Sweet Potato Doughnuts

Submitted by Aroostook

"This recipe came from Food TV's, Paula's Home Cooking and are they good! Paula also had a maple icing with pecans but I like'd them better plain. These freeze well and stay moist for several days. A keeper! Thanks, Paula! =)"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 20

ingredients

• 828.06 ml flour
• 236.59 ml sugar
• 9.85 ml baking powder
• 2.46 ml baking soda
• 2.46 ml ground cinnamon
• 2.46 ml salt
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 236.59 ml sour cream
• 236.59 ml cooked mashed sweet potato (I roasted mine)
• vegetable oil, for frying

directions

1. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sour cream, and sweet potato.
3. Gradually add flour mixture, stirring to combine.
4. Turn dough out onto a heavily floured surface.
5. Knead in flour with hands as needed (dough will be sticky).
6. Roll out dough to 1/2-inch thickness.
7. Cut out dough with a 2 1/4-inch round doughnut cutter.
8. No doughnut cutter? Use a soup can as a cutter then poke a hole in the middle of the dough round.
9. Using your fingers, stretch the dough until an inch opening is formed and the doughnut is about 3 " wide.
10. Re-roll dough as needed.
11. In a Dutch oven, heat vegetable oil over medium heat to 360 degrees F.
12. Cook doughnuts, in batches of 4-5, in hot oil, 2 minutes per side, or until lightly browned.
13. Drain on paper towels.

Reviews

[owennanagy]

I am new to Genius Kitchen, but have quickly come to trust the recipes and love the recipe explanations. I made Sweet Potato Doughnuts. Exceptional! Flavor, ease of making, everything. I used plain greek yogurt in place of the sour cream b/c that was what I had on hand.

 

[bshemyshua]

A+ recipe! I have made some doghnut recipes before. But these have turned out to be the best so far. I had 1/2 of a large sweet potato to use up. So here was a good opportunity. I did want to try mixing these in my bread maker. And it worked pretty well on dough only cycle. I did have to sub 1 cup soured milk for the sour cream (didn't have sour cream) Still worked beautifully. My family has informed me that i will have to make these again. I don't have a doughnut cutter so I used the alternative instructions and they also worked well. Next time I think I will try a cup of mashed white potatos. These are really that good! Also I used an electric skillet to fry them in since it is more controlled cooking than on the stovetop. Thank you for sharing. A real keeper.