I’ve been craving doughnuts lately like you would not believe! How could you not, right? Here’s an ever so tempting recipe from the Eating Out Loud blog to make you crave some too and to get more thorough directions than I am providing you with. This recipe makes 3 dozen doughnuts, so you may want to half it if you don’t want to overindulge or don’t have anyone to share with.

INGREDIENTS:
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 1/2 Tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
4-5 cups flour

DIRECTIONS:
Beat eggs with sugar. Add butter, baking powder, nutmeg, baking soda, buttermilk. Mix thoroughly. Slowly add 4-5 cups of flour until well combined until it becomes somewhat stiff. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for a few hours. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until 1/2 inch thick. Cut out the doughnut shapes using an empty can and the end of a wooden spoon for the holes. Fry them in 375 degree oil until golden brown.

You can eat them plain, add powdered sugar, add cinnamon and sugar. Or as Eating Out Loud suggests, a nice glaze:

I made a simple glaze of 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 2-3 T milk. I divided it into four bowls and then played around: 1 T raspberry preserves in one, 1 T blueberry jam in another, maple flavoring in the third, and a generous amount of freshly ground cinnamon in the fourth bowl