HOME-MADE DONUTS

You don’t need any excellent culinary skills to make donuts, anyone can do it! All you need is plenty of time. With the lock down in place, you have plenty of time. 🙂

Tips for the dough. The very first step in creating donuts is blooming your yeast, dissolve sugar into lukewarm milk, then stir in the yeast. To test if your dough is ready, lightly press your thumb into the dough. In about 5 seconds or so, the dough should bounce almost completely back.

Let the dough rise. Donut dough needs to rise twice. First, the dough itself, then the punched out donuts. While the second rise is happening, begin heating up your oil and making your glaze!

HOME-MADE DONUTS

Ingredients:

1 cup milk
¼ cup xylitol sugar
10 grams active dry yeast
4 cups cake wheat flour
½ tsp salt
6 tbsp melted butter
2 large eggs
½ tsp vanilla essence
½ cup lemon juice
Canola oil for frying

Ingredients for glaze:

1 cup icing sugar
¼ cup milk
½ tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp cocoa powder

Instructions:

In a bowl, pour milk and microwave for 1 minute. Add 1 tsp of sugar and stir into the milk. Sprinkle the yeast over the milk and let it sit for 10 minutes.
In a small bowl, whisk the eggs, yeast mixture, sugar, vanilla essence and butter together.
In a large bowl, pour the flour and salt and add the whisked egg mixture to the flour. Mix well with a spatula until a dough is formed.
Knead the dough for 5 minutes and let the dough sit for 1 hour in a warm spot in your kitchen. Cover the dough with a clean dish towel.
Knead the dough again and roll it out into a rectangular shape. Use a donut cutter to create donut rings and let them rise for 40 minutes.
In a large pot, pour canola oil and bring to medium heat.
Fry the donuts in batches until golden brown on both sides.
Transfer donuts to paper towel-lined baking sheet to drain and cool slightly. Dip the donuts into glaze, then place onto a cooling rack.

Instructions for glaze: