Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, homemade donuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Homemade donuts is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Homemade donuts is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have homemade donuts using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade donuts:
- Take 2 tbsp dry yeast
- Get 2 cups milk
- Make ready 1/2 cup shortening room temp
- Get 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Take 6 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 cups chocolate for glazing
This recipe is very simple, quick, and tasty, and makes a perfect basic cake doughnut recipe. The dough doesn't have much flavor on its own, so for myself I would season them with cinnamon, citrus, vanilla, etc. If you roll each doughnut quickly in flour before frying you'll get a nice, crispy exterior. While donuts are frying make your donut Glaze.
Steps to make Homemade donuts:
- Dissolve yeast in ¾ cup luke-warm water. Set aside. - Heat 2 cups milk in microwave for 2-3 minutes.
- While milk is heating add shortening to a large bowl. Pour hot milk over it and whisk until mixed. Add salt, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Add 4 eggs and mix well.
- Add yeast mixture to batter and mix. Add 2 cups of flour and mix with a wooden spoon. Mix well. Add 2 more cups and mix. Add 2 more cups and mix. At this point, the batter should not be runny. Add 1 more cup of flour, give or take ½ cup.
- Sprinkle flour onto a clean surface and pour batter onto it. Gently knead dough batter until the surface is not sticky to the touch. Place the soft dough into a lightly greased bowl. Cover the bowl and let rise for 1 to 1½ hours. Dough should be about double in size when done.
- Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out to about a 1 inch thickness. Cut the doughnuts out as closely as possible. You can save the middles for doughnut holes. Move donuts and holes to a clean surface.
- Cover and let rise for 1 to 1½ hours.
- Once the donuts and holes are done rising, fry them in a large frying pan with vegetable oil until golden brown. - While donuts are frying make your Glaze. To make glaze mix 7 cups powdered sugar with ⅔ cup water, chocolate 2 cups and 2 tsp. vanilla. Add donuts to glaze as soon as they are done frying and make sure both sides are covered. Place on a plate to let excess glaze drain.
Add donuts to glaze as soon as they are done frying and make sure both sides are covered. Place on a plate or wire rack to let excess glaze drain. There are different variations of the glaze you can make. On National Doughnut Day, a food holiday of the utmost importance, we want everyone to embrace the joy of this pastry and make as many doughnuts at home, from scratch, as possible. While we admit that this is a lot more work than driving to your local Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme, you'll be amazed to see that doughnuts are even better than.
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