Old Fashioned Cake Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup milk
• 4 cups flour (plus a little more if dough is sticky)
• oil for frying
• Cinnamon Sugar

Directions

1. In a large bowl mix the sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.
2. Add eggs, milk and melted butter. Beat well.
3. Add 3 cups of the flour, beating until blended. Add one more cup of flour and beat well. The dough should be soft and sticky but firm enough to handle. If you feel its necessary, add up to 1/2 cup more flour.
4. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for one hour.
5. Remove your dough from the fridge and begin heating about 1" of oil to 360F in a large metal skillet.
6. Working half the dough at a time, roll it out on a floured surface to about 1/2" thickness. Cut out circles using a doughnut cutter.
7. If you don't have a doughnut cutter then use a regular cookie cutter and cut out the hole with the screw cap.
8. Push the scraps of dough back together, re-roll and repeat steps 6 through 7 over and over until all the dough is used up.
9. Gently drop the doughnuts in batches into the hot oil. Flip them over as they puff and turn them a couple more times as they cook. They will take 3-4 minutes in total and they will be lovely and golden brown all over.
10. Remove from the oil and set them on paper towels to absorb the fat. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar. Enjoy them warm.