Cranberry Jam Doughnuts with Spiced Orange Sugar

My parents make specific requests of my sister and me for our time home together over the Christmas holiday.  My sister, now that she is Seattle’s Queen of Ice Cream (a title I’ve given her solely because she’s earned it) is tasked with bringing at least a dozen pints of ice cream on the plane with her from Seattle to Los Angeles.  It seems like an arduous task that involves dry ice and for that we are all so so grateful.  I show my deep appreciation by hiding a pint of her Lemon Bar Ice Cream in the back of the freezer in hopes that no one will dig it out for themselves.  

I’ll be tasked with making a dessert – an old family classic like Texas Sheet Cake or my dad’s pie crusts.  Much easier, it all requiring far less dry ice.  This year I’m coming in strong with the doughnut game.  Fresh fried, after church, Christmas morning doughnuts.  (My mom is reading this and she’s into it – I already know.)  

The only right thing to do will be to combine my sister’s ice cream with fresh fried doughnuts.  The audacity to call this breakfast will be our Christmas gift to each other as we count our many many blessings.  

Today, in lieu of ice cream, homemade cranberry jam. 

We’ve got all sorts of doughnut options for you around here if these cranberry jammers are your deal: 

See: 

Browned Butter Baked Doughnuts

A Recipe for Two Doughnut Twists

Banana Bread Baked Doughnuts

These doughnuts come together in three parts, but really – I promise, nothing is too complex:  

• the doughnut dough is an everything-in-the-mixer kind of move after the yeast has been activated with a bit of warm water and a pinch of sugar.

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