Name: Molasses Doughnuts with Chocolate-Ginger Glaze
Yield: Makes 12 Doughnuts and Loads of Holes
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1½ cups [180 g] confectioners’ sugar, sifted; 6 Tbsp [90 g] granulated sugar; ½ to ¾ tsp ground cinnamon; 1 egg, at room temperature; ½ to 1 tsp ground ginger; 1½ tsp table salt; 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract; 1 cup [240 ml] buttermilk, at room temperature; ⅓ cup [105 g] molasses; ¾ tsp ground cinnamon; 3 Tbsp vegetable shortening; 3 cups [420 g] all-purpose flour; ¼ cup [45 g] potato starch; 2¾ tsp instant yeast; ½ cup [120 ml] heavy cream; 1 tsp ground ginger; Vegetable oil for frying; ¼ cup [20 g] Dutch-process cocoa powder, sifted

Preparation info

Makes
12
Doughnuts and Loads of Holes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

Grandma’s Old Fashioned Molasses Recipes (1928) includes three different recipes for molasses doughnuts, an indication of just how fond folks were of this treat. I have revamped the recipe for Sour Milk ones, using yeast instead of baking soda, resulting in doughnuts that are light and fluffy. Like the originals, my recipe does not include sugar, allowing the molasses flavor to truly shine. The chocolate-ginger glaze on one side of the doughnut