Homemade Raised Doughnuts

Is it crazy to make your own doughnuts?  A little...but they sure are tasty!  I just felt like making a batch and decided to film the process.  I'm not advocating making a habit of deep-frying sweet dough and rolling it in sugar very often, but once in a while it's a fun thing to do on a chilly afternoon.

By using the bread maker to mix, knead, and raise the dough, a lot of the work is taken care of by the unattended machine.  All that remains is the rolling of the dough and the cutting out of the donuts (which can be spelled either way, actually), and then frying.

It's been a long time since I've made doughnuts so I actually found two different donut cutters in my collection.  I used each of them, which along with the 'holes', produced 4 different sized products: the centres from the larger cutter were even big enough to fill with jam or custard (which I did not do, disappointing my son).

I fried my doughnuts in corn oil and rolled them in either powdered confectioner's sugar or a granulated sugar-cinnamon mix.  When surveyed, the family preferred the powdered ones.  I made notes to myself to use the smaller cutter next time because I can fit several smaller donuts into my deep fryer in one batch so the whole process goes a lot quicker.  They were a nice size for eating too!  (And that means you can have two!)  

Raised Doughnuts

3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp milk

1/3 cup water

1 large egg

3-1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

4 Tbsp vegetable shortening

2 tsp fast rise yeast

vegetable oil for frying donuts

Comments

[Joe/USA/OHIO]

An interesting video! I'll have to try and borrow a deep fryer from someone. Too bad bread machines do not come with a doughnut cycle:)