In a large bowl, combine your sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, mixed spice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix until combined leaving a well leaving a well in the centre of your bowl to add your wet ingredients.

Pour the remaining ingredients into the centre of the bowl and begin to mix together using a wooden spoon or spatula. Start by mixing in the very centre, mostly mixing the wet ingredients. Then slowly work your way outwards until everything is very well combined. The dough should form into a large ball with a similar consistency to that of play dough but slightly stickier. Feel free to add a little extra flour if it has not yet reached that point.

Once your dough is ready sprinkle a little bit of flour over your bench top and roll out the dough to approx 1.5 - 2 cm thick. Dip a small round cutter in flour (or drinking glass if you don’t have one) use to cut out as many rounds as possible Brush off as much flour as possible and set aside. Re-form dough to cut out more, you should end up with approx 30 donuts. (Save a little scrap dough for testing your oil temperature)

Pour oil into a large saucepan and heat at on a medium-high heat until it reaches 190 degrees celcius. Once you think that you have reached the right temperature, try frying a little of the scrap dough. The donut should bubble immediately when it enters the oil and float to the top within 10 seconds.

While your oil is heating, sieve together the icing sugar and cocoa into a medium sized bowl and set aside.

Lay 2 sheets of paper towels onto a large dinner plate to collect the oil from your cooked donuts

Begin to fry donuts in batched of 3. they should take 1-2 minutes on the first side before you need to flip them with a pair of metal tongs.

Flip and fry for a further minute or until your donuts are golden and cooked through.

Once cooked, remove the donut balls using tongs. Place onto the paper towels to drain slightly.

Add your next batch of donuts. While the next batch of donuts cook, add the already cooked donuts (one at a time) into the cocoa mixture, shake for a few seconds, flip, shake again and remove. Set your finished donuts aside to cool.

Repeat the same process until all of your donuts are done.