was a doughnut! The spelling of donut was always around, just spelling of donut became the more pop version when Dunkin' Donuts came into existence. Neither i of these spellings are wrong and actually, if you search either word on the cyberspace, yous become recipes with both spellings!

A tray of golden brown homemade buttermilk doughnuts with one deep fried doughnut broken in half to show the inside

Doughnut FAQ'due south

What is an sometime-fashioned doughnut?

An one-time fashioned doughnut is a block like ring of fried dough that has been leavened with blistering pulverization. It has a tender interior with a crispy outside.

Is a yeast donut the aforementioned matter equally a fry cake?

No, a yeast donut is a doughnut made with active yeast. The interior will exist more like a sweet yeast bread and exterior is smooth and golden dark-brown.

What is the difference between deep fried donuts and a baked donuts?

Deep fried donuts will have a crispy exterior with a soft interior. A baked donut will have more of a cake similar texture all effectually.

💭 Meridian Tips

  • Utilise a blender to combine the sugar, eggs, oil, buttermilk, and lemon juice. This will completely mix all the wet ingredients together well.
  • Measure dry ingredients and add together with flour in sifter, then sift into a big bowl.
  • Commencement the mixing with a hand mixer, then movement to a spoon as the dough becomes stiffer.
  • The dough should be pliable when your turn it out onto a floured lath. End mixing by manus until you accept a strong and workable dough.
  • Brand sure yous refrigerate the dough at least 30 minutes.
  • One time the doughnuts are cut, gear up them aside to rest for 30 minutes.

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Doughnut Shapes

When you remove the dough from fridge, gently pat out and shape the dough until about 1 inch thickness.

Use a donut cutter or a biscuit cutter . My mom uses a round biscuit cookie cutter for a bigger donut. Then she volition cutting out the donut holes using the removable center of the doughnut pigsty cutter.

Deep Frying Tips

Keep in listen when deep frying doughnuts, you lot will need to keep the rut at a steady temperature. I recommend using a heavy bottomed stock pot or electrical deep fryer to fry your doughnuts. I too recommend using a deep fry thermometer to go along an eye on the temperature of the oil.

AKA Lucille Brewer'south Doughnuts

The recipe bill of fare shown below does not bear witness the recipe the way my mom makes information technology. She has made this deep fried doughnut recipe for longer than I have been around, and the recipe has evolved with her over the years.

Mom's tattered deep fried doughnut recipe card

The card is the original recipe my Nanny used and she passed information technology on to mom. I shared this carte du jour with you so you could see the original version. Mom'south version is in my recipe card beneath.

Repurposing Doughnuts

It is very rare you will demand to find a way to use doughnuts, other than only eating them. However, at that place are a couple of different ways to enjoy a doughnut that I thought I would share with you.

Try making Doughnut Bread Pudding! Or, I observe this grilled cheese donut intriguing. I'grand not sure I would want it with a glazed donut, but a cake donut maybe?

This is a donut sandwich I would eat in a heartbeat! A Maple Donut Breakfast Sandwich would be hard to resist with the sweet maple icing and bacon! Another sugariness and savory treat to try is this Donut Monte Cristo Sandwich. A little spicy jam with that sandwich would add another layer of flavour that would make information technology a killer sandwich!

More doughnut recipes y'all may relish

Nosotros love our bootleg donuts! My favorite yeast donut is this recipe for Apple Cider Glazed Doughnuts. When I make this recipe, I ofttimes will salve a few doughnuts to glaze with a maple frosting.

collage of deep fried doughnut recipe

I prefer deep fried doughnut recipes. However, I do bake them ofttimes besides! Some of my favorite broiled donut recipes are for Broiled Banana Doughnuts with Browned Butter Rum Coat, Raspberry Lemon Baked Donuts, and Broiled Chocolate Mocha Doughnuts .

Raspberry Lemon Baked Donuts
Raspberry Lemon Baked Doughnuts

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📖 Recipe

A tray of golden brown homemade buttermilk doughnuts with one deep fried doughnut broken in half to show the inside

Homemade Buttermilk Doughnuts

Mom'south tried and truthful recipe over 50 years old, this vintage recipe will have your family begging for you to make them every weekend!

Prep Time 45 mins

Cook Time v mins

Refrigeration Time 30 mins

Total Fourth dimension i 60 minutes 20 mins

Course Breakfast & Brunch

Cuisine American

Servings 36

Calories 194 kcal

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • two tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • four cups flour
  • iii tablespoon blistering pulverisation
  • one tablespoon blistering soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg or cinnamon
  • ii cups vegetable oil for frying
  • In a blender, combine the sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, buttermilk, lemon juice, and vanilla.

  • In a large mixing bowl, sift 2 cups of flour with baking pulverisation, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg.

  • Using a mitt mixer, blend the wet and dry out ingredients together until a mucilaginous dough forms.

  • Gradually add the remaining 2 cups of flour to the dough until it becomes stiff and pliable.

  • Encompass dough and place in fridge to chill up to 30 minutes.

  • Remove dough from refrigerator and pat downwards and out with floured easily until round and approximately 1" thick.

  • Cut out doughnuts with cutter and set bated on floured lath.

  • Once doughnuts are cut, allow remainder while y'all prepare the vegetable shortening for frying.

  • Add together shortening to a large frying pot and heat until 375 degrees.

  • Gently place doughnuts in hot grease. Once they go into the grease, they will sink, then float up to the top, with the hot oil bubbles around them.

  • Cook for approximately 2 minutes per side, until golden brown.

  • Exist certain oil does not go too cool or likewise hot. Temperature should exist maintained at 375 degrees.

  • Remove fried doughnuts from hot grease and transfer to a paper towel lined cookie sail.

  • Let whatsoever backlog oil drain from doughnut and cool at to the lowest degree v minutes earlier treatment.

Serving: 1 doughnut Calories: 194 kcal Carbohydrates: 17 g Protein: 2 g Fat: 13 g Saturated Fat: 1 thou Polyunsaturated Fat: 12 g Cholesterol: 11 mg Sodium: 276 mg Sugar: half dozen k

Keyword Buttermilk Doughnuts, Fry Cake, Fry Cakes, Mom's Bootleg Buttermilk Doughnuts

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About Shelby Law Ruttan

Shelby is the writer/owner of Grumpy'due south Honeybunch. Established in 2007, she shares and preserves family recipes as well as recipes for cooking lite and keto. She has authored the One-Pot Paleo Cookbook and The Pescatarian Keto Cookbook. She is an experienced, self-taught domicile melt who loves to share recipes with others. She as well authors the websites Honeybunch Hunts and The Best Vegetarian Recipes. You lot can run across her work on websites such every bit Veal Made Piece of cake, Parade, Community Table, SoFab Food, Yummly, and FoodGawker.

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