How to Make Donuts

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Why spend money on store-bought donuts when you can learn to make them at home? Read the story to find amazing recipes that easy to follow.

Making Donuts ...

... from Scratch

Ingredients Plain Flour, 1¼ lb Salt, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon Margarine, 3 tablespoons Confectioners' Sugar Vegetable Oil, for frying Extra sugar, for coating

Method

In a large bowl, sieve flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, sugar, and margarine, and mix well. As you knead, slowly add water to combine all the ingredients together.

You can even choose to knead the dough on your work station. Now, roll the dough out on a flat, wooden surface to ½" thick piece. Use a donut cutter that makes a hole in the middle of each piece.

Heat vegetable oil in a deep fryer and drop 2 to 3 donuts in to fry. Make sure you don't crowd the fryer. Let the donuts fry till you see a golden brown color all around. Remove donuts from the fryer and drain them on paper towels. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar on top and serve.

... using Basic Recipe

Ingredients Flour, 4½ cups Baking Powder, 4 teaspoons Nutmeg, 1 teaspoon Salt, ½ teaspoon Eggs, 2 Sugar, 1 cup Unsalted Butter (melted), 2 tablespoons Milk, 1 cup Vanilla, 1 teaspoon Confectioners' Sugar

Method

In a bowl, sieve flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt together. In a different bowl, beat eggs and sugar till the sugar dissolves and the eggs are beaten well.

Add butter, milk, and vanilla with the eggs, and mix properly. Add the dry and wet ingredients, and combine until a soft dough is formed. Then let the dough proof for an hour.

After an hour, roll the dough on a floured surface and cut donuts using a cutter. Fry it in oil until golden brown, remove from the oil, and drain on paper towels. Drizzle with confectioners' sugar and serve.

... with Glaze

Ingredients Lukewarm Milk, 2 cups Sugar, ½ cup Salt, 2 teaspoons Yeast (mixed in small quantity of water), 2 Eggs, 2 Shortening, ½ cup Flour, 7 cups

Vegetable Oil, for Frying Confectioner's Sugar Butter, 1 teaspoon Vanilla, 1 teaspoon Plain Gelatin (dissolved in ½ cup boiling water), 1 teaspoon

Method

In a bowl, combine milk, sugar, and salt, and mix properly till the sugar dissolves completely. Add shortening and eggs to it, and mix. Add the dissolved yeast and stir well again. Slowly add flour to make the dough, and leave aside to rise.

Roll out the dough and cut out donuts with a cutter. Fry them in the hot oil till they are brown in color. To make the glaze, mix confectioner's sugar, butter, vanilla, and dissolved gelatin, and bring it to boil. Dip the donuts in the syrup. Serve the donuts once the syrup sets.