Apple And Blackberry With Hazelnut Dunking Doughnuts Recipe

• 6 lrg cooking apples peeled cored and minced
• 1 tsp grnd cinnamon
• 230 gm caster sugar plus extra for dusting
• 1 pun blackberries
• 500 gm plain flour
• 50 gm hazelnuts roasted in a warm oven till fragrant then grnd
• 250 ml sugar
• 30 gm butter
• 2 tsp baking pwdr
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 175 ml buttermilk or possibly lowfat milk
• 2 x Large eggs lightly beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract corn oil for deepfrying

1. In a saucepan cook the minced apple with the cinnamon and 100g of the sugar till the flesh has disintegrated and is completely smooth.
2. Meanwhile heat the remaining sugar with 100ml water to make a syrup.
3. Add in about 3 tbsp of the syrup to the blackberries and heat till soft and cooked.
4. Keep to one side.
5. Stir the remaining syrup into the cooked mix.
6. Again keep to one side.
7. Put half the flour into a processor with the grnd hazelnuts sugar butter and baking pwdr and soda.
8. Process till the mix resembles breadcrumbs.
9. Next beat together the buttermilk or possibly lowfat milk Large eggs and vanilla add in to the processor and mix.
10. Work in the remaining flour to make a dough being careful not to overdo it.
11. Remove to a floured surface and knead till smooth.
12. Next roll out the dough to about 2cm thick then using an 8cm ringcutter press out circles of dough (without twisting).
13. For ring doughnuts press a small hole from the centre of each using a 4cm ring cutter.
14. Heat the corn oil in a saucepan then deepfry the doughnuts in batches for about 3 min turning once.
15. Drain on kitchen roll arid dust with caster sugar.
16. Hot the apple and blackberry purees then pour the apple into bowls and top with the blackberries.
17. Eat the doughnuts hot dunking at every mouthful.
18. Add in thick cream if you can handle it.
19. If you do not want to make doughnuts you can use bought ones although you'll miss out on the hazelnut bit.
20. Serves 6

cooking apples, cinnamon, sugar, blackberries, hazelnuts, sugar, butter, baking pwdr, baking soda, buttermilk, eggs, vanilla

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/apple-and-blackberry-with-hazelnut-dunking-doughnuts-66047 (may not work)