Quick and easy donuts

Ingredients
625g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
75g butter
75g sugar
1 egg
1 cup (250ml) milk
oil for deep frying

Preparation method
1. Sieve flour and baking powder into a bowl and rub in butter. Mix in the sugar.
2. In a separate bowl, beat egg and milk together, make a well in flour mix and pour in.
Mix together to form a soft dough.
3. Roll out dough on a well floured surface to about 1cm thickness and cut to shape of
choice. Personally I use 2 different sized biscuit cutters.
4. Cook in hot deep frying oil for 30 seconds, turn over and cook for a further 30 seconds
until golden brown.
5. Drain on kitchen paper. Roll in sugar or decorate and serve!

Crispy and Creamy Doughnuts

Ingredients (See nutrition)

2 sachets (7g) instant dry yeast

3 tablespoons warm water
1 1/2 cups (330 ml) lukewarm milk
125g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
150g butter
625g (5 cups) plain flour
310g (2 cups) icing sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
4 tableswpoons hot water or as needed
1 litre vegetable oil for frying

Preparation method
1. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water, and let stand for 5 minutes, or until foamy.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the yeast mixture, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, ½ of the butter
and ½ of the flour. Mix for a few minutes at low speed, or stirring with a wooden spoon.
3. Beat in remaining flour a little at a time, until the dough no longer sticks to the bowl.
Knead for about 5 minutes, or until smooth and elastic.
4. Place the dough into a greased bowl, and cover. Set in a warm place to rise until
double. Dough is ready if you touch it, and the indention remains.
5. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and gently roll out to 1cm thickness. Cut
with a doughnut cutter or a round biscuit cutter.
6. Let doughnuts sit out to rise again until they double in size, cover loosely with a cloth.
7. Melt remaining butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in icing sugar and vanilla
until smooth. Remove from heat, and stir in hot water one tablespoon at a time until the
icing is thin, but not watery. Set aside.
8. Heat oil in a deep-fryer or a deep heavy pan to 175 C. Slide doughnuts into the hot oil
using a wide spatula. Turn doughnuts over as they rise to the surface.
9. Fry doughnuts on each side until golden brown.
10. Remove from hot oil and drain on a wire rack.
11. Dip doughnuts into the glaze while still hot, and set onto wire racks to drain off
excess.

Delicious Homemade Donuts

Ingredients

Donuts
1 (1/4 ounce) package active dry yeast

1/2 cup lukewarm 2% low-fat milk

1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, beaten
1 tablespoon butter, melted and cooled
vegetable oil, for frying

Fillings and Toppings

fruit preserves (or pudding, cream filling, etc)
cinnamon sugar
confectioners' sugar
chocolate icing

Directions
1 In a small bowl mix the yeast with the milk and sugar. Let sit until foamy, about 10
minutes. In a mixing bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine flour and
salt. When yeast is ready, add that to the mixing bowl.
2 Add the egg and butter. Begin to mix the ingredients into a soft, but not sticky, dough.
(Add a little extra milk or extra flour, 1 tablespoon at a time as needed). Knead dough
until smooth and elastic. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, cover, and let rise
until doubled in size, about 2 hours.
3 Punch down the dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for a few
seconds. With a lightly floured rolling pin, gradually roll out the dough to about 1/2-inch
thick. (When rolling dough, let it rest periodically to relax). Cut out into 3" rounds with a
lightly floured biscuit cutter. Re-roll the scraps to make more rounds.
4 Place the doughnuts on lightly floured baking sheets, spacing them apart, and cover
lightly with a dry towel. Let rise in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 20 minutes.
5 Using a deep fryer (or fill a heavy pot with 3" vegetable oil) and heat to 325°F Fry the
doughnuts, a few at a time, until golden and puffed, 5-7 minutes, turning frequently using
a slotted spoon.
6 Lift the doughnuts from the oil and place onto a cooling rack. Fill using filling of
choice in a pastry bag. Insert the tip into the end of each doughnut and pipe
approximately 1-2 tsp filling into them. Dust with confectioners' sugar, coat with
chocolate icing, or dip in glaze, and serve.

Fried Donuts
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 3/4 teaspoons nutmeg
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons liquid shortening (or vegetable oil)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
3 cups flour

icing
2 cups powdered sugar
1-2 tablespoon milk

Directions
1 Mix sugar, spices, salt, and baking powder.
2 Add shortening and vanilla; mix.
3 Add eggs, mix.
4 Add milk and flour; mix.
5 Drop into hot oil using donut dropper. (if mixture is too thick mix in a bit of milk-too
thin a bit of flour).
6 Fry in oil turning when first crack appears. -be careful not to crowd.
7 Remove and place on either a drying rack or brown paper bag to drain oil.
8 Ice while warm with powdered sugar icing.