Everybody loves doughnuts. Especially when they are soft and just a little drippy. These Bourbon Bacon Doughnuts are exactly that. Soft, crunchy, and oh so good.
Welcome. Did you trade in those glitter leggings for comfy sweat pants yet because it’s round two of Doughnut Week and you might as well make your self comfortable. Clearly, I didn’t get enough of liqueur glazed, iced, and frosted fried bites of awesome as I followed up my Irish cream cream filled doughnuts with a round of bourbon glazed bacon topped doughnuts. So let’s get to it! And don’t forget the awesome giveaway hanging out below the post.
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Bourbon Bacon Doughnuts
Ingredients
For the Doughnuts
- 3 cups all-purpose flour divided, plus extra bench flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp fine salt
- 2 tbsp vegetable shortening
- 3/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tbsp bourbon
- Canola oil for frying
For the Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tbsp bourbon
- Bacon cooked and cut into tiny pieces (a few extra strips from breakfast or burger night will do)
Instructions
Make the Doughnuts
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In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix 2 cups flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt until combined.
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Add the shortening and combine.
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Add the buttermilk, egg and yolk in to the bowl and mix until smooth.
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Add the bourbon and final cup of flour until well mixed.
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Remove from stand, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 3 to 6 hours.
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When ready to fry, turn the dough out onto a well floured clean work surface and press into a circle about 1/2" thick.
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Using a doughnut cutter or a 3 – 4 ” round biscuit cutter and a 1" round cutter, cut out doughnuts.
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Re-roll (and re-flour surface) as needed until the last doughnut has been cut (and even then you can fry the scraps. Who’s judging? Not me).
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Heat oil to 350 degrees in a pot with high sides or in a fryer and arrange paper towels on a wire rack near by to drain.
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When the oil is hot, work in small batches to fry all of the doughnuts and doughnut holes, 2 to 3 minutes a side until golden.
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Transfer carefully to paper towel lined rack and let cool.
Make the Glaze
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Whisk the confectioners sugar and bourbon together in a bowl to form a thick glaze. Add a dash of milk if needed to thin it out.
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Dip each doughnut in the glaze and let rest for 5 seconds.
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Place on a wire rack and press bacon into glaze to set.
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Allow the glaze to set; Serve.
Recipe Notes
Mother of pearl. I’ve never wanted bourbon more…
Oh please pick me to come over and be the official doughnut eater!!
We should’ve combined our flavors. Bet it would have been even more magical 😉
Seriously Dude, what are you trying to do to me?! These look fantastic!
Bourbon in doughnuts! That sound dangerously good!
Bacon and carbs. You just get me Kita.
I feel like deep down inside you make these doughnuts just for me…haha. My husband and I have a HUGE bourbon collection and I just know that we would love these doughnuts. Plus you added bacon…good lord woman I love you.
These doughnuts! Oh my gosh, I will just have to take the bakers dozen. Freaking awesome, girl!
Bourbon and bacon. Sold.
You slay me. These donuts truly are little works of art.