As if Fridays aren’t great enough, I have a little something that’ll make your weekend even better. Homemade doughnuts. AND they’re not fried! When I saw this recipe on Joy The Baker, I knew I had to try it immediately. So I rushed to Bed Bath and Beyond to get myself a donut pan, and a few hours later, I was stuffing my face with homemade doughnuts while watching Modern Family reruns (I may need to reevaluate my life, but we can get to that later). I did make a few tweaks to the otherwise perfect recipe, scroll down to see.
INGREDIENTS
For the doughnuts:
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup chopped pistachios
1/2 cup butter (4tbsp for the doughnuts, and the rest for the glaze)
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 tbsp vanilla essence
For the glaze:
Icing sugar
Remaining butter
1 tbsp vanilla essence
Pistachios to garnish
Milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the over to 350 degrees F and grease a doughnut pan.
Put your flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and pistachios in a bowl and set it aside.
Take the half cup of butter, and put it on a pan over medium heat to brown. Be patient with this process, it will make all sorts of noise.
While waiting for the butter to brown, beat your eggs, vanilla essence and buttermilk.
Once the butter has browned, remove it from the pan into a small bowl. Measure out 4 tbsp and add it in small increments to your wet ingredients. You have to work very quickly and beat the wet ingredients vigorously, otherwise the eggs will scramble. Set the remaining brown butter aside for the glaze
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 8-12 minutes. Mine generally took 10 minutes.
Meanwhile make the glaze. Now the original recipe calls for 1 cup of icing sugar, but I find that is far too much. I find the best way to make glaze is to eyeball it. Just start adding icing sugar, bit by bit, to the remaining brown butter. I personally needed only 1/2 a cup. Add about a teaspoon of vanilla essence, and milk to thin out the glaze to a consistency where it’s not too thin.
Wait for your doughnuts to cool before you glaze them, and then garnish with chopped pistachios. Enjoy!