Apple Cider Donuts
Hello friends, welcome to Donuts Recipes. Today we are going to make Apple Cider Donuts.
A great fall treat! Tastes just like ones you’d buy from a pumpkin or apple farm! Yummy apple flavor, great with a cinnamon and sugar coating!
Recipe Summary for Apple Cider Donuts
- preparation time: 30 minutes
- cook: 45 minutes
- additional: 40 minutes
- total: 1 hr 55 minutes
- Servings: 18
Ingredients for Apple Cider Donuts
Doughnuts
- 1 cup apple cider
- ¼ cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour, for dusting
Sugar Coating
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Cider Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons apple cider
Maple Syrup Glaze
- 1 ¼ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ⅓ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups oil for frying, or as needed

Directions for Apple Cider Donuts
- Bring 1 cup apple cider to a boil in a small saucepan; boil until reduced to 1/4 cup, 20 to 30 minutes. Cool.
- Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add 1 cup white sugar and beat until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture until completely incorporated. Mix buttermilk and reduced cider into butter mixture.
- Whisk 3 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg together in bowl. Add flour mixture to buttermilk mixture; stir until dough is just combined.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured piece of parchment or wax paper. Sprinkle dough with flour.
- Turn dough over onto a baking sheet and sprinkle with flour.
- Roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness, sprinkling with more flour as necessary. Transfer dough on the baking sheet to the freezer until slightly hardened, about 20 minutes.
- Cut cold dough using a 3-inch doughnut cutter. Gather, roll, and cut any dough scraps.
- Transfer cut doughnuts and doughnut holes to a second, slightly floured, baking sheet. Refrigerate doughnuts for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Whisk 1 cup white sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon together in a bowl. Transfer cinnamon sugar to a paper bag.
- Whisk 1 cup confectioners’ sugar and 2 tablespoons apple cider together in another bowl. Whisk 1 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla extract together in a third bowl.
- Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Cook doughnuts and doughnut holes in batches in preheated oil, turning once, until golden brown and cooked through, about 1 minute per side. Set cooked doughnuts on paper towels to drain.
- Shake warm doughnuts in the paper bag with cinnamon sugar, or pour cider glaze or maple syrup glaze over warm doughnuts.
Nutrition’s information in Apple Cider Donuts
- Servings Per Recipe: 18
- Calories: 320.4
- % Daily Value *
- protein: 3.6g 7 %
- carbohydrates: 64g 21 %
- dietary fiber: 0.8g 3 %
- sugars: 43g
- fat: 5.9g 9 %
- saturated fat: 2.2g 11 %
- cholesterol: 27.7mg 9 %
- vitamin a iu: 108IU 2 %
- niacin equivalents: 2.3mg 18 %
- vitamin c: 0.1mg
- folate: 50.7mcg 13 %
- calcium: 51.2mg 5 %
- iron: 1.5mg 8 %
- magnesium: 8.3mg 3 %
- potassium: 60.1mg 2 %
- sodium: 224.7mg 9 %
- thiamin: 0.2mg 21 %
- calories from fat: 53.1