I live next door to a dunkin donughts, but I figure if I'm going to have a doughnut, its going to be a good one damnit!
So i made my own.
This recipe has 2 disclaimers:
1) The dough needs to sit for 8 hours (or overnight), then another hour, so dont plan on making doughnuts link right now.
2) Having doughnuts in the house is dangerous.
This was actually a really fun thing to make, I loved it. And it didnt make like crappy krispy cremes, it made there awesome fluffy delicious doughnuts, like you would get at a small family owned bakery .
What you need:
For the dough:
1 and 1/8 cup warm milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 and 1/4 teaspoon yeast (One package of fleischmans)
2 beaten eggs
1 and 1/4 stick of butter (10 tablespoons)
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
I'm not sure why I had mexican sugar
Canola or vegetable oil for frying
For the glaze:
3 cups of powder sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup milk
What you need to do:
1) First thing you need to do it put the DOUGH hook thing onto your kitchen aid. If you dont have a kitchen aid with a dough hook then your just gonna have to do a lot more kneading.
2) Microwave your milk for like 1 minute until its warm. You dont want it too hot cuz ew but it needs to be warm to dissolve the yeast in it.
3) Add the sugar to the milk and mix it
4) Put your yeast into a bowl
And pour the milk/sugar into it.
5) Mix it a little and let it sit for 10 minutes to dissolve.
Yeast is like a crazy ex girlfriend. It does what it wants when it wants. If it doesn't wanna rise, it wont. If it wants to smell your cologne it'll break into your house while your at work. So dont mess with yeast. Let it do its thing.
6) Meanwhile, put your butter in the microwave for like 30 seconds till its almost melted. Your mixing it with eggs so you dont want it too hot or else it'll cook the eggs and gross.
7) Beat your eggs like the guus on law and orderbeat their wives. SHOW NO MERCY
8) Add the eggs to the butter and beat it together with a fork.
9) Put the eggs/butter thing into the kitchen aid with a dough hook and star beating it on like medium (If it has numbers I did mine on 3)
10) While its beating pour your craaaaaazy yeast in.
And keep mixing till its all combined.
11) Put the flour and salt into a bowl and whatever combine it.
12) And start adding the flour in like 1/2 cup servings to the kitchen aid. Let mix for like 5 seconds between each serving ( I know serving isnt the word but my mind is blanking ont he right word!!!) (Its way easy if you use the kitchen aid thing that makes it not splatter)
Keep adding flour till its all gone
13) Mix the dough for like a solid 8 minutes at least. Till it reeeeeally becomes dough.
14) Scrape the bowl just to make sure its all together, mix for 30 more seconds, and done.
15) Put the dough into a bowl sprayed with pam and let it sit for like 10 minutes just to settle itself.
16) Cover it with PLASTIC WRAP, and put it in the fridge for 8 hours. I made mine at like 230 on monday and left it for almost a full day, until 1 on tuesday. It was fine.
17) This is the next day (no one drank the carrot juice). Its clearly much bigger.
18) whip it Outta the fridge and start right away. You want your dough cold! Flour your counter and plop the dough onto it and flour the top of the dough, and a rolling pin.
19 ) Roll the dough out thin, like 1/2 an inch thin.
20) Lightly flour a pan so you can put the doughnuts onto it.
21) and start cutting them out. I dont have a cookie cutter so I used a glass, which was like 3 inches wide.
22) Now cut the donught holes! I still dont have a cookie cutter so I used like a 1 inch spice top.
23) Put it all onto a tray and cover them with a towel. leave it to rise in a WARM place. I turned my hot plate thing on for a minute, turned it off, then let the trays sit on it for an hour. Just let it rise for an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes in a warm place.
And look how much fluffier it got!!!
24) now its crunch time. Grab a pot and put a nice amount of corn/canola/veggie oil. Let it get hot. If you have a candy thermometer thats awesome, the pil needs to be a steady 375 degrees. If not, it should heat for like 10 minutes on hot then like 7 minutes on medium/low.
25) While its getting hot, make your glaze. Just put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk it up
26) Once your oil is hot enough your good to go. Grab like 2 trays and line them with ALOT of paper towel. Your gonna want to try and get off as much oil as possible.
27) Use a slatted spatula and put the first doughnut in the oil. Let it cook on one side for 30-45 seconds, till its nice and brown.
28) When the bottom is starting to brown, flip it and cook the other side for another 30-45 seconds.
29) Take it out, and put it on the paper towel. Flip it after like 5 seconds so both sides get a chance to drain. Put it aside (on more paper towels) and fry and drain the rest of them!
30) When your doughnuts are done, do the holes. They take 10-20 seconds on each side.
31) Drain the holes and your ready for the last step!! the glaze! I was looking for something that I could use as a cooling rack, and then i found a cooling rack. Weird, i know. If you dont have one just use anything with slots that you can suspend, and put it over a piece of tinfoil.
32) Put a doughnut into the glaze, and flip it over to coat it. repeat with each doughnut, and done! Do it twice if you like a lot of glaze, personally I only like one coat.
33) Let them drip on the rack, and cool a little and then dONE!!!! THERE READY TO BE EATEN!!!! AHHHHHH
