Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and salt in a large bowl, and mix together.

In a separate bowl, mix together the egg, milk, melted butter and vanilla extract. Then add this to the dry mixture, and mix together.

I used a mini doughnut maker to bake the doughnuts, and simply greased both surfaces with oil and a paper towel, and poured 1 tablespoon of batter into each doughnut space. Then I shut the lid, cooked them for 3 minutes, and then flipped over the doughnut maker and cooked them for an additional 3 minutes on the other side. Then I flipped them back to the starting position, and removed them with a bamboo skewer. If you don’t have a doughnut maker, then you can use a regular-sized doughnut baking pan and bake them for 17 minutes at 350F. This recipe will make 12 regular-sized doughnuts. Place the doughnuts on a cooling rack to cool.

Then sprinkle on some confectioner’s sugar, and you’re done!