Dessert+Yeast baking

Delicious donuts

Prep Time: 15 min / Cook Time: 2 hrs 15 min / Total Time: 2 hrs 30 min

These simple donuts are made with flour, milk, eggs, yeast, and sugar, then the donuts are fried and if you like - dredged in sugar. This recipe is easy to produce! It’s soo good!

Author and photographs: Olga

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Light and fluffy, these donuts are a good simple dessert that you will want to eat a dozen times.

Welcomed wherever you take them, these homemade donuts are a crowdpleaser, especially when they’re freshly fried.

They are made so easy that anyone can make them.

Delicious donuts

Yield: 30 pc.

Ingredients

For yeast dough:

  • 240 ml milk (room T)

  • 4 gr dry active yeast

  • 1 egg

  • 1 egg yolk

  • 100 gr sugar

  • vanilla

  • nutmeg

  • 500 gr flour

  • 110 gr butter, (very soft - room T)

  • 1/2 tsp salt

For sugar coating (if you want):

  • 100 gr sugar

  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Instructions

Mix milk and yeast with 3 tbsp. flour (taken from the total amount). Wait 10 minutes - if the foam has gone, then the yeast is alive and ready to go. Add egg, yolk, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, and flour. Start kneading the dough.

After 1 minute, add salt and butter. Knead the dough until smooth (about 5 minutes in a food processor with a hook attachment). The dough will easily fall behind your hands, not sticky.

Leave the finished dough to rest for 1.5 hours in a warm place, covered with a towel.

After this time, roll out the dough on a table dusted with flour (OR oiled sunflower oil) to about 1 cm wide. Cut out donuts with a hole in the center (you can simply cut them into rectangles if you don't have a special cutter), and transfer the blanks to baking paper sprinkled with flour.

Cover the donuts with a towel and leave for another 0.5 hours to rest.

Heat the vegetable oil to 160C (it should be hot and when a piece of dough gets into it, it starts to boil ( not aggressively, but calmly)- as with a medium boil. If you have a thermometer, it’s easier for you to determine the temperature of course. Fry each donut for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown.

Put the finished donuts first on a paper towel - it will absorb excess oil, then dip while still hot in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. The finer the sugar, the more it will stick to the donut.

Enjoy your meal.

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