sorry bro, wrong kind of nut
The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates to an 1808 short story[14] describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts". Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term. Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[15] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes (see holes section). The word nut is here used in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie".[16] Doughnut is the traditional spelling and still dominates even in the United States[17][18][19] though donut is often used.[20][21] At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English.[22]