{"id":1987,"date":"2012-07-21T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T02:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:47:37","slug":"doughnuts-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Doughnuts ( Donuts )"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my first time trying to make doughnuts . I’ve made italian doughnuts before , but i never made american doughnuts . So this afternoon , after gone almost all day , i thought .. i still wanted to do something , i didn’t want to relax and sit down , like my husband and my son wanted to do .Instead i came up with an idea .. i want to try making doughnuts . How hard can it be anyway , right ?? I’ve made breads from scratch before , and yeast doughnuts .. shouldn’t be too much difference ..<\/p>\n

So , there i was , mixing the batter and stuff .. i’ve got everything on hand , there was nothing in particular that i needed , it was a quick process making the dough . As always with any bread stuff , waiting period is the longest time . Then i thought .. what am i going to cut these doughnuts with ? i didn’t have any biscuit cutter .. i didn’t have doughnuts cutter , eventually i picked a cup , and i floured the edges and using it to cut the doughnuts , and for the hole in the middle i just had to cut it manually with knife . Not so perfect but .. at the end , i was happy with the result ! And my son was happy with it too … if you couldn’t tell from his look !! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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You need :\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Tbsp. of warm water ( about 110 f ) and then sprinkle 2 1\/4 tsp. of active dry yeast , let it sit til it gets foamy for about 5 minutes . While you prepare :\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a large bowl , add all these ingredients :<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup of sugar<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp. of salt<\/p>\n

1 egg<\/p>\n

2 tbsp. plus 2 tsp. of shortening , melted , cooled<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup of lukewarm milk<\/p>\n

2 \u00a0cups of all purpose flour<\/p>\n

Mix all these together with the yeast mixture . Then add 1\/2 cup more all purpose flour , and you might need more if the dough is too sticky , it needs to be elastic by the time you’re done kneading it for 8 minutes . So it depends on your humidity in your area .. you could need more or less than 2 1\/2 cups . I used almost 3 cups of flour . Once you are done kneading , place in a buttered bowl , and cover with plastic wrap in a warm area until it doubles . About 1 hour \u00a0Then roll the dough out in about 1\/2 inch thickness , and using a doughnut cutter , cut the dough . Place in a cookie sheet and cover with plastic wrap , let it sit again in a warm place to double in size for about 1 more hour .<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Then heat up oil in a small pot , and fry the doughnuts until golden brown . Becareful because it gets brown really quick . Set aside once it’s done .<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Make the glaze :\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Chocolate glaze<\/p>\n

1\/2 stick of unsalted butter<\/p>\n

4 oz of semi sweet chocolate chip<\/p>\n

1\/8 cup of milk<\/p>\n

1 tbsp. corn syrup ( optional )<\/p>\n

1 tsp. vanilla<\/p>\n

Heat milk , butter , vanilla and corn syrup in a small pot . Then turn the heat low , add in the chocolate chips , whisk , keep whisking until melted . Add 1 cup of powdered sugar , and keep whisking . Turn the heat off , and use the glaze immediately on the doughnuts . Dip in , and place on a parchment paper , and decorate , or just serve plain .\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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For Maple Glazed doughnuts :<\/p>\n

2 cups of powdered sugar<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp. of maple extract<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup of milk or less<\/p>\n

Mix all ingredients together with whisk .<\/p>\n

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For Vanilla glazed doughnuts :<\/p>\n

1 cup of powdered sugar<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup of milk<\/p>\n

1 tsp. of vanilla extract<\/p>\n

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easy donuts recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-desserts","category-desserts-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}