Molasses Doughnuts with Chocolate-Ginger Glaze

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    Doughnuts and Loads of Holes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles

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