Doughnuts

Leena was kid of the week last week, and she asked me, as she had several times before, if we could make home made doughnuts.

The fact is, I got a doughnut cutter (that's the concentric metal circle thing)  four or five years ago, and I hadn't used it yet.

It was time to make the doughnuts!


The kids loved them.  I thought they were pretty good, but a little too.. bread like?  And it was a four hour project! For four hours it needs to be completely amazing.

I used the New Best Recipes recipe for yeasted doughnuts, and they used what was essentially a sweet, wet, bread dough with a 2 1/2 hour first rise and a 45 minute second rise.  It wasn't as bad as that sounds - I made the dough before we left for Sunday Mass, so the first rise was pretty easy. Except that Mass was at 7 am. :O

Anyway, I frosted the doughnuts with raspberry frosting and sprinkles, and rolled the holes in cinnamon sugar, so they were well received, but next time  I'd like to try a different recipe, maybe one that could rise overnight, or a cake doughnut recipe like this one.