Doughnuts
Doughnuts
Recipe Type: Cakes & Baking
Cuisine: American
Author: Caroline Artiss
Prep time: 2 hours
Cook time: 5 mins
Total time: 2 hours 5 mins
Serves: 24
Ingredients
Dough:
2 x 7g dried yeast
1/4 cup / 60ml warm water
1 cup / 240ml lukewarm milk
1/4 cup / 50g white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup / 80g shortening or butter – melted
4 cups / 500g all-purpose flour (plus extra for dusting)
large amount of sunflower oil for frying - 1 liter
Glaze:
2 cups / 200g icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup / 80g butter
2 -3 tablespoons hot water
Instructions
Start by making the dough as it needs time to rise
Mix the milk, water, butter, sugar in a pan. Heat the mixture until body temperature
Test - if you put your finger in it should not feel too hot or too cold
Stir to make sure all the butter has melted then add the yeast and leave to sit somewhere warm for 10 minutes. This helps the yeast grow.
Pour the yeast mixture into a large bowl and add one cup of flour and the eggs and mix together, Add the rest of the flour and knead it until it forms a ball of sticky dough
Keep kneading this ball for about 10 minutes
Adding more flour if it get’s to sticky
Leave covered in the large bowl, in a WARM place for about an hour or until it has doubled in size.
Once it has risen, take the dough out onto a floured work surface, knock the air out
Roll out until it is about 1cm thick
Cut into doughnut shapes either using a doughnut cutter or 2 round cutter one bigger than the other
You can even use a clean opened can and a bottle top
Once you have cut out all the shapes using all the dough (you have to keep rolling it out until you have used it all up)
Lay them all on a tray, cover and leave to rise again in a warm place for about half an hour
While waiting for the dough to rise you can make your glaze
Simply get a pan and heat the butter , water and vanilla
Once the butter has melted take off the heat and add the icing sugar, stir until melted and thick
Leave to one side. The mixture should be thick but still slightly runny, but not watery
Pour oil into a large pan or deep fat fryer, you need at least 2- 3 inches deep
Heat oil to 350f
You can test the oil is hot enough when you drop a small piece of dough in and it rises to the top quickly
Carefully place doughnuts in the oil a few at a time
Be careful not to over crowd the oil as this will reduce the temperature
Once they are golden on one side turn them over sing tongs to cook the other side
This all happens very quickly so have everything you need ready
Take doughnuts out and lay on a tray with kitchen towel to absorb any excess oil
Glaze doughnuts with the melted mixture while still hot