A traditional American dish is watergate salad. Pistachio-flavored instant pudding mix, canned pineapple, micro marshmallows, almonds, and whipped topping are the ingredients for this delectable side dish salad or dessert. This tasty cold treat comes up quickly and will wow your dinner guests with its fluffy texture and vibrant appearance after chilling for one to two hours. Add maraschino cherries and crumbled pistachios as garnish.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 16 mins |
| Total Time: | 41 mins |
| Servings: | 9 |
| Yield: | 9 doughnuts |
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 ½ tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup sour cream
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted, or as needed
Instructions
- Press 1/2 cup white sugar and butter together in a bowl until crumbly. Add egg yolks and stir until well combined.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a separate bowl. Place 1/3 of the flour mixture and 1/2 the sour cream into the sugar-egg mixture; stir until combined. Mix in the remaining flour and sour cream. Refrigerate dough until ready to use.
- Mix 1/3 cup sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
- Roll dough out onto a lightly floured work surface to 1/2-inch thick. Cut 9 large circles in the dough; cut a small circle out of the center of each large circle to create doughnut shapes.
- Preheat an air fryer to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Brush 1/2 of the melted butter over both sides of the doughnuts.
- Place 1/2 doughnuts into the basket of the air fryer; cook for 8 minutes. Paint cooked donuts with the remaining melted butter and immediately dip into the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat with the remaining doughnuts.
- Cook time may vary by the strength and capacity of your air fryer; check and adjust accordingly.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 276 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 44 g |
| Cholesterol | 66 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 390 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
If you’re looking for an air fryer donut recipe to try, keep looking. These are NOTHING like a donut, so I was really disappointed. I was excited to serve warm donuts to my family. Instead, these are more like a hard biscuit or scone. They tasted ok, but don’t make this recipe if you want donuts.
Super easy to make, turned out delicious! They tasted more like cinnamon rolls than donuts to my family and I, but we ate the whole batch within an hour!
The dough was very crumbly so we added a few Tbsp of milk. Maybe we didn’t let it chill long enough. Agree with another review that the texture was more like a scone, but I love scones, too! Great, easy donut recipe for the air fryer when you don’t have yeast on hand.
THESE ARE NOT DOUGHNUTS!! With that said, they were delicious. We are now calling them Sconuts. The texture and flavor is much more like a scone, but with the shape of a donut. They did not rise much at all, and weren’t even close to a cake donut which I was expecting. The reviews wouldn’t load on my phone prior to making them, but I decided to go ahead and try. I’m glad I did, we enjoyed them, and will probably make them again, but definitely not when we want donuts.
They were not great. hopefully my local donut shop opens this week so I can get my fix
I felt with all the negative reviews I needed to post my review. I agree with the woman who said she was glad she tried it despite the negative reviews. This is a very easy recipe, which is good because I am an air fryer newbie! I went into making this recipe knowing that because they are air fried, they will not be the same as deep fried. They definitely have a cookie texture but they are very tasty! And my husband loved them! I did use much more butter and sugar/cinnamon mixture, as I dipped the fried donuts into the butter rather than brushing, and I wanted them well coated. I am posting my photo as well.
we followed the recipe as close as possible but the dough was too sticky to use properly so we had to add about a cup and a half of flour, if not more. it was still a bit too sticky to work with even with all of the added flour. they came out more like dense biscuits then donuts and were all-around disappointing. we will not be using this recipe again, hopefully we can find a working recipe for actual air-fried donuts and not biscuits shaped like donuts.
Maybe the best donuts we’ve ever eaten! I’m so glad I didn’t let the negative reviews deter us… the texture, the flavor… so ridiculously delicious. Saving this to make for special occasions, we loved these so much!!! Thank you for the incredible recipe!
These are way too dense
It taste good but it is very easy to over cook it.
The most unsuccessful recipe I have ever made. It was more like a biscuit than a donut, but the “biscuit” wasn’t great either. I would not recommend.
Not even close to a donut. More like a scone. I did like the cinnamon flavor.
Wont make again looked nothing like the the pic
Mine ended up more like biscuits. I shortened the time for the next batch so they weren’t do brown. Maybe they weren’t thick enough but I was disappointed.
This recipe was a complete waste of time. The flavor was so lack luster.
We really like this recipe. I have a Nuwave air oven and it worked just as well as the air fryer works. I did not make holes in the donuts so they were more like very tasty biscuits. I do not have any notion that these are supposed to be like cake donuts. The dough is not like a cake batter would be. We thought they were super and I will definitely be making these again.
I followed the recipe very closely, but the results were somewhat disappointing. Not reminiscent of any cake donut I’ve ever eaten. I don’t think I will be making this again, but thanks for posting your recipe. Perhaps it will work for others.