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Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts

Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts- These are sweet, soft homemade donuts that stay fresh and delicious for days!Just because you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, 30 minutes or more away from the closest donut shop doesn’t mean you should have to live a donut-free life! That’s why I spend some time frying up Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts for my gang every now and then.

The last time, my daughter informed me that it was her personal opinion that my Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts were better than the donut shops! Better!! I don’t normally play favorites, but I mean she’d have a leg up in the game if I did. ‘Cause the donuts at that shop are pretty darn tasty (even though you know they’re still processed to death and as bad for you as can be). They’re so good that Bill has to take several dozen in to work when he has to travel a few hours north to the office for a meeting. And she said mine were better!

Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts- These are are sweet, soft homemade donuts that stay fresh and delicious for days!The Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts themselves are fairly easy to make. Combine the ingredients into a soft dough, chill it, roll it, and cut it. But the frying can be a real time suck. Maybe it’s just cause I have a crowd to fry them for and need to make a double batch. But it’s either practice self-control till the end or eat breakfast standing up frying the next batch.

I modified this recipe from the Old Fashioned Sour Cream Donuts one I found in Top Pot: Hand Forged Donuts cookbook. Which is loaded with a multitude of other tempting recipes. I’ve got Apple Fritters, Bavarian Creams, Blackberry Fritters, Spice Cakes, Maple Bars, Triple Coconut, Raspberry Thumbprints, Whole Wheat Raised Glazed Rings, and more all saved to try one day.

I really appreciate that this recipe can be made up to 24 hours beforehand so that you only have to wake up, roll out the donuts, and fry them. For the frying, we use lard. It’s a homestead fat that we have this year in abundance and it makes the best donuts. It’s also exciting to make the donuts with sweet potatoes we grew in our own backyard, sour cream we made from our Jersey’s sweet milk, and lard from our own hogs.

You know what else is really great about these donuts? They stay fresh for a shockingly long time! I found one in a baggie that had been squirreled away a couple days later and sampled it, and though they couldn’t beat a warm donut, they were still soft and delicious!

I always toy with the idea of feeling guilty over feeding these sweets when I do, especially for breakfast. But in the end I remind myself that every once in a while is never the problem. The problem is when it starts happening all the time. Or not at all… Well that doesn’t make any sense, does it? How can entirely abstaining from these foods be a problem? For one, it makes your system hypersensitive so if you were to eat something out of the ordinary it would make you sick. (Speaking from experience. And it’s not just with unhealthy foods that can happen- as a good example, when we go months without sourdough, it makes us feel very ill.) Another thing that may happen if we have children is, when they are grown, despite your best efforts to educate them, they may glut to the detriment of their health. (Also speaking from experience.) As long as we practice moderation and don’t allow ourselves to neither binge nor abstain there’s little fear of the occasional treat impacting your overall health.

Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts- These are are sweet, soft homemade donuts that stay fresh and delicious for days!


Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts- These are are sweet, soft homemade donuts that stay fresh and delicious for days!

Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts

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Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts

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Ingredients

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  • Vanilla Glaze
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ⅓ cup hot water, or more
  • Donuts
  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup evaporated cane juice, or sugar (Buy cane juice here.)
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¾ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon ginger
  • 2 Tablespoons lard
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅔ cup sour cream
  • 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes, or enough to make a soft dough
  • lard for frying, (Learn how to render lard here.)

Instructions

  1. To make the glaze, whisk the powdered sugar and salt together until it’s aerated. Stir in the vanilla and enough hot water to make a glaze that is thick enough to drizzle, but not watery.
  2. To make the donuts, whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl.
  3. Cut in the lard until it’s crumbly.
  4. In a separate bowl, stir the eggs, sour cream, and sweet potatoes together until the mixture is smooth.
  5. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ones until they are combined and form a soft dough. You may need to add some more mashed sweet potatoes to get a consistency of biscuit dough.
  6. Bring all of the dough together in a ball and flatten it into a disc.
  7. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes up to 24 hours.
  8. Heat a few inches of lard in a saucepan until it reaches 325 degrees.
  9. Roll out the dough to ½ an inch and cut donuts into rounds and holes with a 2 ¾” biscuit cutter and a 1 1/2″ biscuit cutter.
  10. Fry the rounds (and holes) in the fat until they float plus 15 seconds and then carefully turn them.
  11. Fry them for 90 seconds and then flip them again.
  12. Fry for a final 60 seconds until transferring them to a cooling rack or towel.
  13. As soon as they are cool enough to handle, dredge one side in the Vanilla Glaze.
  14. Allow them to cool enough to harden the glaze until it crackles.

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Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Sour Cream Donuts- These are are sweet, soft homemade donuts that stay fresh and delicious for days!

 

 

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Comments

  1. Lea says

    18 February, 2017 at

    Just…yum! I am a sucker for doughnuts though I totally am a health geek the rest of the time. Will definitely try these!

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      25 February, 2017 at

      It’s all about moderation, right? Hope you like them!

      Reply
  2. Diane says

    18 February, 2017 at

    This family would rather have a sour cream donuts than the yeast type any day! Add in that we love sweet potatoes, it gets our attention, Then we can make it ahead of time and not get stressed about timing. ITS A KEEPER! I will not be able to do them until next weekend, but bet your sweet buns, I will do them then.

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      25 February, 2017 at

      The sweet potatoes were such a happy accident! I messed up the method in my normal recipe and somehow that left them super dry and crumbly. Nothing you could roll out and cut. Thankfully, we had the sweet potatoes leftover in the fridge from dinner the night before, some spices were tossed in and it was a definite improvement on the original! Sometimes messing up is a good thing after all 😀

      Reply
  3. Dani | Desolatehomestead says

    22 February, 2017 at

    Saving this one to try later, what a great recipe!

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      25 February, 2017 at

      Hope you love them as much as we do Dani! ❤️

      Reply
  4. candi says

    2 March, 2017 at

    WHOA!!!! GIIIIIIIIIIIRL – You just hit the nail on the head…. when we completely abstain from certain foods we make our bodies hyper-sensitive to them. I can’t tell you how much sense this makes. I have friends who complete eliminated corn from their diet & now they CAN’T eat it without reacting – He (my friend) said to me just a week ago, “It’s like avoiding it made me allergic to it. Is that possible?”

    I’m going to share this information with him.

    Thanks for sharing your life & experiences – you just never know who needs to hear. 🙂
    -Candi

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      11 March, 2017 at

      It’s crazy, isn’t it?! I know a lady who was living (and dining) with someone who had a genuine food intolerance and now has developed the same intolerance herself after years of not eating those foods because they weren’t being served. It’s kind of a shame because so many folks jump on a “healthy” eating kick and then go back to the foods they were abstaining from and their newly developed intolerance validates their original thinking when it actually wasn’t so to begin with.

      Reply

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