Name: Leftover potato mash doughnuts recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 18
Ingredients: 1 cup mashed potato; 1 cup caster sugar; 2 eggs; 30g (2 tbsp) butter, melted; 1/2 cup milk; 3 cups self-raising flour; 2 tsp baking powder

by Greer Worsley Last updated on 02/11/2021

Made with leftover mash, these easy and delicious doughnuts will be finished almost as soon as they hit the table! - Greer Worsley

Ingredients

1 cup mashed potato
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
30g (2 tbsp) butter, melted
1/2 cup milk
3 cups self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder

Method

Step 1

With hand-held beaters or a stand mixer, beat together potato and sugar until smooth. Add eggs and beat well, then add butter and milk. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder then fold through potato mixture to form a dough. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead gently until smooth and soft. You may need to add more flour. Cover with a tea towel and leave to rest for 20 minutes.
Step 2

Preheat oven to 190C. Grease a 6-cup Texan muffin tin with butter or spray oil.
Step 3

Roll out dough to 1cm thick. Use a 7cm scone cutter to cut circles of dough. Use a 4cm cutter to cut out the centre hole. Place rings into greased muffin tin and bake for 5 minutes. Use a fork to carefully turn doughnuts over then bake for a further 5 minutes. The doughnuts will be cooked when a skewer inserted into the dough comes out clean.
Step 4

Remove from the oven and repeat with remaining dough.
Step 5

To coat doughnuts, combine sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl. Brush hot doughnuts with melted butter, then toss in cinnamon sugar.

Recipe Notes

from Australia’s Best Recipes team

This recipe yields 18 doughnuts, so you will need to bake in three batches unless you have more than one 6-cup Texan muffin tin.

You can deep-fry these doughnuts instead of baking if you prefer. Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan until it reaches 180C. Gently slide doughnuts into oil and cook for 1-2 minutes each side until golden brown. Drain on paper towel then toss in cinnamon sugar - you won’t need the extra melted butter.

If your centre holes close up in the oven, use the end of a piping bag nozzle to cut them out again. Even better, if you have a doughnut ring baking tray, you can use that!

Recipe and photo by Greer Worsley.