Healthy Treat for Today: Whole Wheat Donuts
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My dad…whom my boys call, Papa, is famous around here for buying us donuts when he comes to town. It’s become a big deal…one that the boys won’t let Papa forget about. (“Hi Papa…did you bring us donuts?…oh, and we’re also glad you’re here…”)
One Saturday morning…I decided to make homemade (and healthier) donuts for the family. I got up early…ground wheat into flour…mixed up the dough, rolled them out, fried them up…and made a special hot fudge sauce to drizzle over them. I put them on a pretty platter…poured glasses of fresh milk…and called the boys down for breakfast.
I cheerfully and excitedly greeted them with flour on my face and my hair all frazzled from all the work of making these fresh off the stove donuts…
And my three year old lit up and said, “Oh!! Did Papa make us DONUTS?!”
Huh. I go to all this trouble…and Papa gets all the credit.
sigh :)
Well, they liked my donuts just as much Papa’s…and I loved that these were a pretty healthy treat!
(Papa really got a big kick out of that story, of course..)
I hope you’ll get a big kick out of this recipe!
Whole Wheat Cake Donuts (or should I call them, “Papa’s Special”?)!
3 ¼ cup whole wheat flour
2 t. baking powder
½ t. cinnamon
¼ t. salt
¼ t. nutmeg
2/3 cup rapadura (dehydrated cane sugar juice) or sucanat
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
Oil for frying (I use palm shortening or coconut oil)
Mix dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Stir in eggs, vanilla, milk and melted butter. Knead dough a few minutes to make sure all ingredients are mixed thoroughly.
On a floured surface, roll dough to ½ inch thickness. Cut with donut cutter, or biscuit cutter. Heat oil in skillet or electric skillet…enough to cover the bottom of the skillet about ¼ inch. Place donuts into the hot oil to fry for 2-3 minutes on each side. Remove from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate. Sprinkle a mixture of rapadura and cinnamon, or sprinkle organic powdered sugar over the hot donuts.
Yum! Anytime I want a special breakfast treat for my family…these donuts work for me!
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Since I”m pretty sure you won’t go for Fed Ex’ing me some of these, I’m going to have to make them myself.
I like this recipe b/c it doesn’t call for many ingredients that I don’t have. Since cooking isn’t exactly my favorite thing it’s better if I don’t allow myself to get geeked up about a potential new item I could make but have to go out and buy a bunch of stuff. Only thing I have to get is the sucanat. I have a ques though about the coconut oil: what is the big deal about coconut oil? I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on your site. (the only reason I even have it in my pantry is for another new recipe I made once earlier this year)
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Also… I bow to you for not only getting up early on a Saturday morning but also for GRINDING WHEAT INTO FLOUR. Outside of this blog, I think the last time I heard those four words strung together was when I was reading “The Little Red Hen” to my kids!!! Kudos for you :)
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I read your post on soaking grains, but not sure which instruction to follow for making these doughnuts. How do you soak for this recipe? Thanks :)
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LindseyforLaura@HHM Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Laura does not soak these. :)
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Is it okay to use canola oil to fry? Running out of coconut oil. Thanks!
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