I can’t pass one other minute with out telling you that those baked doughnuts…well, they may perhaps switch your life simply like they did mine.
INGREDIENTS
DOUGHNUTS:
- 1 1/3 cups warm milk, 95 to 105 degrees
- 2 teaspoons prompt yeast
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 big eggs
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- A pinch or NULL of nutmeg, freshly grated
- 1 teaspoon salt
TOPPING:
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place the nice and cozy milk within the bowl of an electrical mixer. Stir within the yeast and sugar. Add the butter. Mix the eggs, flour, nutmeg, and salt. Beat the dough with the dough hook attachment (or with a wood spoon and eventually your hands) for 2-3 minutes at medium speed. Adjust the dough texture with the aid of means of including flour a number of tablespoons at a time or extra milk. The dough have to pull clear of the facets of the bowl and be very tender and glossy but nonetheless quite sticky - do no longer overflour! Knead the dough for a number of minutes (again, with the aid of means of mixer or with the aid of means of hand) after which move the dough to a frivolously greased bowl. Cover the bowl and permit the dough rise for about an hour or till it has doubled in measurement (the precise time will rely at the temperature of your kitchen).
- Punch down the dough and roll it out to about 1/2-inch thickness on a frivolously floured counter. Using a doughnut cutter or a 2-3 inch circle cookie cutter, cut out circles within the dough. Carefully move the circles to a parchment- or silpat-lined baking sheet and stamp out the smaller inside circles utilizing a smaller cutter. Be certain to make the holes big sufficient that simply due to the fact the doughnuts rise back and bake, they do no longer fill within the doughnut gap with the puffiness of the dough. Cover the tray with frivolously greased plastic wrap. (At this point, you'll be able to refrigerate the doughnuts overnight or continue with the recipe.) Let the doughnuts rise for about one other 45 minutes, till they're puffed and virtually doubled.
- Bake in a 375 stage F oven till the bottoms are simply golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Start checking the doughnuts round minute 8. They have to nonetheless be light on top, no longer golden and browned, and simply barely baked through.
- Remove the doughnuts from the oven and permit cool for 1-2 minutes. Dip every one within the melted butter and toss or sprinkle with the cinnamon and sugar. Serve immediately.
NOTES
- These little beauties are greatest made and eaten the identical day, preferably warm proper from the oven. The vast information is that you'll be able to make the dough, roll and cut out the doughnuts the evening time earlier than and permit them do their moment growing within the fridge, covered. Remove them from the refrigerator and positioned them at the counter about an hour earlier than baking.
- I used prompt yeast within the recipe. If you basically have lively dry yeast on hand, evidence the yeast with 1/3 cup of the nice and cozy milk and the sugar till it's foaming earlier than including within the relaxation of the milk and proceeding with the recipe.
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Imagine the fluffiest, chewiest morsel of doughnut goodness, warm from the oven and coated in a wonderful butter, cinnamon-sugar mixture. And the doughnut holes? Utterly unreal.
Why is it that anything so bite-sized might be so addicting?
The amazing factor is that they're baked. BAKED! Baked and never fried.
I’m no longer arguing that those baked doughnuts are healthy, with the aid of means of any means, but in contrast to their fried cousins – well, I’ll take those soft, tender baked doughnuts any day.
I made a private aim earlier than baking those that I could basically consume NULL doughnut holes. Two. You know, limiting subtle sugars and carbs and blah, blah, blah, whatever, simply due to the fact I was powerless (powerless!) to consume much lower than five of the doughnut holes so as to achieve a excellent attitude on regardless of no matter if those have to be made again.