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Soft Homemade Doughnuts

These melt in your mouth soft homemade doughnuts are so delicious, perfect and airy. Top with melted chocolate, glaze or just cinnamon sugar, and watch these little rings of delight disappear off the plate in record time.
Course Dessert
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Rising time 59 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 15 -20 doughnuts
Author Ashika | Gardening Foodie

Ingredients

DRY INGREDIENTS

  • 5 cups all purpose / cake flour
  • ½ cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 ½ teaspoons instant dry yeast

WET INGREDIENTS

  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • cup vegetable shortening or butter
  • Oil for deep frying

Instructions

  • Using a large bowl, combine the instant dry yeast, sugar, flour, and salt. ( Dry ingredients )
  • In a jug or saucepan, warm the milk and water. It should be just warm, not too hot or cold. If you have a thermometer, it should read between 100° - 115°F ( 37°C - 46°C)
  • Add beaten eggs, shortening, or butter to the warm milk and water mixture ( wet ingredients).
  • Add the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix to combine.
  • Turn out onto a floured surface, and knead for about 3 to 5 minutes until the dough is soft and smooth. If you find that the dough is too sticky, then add up to ¼ cup extra flour while kneading.
  • Place the dough back into the bowl and in a warm, draft-free area of your kitchen, allow the dough to double in volume. This should take an hour.
  • After an hour, punch down the dough and turn it out onto a floured surface. Using your palms press out the dough to about ½ inch ( 1 ½ cm ) thick and cut out the doughnuts using a doughnut or cookie cutter. If you are using a cookie-cutter, then cut out the center of each doughnut using a smaller cutter as well.
  • Place the cutout doughnuts onto a tray and leave to rise again for about 15 to 20 minutes.
  • Using a deep pan or pot, add sufficient oil to deep fry the doughnuts.
  • Allow the oil to heat up to between 350°F - 370°F ( 176°C - 185°C ) before you start to fry the doughnuts.
  • Deep fry the doughnuts for about 1 minute on each side, until cooked and golden brown.
  • Transfer the doughnuts to a plate lined with a paper towel
  • Top or frost as preferred
  • Topping suggestion : cinnamon sugar, melted chocolate, glace icing.

Nutrition

Serving: 1doughnut | Calories: 253kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 177mg | Potassium: 119mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 2mg
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