How to Make Delicious Homemade Donuts
96Easy, Homemade Donuts
Making homemade donuts is not as hard as it looks. The only real equipment that you need is a deep fryer.
There are two major kinds of donuts, those that are leavened, or raised with yeast, and those that are leavened with baking powder or baking soda. There are differences in the two types, but both are delicious.
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There are a few tricks and tips that will help you achieve the perfect donut:
- Make sure the oil is hot, 370 Degrees works best for me.
- Don't overload the fryer. Fry only three or four at a time.
- Flip the donuts as the rise to the top and are light golden on the underside, do not over-fry.
- Use the softest dough possible. Refrigerate to keep it workable.
- Use clean oil
- Let finished donuts drain into the fryer for a few minutes before removing them to drain on absorbent paper
- Use the donut cutter in a straight down motion, without twisting.
Recipe for Basic Cake Donuts
This is the easiest recipe for cake doughnuts that I have. I use it over and over again, varying it with different topping and icings.
- 4 1/2 c flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 c sugar
- 2 Tbs unsalted butter, melted
- 1 c milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Sift together the dry ingredients.
Beat eggs with sugar until light. Add butter, mil, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix until a soft dough is formed. Do not over mix. If dough is too soft to roll, chill it for an hour.
Roll dough out 3/8 inch thick on a floured surface and cut with donut cutters. Fry in 370 degree oil until golden on both sides, turning once.
Remove from oil, hold over hot oil for a few minutes to drain, and then finish draining on absorbent paper. While still warm shake in sugar, sugar- cinnamon mixture, dip in glaze of choice, or dust with powdered sugar. 3 dozen
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Yeast Raised Donut Recipe
Yeast makes these donuts light and airy.
- 2 c milk
- 1/2 c unsalted butter
- 1 c sugar
- 1 tbs salt
- 1 pkg yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/4 c warm water
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 c mashed potatoes, no salt or pepper
- 3 egg yolks
- 8 c flour
Scald milk. Stir in butter, salt, and 1c sugar . Cool to lukewarm.
Sprinkle 1 tsp sugar, and yeast over water. Set aside for 5 minutes. Add to milk mixture. Add baking powder, baking soda, potatoes. yolks, and 2 c of flour to milk. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth. 2 minutes.
Add remaining flour gradually, beating well. Dough will be soft. Place in greased bowl, grease top and cover. Let rise for two hours.
Turn dough out and roll on floured surface, 1/4 inch thick.Cut with floured cutter. Cover and let rise one hour.
Fry a few at a time until golden. Drain. Glaze, frost, roll in sugar, or eat plain.
3 1/2 dozen
Finishes
Finishing donuts is a matter of taste. The most common things to put on them are:
- glaze
- sugar
- cinnamon sugar
- powdered sugar
- icing
There are, however, many recipes for each of these things. One of the best plain glaze recipes follows:
1/3 c boiling water mixed with 1 c confectioners sugar. Mix well and dip warm donuts in mixture.
To coat with nuts- after dipping donut in glaze, roll in chopped nuts, or even sprinkles.
To coat with sugar easily- put sugar or cinnamon sugar mixture in a paper lunch bag. Put warm donut in and shake.
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You can easily make the donuts ahead of time and freeze them. For best results lay unglazed donuts in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze until frozen through. Place frozen donuts in a ziploc bag and place in a freezer.
When ready to eat heat, in a 400 degree oven for about ten minutes.
Donuts are an inexpensive treat when made at home. And surely the love involved cancels out the calories, don't you think?
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Canceled calories are the norm for sure. Marye! Funny that you would post this hub today on Valentines day. Homemade donuts were my treat to the kids every year on Feb 14th. ( a good way to also use up last years chocolat Santas and Easterbunnies from the freezer too. For a chocolate glaze melt chocolat in doubleboiler add a little butter and couple of spoons of condensed milk. Dip one side etc...) Obviously, the extra effort will also cancel out the extra calories.
great HUB regards Zsuzsy
Alton Brown did homemade doughnuts on the FoodNetwork and has tempted me to try them ever since! You may have talked me into this, Marye!
OK, now I'm hungry! =)
These look great! My mom used to make homemade cake donuts in the fryer when I was young. This totally takes me back down memory lane. I'll have to try this out with my kiddos.
Yummy! I can't wait to try these with my morning coffee.
