I asked my mom this weekend if we could make homemade donuts while we where there for our visit.
Seems to me, making donuts is one of the best kitchen activities you can do with a large family.
Using an old family recipe, we mixed up the dough, and then went on our walk (the one I wrote about on Monday). When we got back we rolled and cut the dough, dropped the donuts in hot oil, and then finished them up by shaking them in paper bags full of cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar.
It was made even more fun because there were family members all over the place! In my mom’s kitchen there was standing room only. Jacob and Ethan helped quite a bit, Elisha did the shaking in sugar, my mom did the mixing, rolling, and cutting, and then there were others just watching or passing through to snatch a hot one off the plate. . . . . .
Doughnuts (just as my Great Grandma Wilcox wrote it):
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 teas. nutmeg
1/2 teas. salt
1 1/2 cups sweet milk (*sweet milk is just regular milk*)
3 tablespoons butter
4 teas. baking powder
2 teas. vanilla
Flour enough to make a dough, so you can handle-roll, cut and fry.
Put 1/4 cup of the sugar and butter in a dish, cream well, add eggs one at a time and beat well.
Mix 1 1/2 cups of the sugar and 1 1/2 cups of milk together in a bowl, stir as you use it, the vanilla can be put in with the sugar and milk. After all mixed together, let stand about 1 hr before rolling out. By doing this, you won’t have to use as much flour and they will be nicer.
If you make them, keep your little ones away from the hot oil. Let them help you mix the dough and shake the donuts in little brown paper bags instead. You will have so much fun! Eating them hot is the best part. If the temperature of the oil is correct, then they will not be greasy at all.
The donut snatcher (and raw dough eater, too)
Good to be Home 
MMMMmmmmm I’ll bet the house smelled great!
Oh, yum – warm donuts!
Mmm… those look amazing!! I’ve never hat a hot donut before, let alone made them at home. Yummy!
I expect they were so yummy!
I’m sorry I didn’t get to stay for the dough-nut making! But I’m glad we all got together and had such a good time.
Love You!
Looks like lots of yummy fun!
Yummy! We have a bag of donut mix in the freezer waiting for the right day!
Those look so good…would you be willing to share your family recipe for those? Have a nice day in chilly New England!
mmm those look wonderful. I hope you have a great day today. Love, Trish
@lizdavis10 – Okay, never mind the link, I copied and pasted the recipe in the blog for you. *smile*
Oh my goodness how good they look! I will have to try those. Thanks for sharing the recipe with all of us!
Boy, do those donuts look yummy! I would like it if you could post that recipe also. I have never made homemade donuts, and I just bought a antique donut cutter that is just dieing to be used.
Kelly
That’s funny, I must have been commenting as you where adding the recipe. Thanks for posting the recipe. I can’t wait to try it out. God bless
Kelly
Yum! My husband will be excited when I have these…he loves doughnuts! Thanks for printing the recipe.
Those look yummy!!My children would LOVE for us to make some donuts!Blessings,Angie
look at his little face! that is priceless!..he is all about that donut!
Those look amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Are you related to wilcoxes in Iowa. They are neighbors of ours and good friends. Just wondering. Those doughnuts look so so yummy.
Also what kind of oil do you use?
Oh, yum! Yum! Yum! I bet those were delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!!!
o how fun! these look great. we were just saying a couple days ago it’d be fun to try to make some donuts… well now we have a yummy recipe! =)
I’m going to try these-they look good!
Oh JoY!what a wonderful time that must have beenand what great memories for your children
Yum oh YUM! I agree with my sis…..such memories….sight, smell, taste, happiness.
Those donuts are the best of all — better than Winchell’s or Krispy Kremes!
Hello donuts – hello hips!
Yum! I can almost smell them right now. Thanks for sharing your grandma’s recipe.
I can’t wait to try these!! Are these considered cake donuts? Thank you so much for the recipe!!!
YUMMY!!! Shanda, you’re so good at memory-making with your kids and family. I love that you weren’t put off by the limited kitchen space but made a wonderful time with your loved ones. When I was growing up, making donuts was a tradition of my family on Christmas morning. We made chocolate glazed donuts, coconut donuts, and many other kinds. What a great memory!
gosh that looks so good!!
My grandma used to make us doughnuts. They were so good! My mom makes great doughnuts too. I’ve been wanting to make some for my brood, but I don’t have a doughnut cutter. Maybe I’ll have to put one on my birthday/Christmas list. What a fun and yummy memory you all made that day!
@alaskahannah – You could use a drinking glass for the donut and then a top from a soda bottle (or whatever) to cut the hole in the middle. That’s what I do for now.
Shan the pictures came out so good! That will be a time I will draw upon for smiles, in my memory bank. Love, Lish
Mmmmm!!! Such a cool tradition to do with the kids!!!
Yummm!!! Homemade donuts are delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe – I may have to make some this weekend!
Super yummy looking!! How do you stay your “tiny little self” (minus the baby) when you keep posting about all this wonder food!!! Your recipes are the best. Thanks, I’ll have to try that one with the children. Keep em comin’.
Okay…I’m coming over!
yumm I’m hoping to make pumpkin doughnuts this weekend