I wanted to share a recipe today that we tried out recently. Someone we know shared it with us, thank you Diane! The homemade potato donuts were very fun and easy to make. Mr. Wonderful really wanted to try these out. He has a memory of going to a friend’s house when he was a kid, and the friend’s mom had made homemade donuts. Being a kid, he thought that was the coolest thing! Since it was a fond memory, he wanted to try to replicate for our boys.
They turned out great! They were very moist and I think they tasted like Fall. 🙂 I am sure the nutmeg has something to do with that. The recipe makes 60 donuts, although we were doubting this when we saw the amount of dough there was. We ended up with 59 donuts, but had also made a couple donut holes as well. Because it made so many, we ended up freezing some of the donuts.
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We used this donut cutter to cut out our donuts. It can also double as a cookie cutter.
We used our fryer to make these. I don’t like to use that in the house, otherwise you are smelling that fryer smell all day. So we fried our donuts in the garage. As a result, several neighbors got to try the donuts as well. 🙂
I hope you try these donuts and enjoy them as much as we did!
These delicious homemade potato donuts are easy and fun to make! This recipe is perfect for fall or anytime of the year. Tips:
Homemade Potato Donuts
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
Consider making mashed potatoes for supper and add the 1½ cups potatoes needed into your preparation
You can freeze the lard for future use.
Using a rolling pin makes dough stick to the counter (this stuff is sticky). Just use your hands to push out the dough.
When fried the donut will be fat if the dough is too thick, and if too thin the donut will soak up more oil and be 'sunk in'.
Freeze remaining donuts in ice cream pails. When you take them out they will retain that nice crunchy outside and taste.
Crystal Green says
I have never made these, but they sure do sound good. Since we make mashed potatoes quite often in our home I think I’ll give this a try. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe with us.
Kimberly says
Thanks Crystal! I hope you enjoy them, we sure do! 🙂
Lea says
Hi. Thanks I made it an it was successful thanks