The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including Alton Brown, Nancy Silverton, Kate Neumann and Epicurious.

This is my first Daring Bakers challenge. What better fall treat than doughnuts!

This is a yeasted dough with eggs, milk, and butter. I was very excited that the recipe called for ground nutmeg because I was able to use some of the whole nutmeg I brought back from Turkey.
Like most yeasted breads the dough is left to rise for about an hour.

Lucky for me I was able to get some help rolling out the dough (tough work but someone has to do it).


After the dough was rolled out by my helper I then cut it with cookie cutters.

Doughnuts become doughnuts when they are boiled in oil.

When they had a chance to cool a bit, I coated them with powdered sugar.

To make this Fall treat complete we coupled it with a cup of apple cider. I think everyone was pleased with the way it turned out! :)