Birthday Doughnuts

Chiara Passera
Chiara Passera @cook_3679253
Bristol, UK

I made these for my bf birthday breakfast ;)

Birthday Doughnuts

I made these for my bf birthday breakfast ;)

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Ingredients

2 hours
16 servings
  1. For the dough
  2. 7 gramsactive dry yeast
  3. 450 gramsstrong flour/manitoba flour
  4. 240 mlmilk
  5. 60 gramsbutter
  6. 3egg yolks
  7. 35 gramssugar
  8. 1/4 tspcinnamon
  9. 1/4 tspground nutmeg
  10. Decorations
  11. 180 gramspowdered sugar
  12. 3 tbspmilk
  13. 25 gramsunsweetened cocoa powder
  14. 2 tbspwarm water
  15. frying oil

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    Dissolve yeast in 2 tablespoon of warm water and let it rest for 5 minutes

  2. 2

    Mix all the rest of the ingredients for the dough, then add the yeast

  3. 3

    Form the dough into a ball, put it in a greased bowl, cover and let it rise for 90 minutes

  4. 4

    Roll the dough out and cut it with a pastry cutter to form 8cm donuts (use a smaller pastry cutter to form the hole). You can use upsidedown glasses too, if you don't have pastry cutters

  5. 5

    Make the donuts rest and rise for another 40 minutes

  6. 6

    Fry two donuts at a time, for ~3 minutes, oil shouldn't be too hot (180°)

  7. 7

    Pat the donuts dry with paper towels and let them cool down

  8. 8

    Prepare the icing mixing milk and powdered sugar (add cocoa powder for the chocolate one or food coloring for different colors)

  9. 9

    Dip one side of the donuts into icing, (you can add other decorations as chocolate letters or other decorations) and let them dry

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Comments (2)

Greg
Greg @GregC
making them now...following steps 1,2,3 you end up with a bowl of dry ingredients? You never said add the milk?

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