For milder beer flavor, brush hot beer doughnuts in melted butter and toss in a brown bag with lots of cinnamon sugar before topping with maple glaze.
Maple-and-Beer Glazed Doughnuts
Ingredients
Doughnut
- ½ cup (115 grams) unsalted butter, melted
- ½ cup (120 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
- ¼ cup (46 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2¼ cups (315 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons (6 grams) baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon (4.5 grams) kosher salt
- ¾ teaspoon (1.5 grams) ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon (1.5 grams) baking soda
- ¾ cup room temperature Oktoberfest or dunkel beer
Glaze
- Makes ¾ cup
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup Oktoberfest or dunkel beer
- 1 tablespoon (15 grams) cold unsalted butter
- ¾ cup (108 grams) sifted confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
Doughnut
- Preheat oven to 425°. Spray 2 (6-cup) doughnut pans with cooking spray.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugars at medium speed until fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda. With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with beer, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating just until combined after each addition. Spoon batter into prepared pans (cups will be full).
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool in pans for 5 minutes. Remove from pans, and let cool 5 minutes more on a wire rack. Dip doughnuts in Maple-Beer Glaze.
Glaze
- In a medium saucepan, heat maple syrup and beer over medium heat until reduced to ½ cup, 15 to 20 minutes. Pour into a medium bowl. Whisk in cold butter, and let cool for 20 minutes. Whisk in confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Use immediately.
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Photography by Matt Armendariz | Recipe Development and Food Styling by Marian Cooper Cairns
Read the whole article in Bake From Scratch Fall 2016.