Looks awesome, the ingredients are much better than the high fats donuts we get. Thanks for sharing the recipes. Cheers.
I love doughnuts but have never tried to make them, thanks for the info.
Ooooh sounds yummy greats. Loved your demo too. Will give it a try one of these days! All the best to you, Sylvia
Ps. something went wrong when I tried to thumb up. Will try again.
These sound devine! My grandmother and great-grandmother (both women part German and Russian) used to make donuts - before adding donuts to the hot oil, they'd take the pot off the heat and put it in the middle of the floor. Then, they'd carefully/quickly dump a shot of vodka in the oil - they clamed it helped prevent the donut from soaking up the grease. :)
They always made the most melt-in-your-mouth donuts I've ever had!
PS I'm too much of a chicken to try that one :)
useful!
Now that I have learnt to make dobuts, I may try it. Most of the time I used to buy it in the shops. Cant beat home made.
Great lens! I suppose it's time to look into buying a deep fryer!
We live a couple of blocks for a bakery, but I still have to give these a try.
Good one.
Thanks for sharing
Hmmmmm definately going to try "Finishes" but i'll have to wait as I am dieting LoL
the basic cake donuts look like the most tasty ones on this page. but then again, where do you begin? donut shops should offer homemade varieties to their standard varieties. it's all yummy.
Wow! This is wonderful. Thank you so much. I promised my dad donuts for his birthday. Now, I can keep that promise. Yum!
i am a filipina from philippines and i am interested to make this donut thanks for rachelray i love her show
i am a mother of 2 son
Oh my I new to Hubs, and saw your article on making donuts. I went got the ingredients. My nephews love donuts.
Thank you
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now i know how to make donuts ill make em for the family Reuion thanks
Great hub! You did a wonderful job in providing the info for how to make donuts!
Hi Mary,
You lead such an interesting life. I'm going to do a piece on you over at my Alternative Health blog and will link to some of your HubPages to send traffic your way.
I, too, like making homemade donuts and will try your recipe.
Great page - and awesome video :-)
Just made a note to use your recipe tomorrow.
i love doughnuts have to try these
Now I've got to get something to eat! Wish I had time to make these, and the capacity for the extra calories.
I love donuts especially with lots of sugar. Very unhealthy after eating I will drink lots of green tea.
Yummy!
Lead me not into temptation..........ah , what the hell ! I'm here already........
Oh, it will be the site that is acting cruelly how! I regret that I visited this site. Because the reason is because the devil in the heart speaks to me. "Eat this appetizing doughnut"! When the person fighting with a scale looks at this site like "me, the things of the scale thing forgetting eternally will be certain!
I gotta agree with edamame...why put up devilishly tempting products made with processed flour and way too sugary toppings, and fried to boot! We're all pretty addicted to these three things...but finding luscious tempting foods that we can know in our brains are so much better for our bodies, our minds seems like a much saner activity than salivating over these donuts! Why don't you just go ahead and show the fat bodies with their high blood pressures and diabetes and clogged artieries along with those donut photos!
Well, desert, because foods in moderation are not a problem for healthy adults. I am 48, Husband is 49..we have eaten this way our whole lives...
He is 6 ft 6 and was at 225 lbs until he was disabled last summer (military connected) ...he is now around 170. I am 5'4" and have given birth to 8 kids...I am a little over what I like to be but at 150 lbs I am wearing a size 10..hardly obese. Blood pressures? His is 106/70 and mine runs about 110/75. None of our 8 children are overwieght..nor does anyone have diabetes. In fact, we don't carry health insurance because, other than Marcs disability covered by the VA, we rarely get sick.
So...I suggest moderate eating, self discipline, and and active lifestyle...
I wondered how those holes got in the doughnuts!!! I think I gained 5 lbs reading your hub....i could smell them....sigh. Marisue
Great Hub! Thanks
Marisue..go read a hub about exercise...quick!
Steve..thanks
These look super good, such a great hub!
chantel thanks..
Des...you should try making some.
oh my gosh, I second an earlier comment that this makes me want to get a deep fryer. They look delicious Marye. :)
Yummy, great hub :) I make donuts from canned biscuits :)
great hub,i have been looking for some great donut recipes that you bake ,instead of deep frying,but these look so yummy i may have to do it the old fashiones way and deep fry them.thanks for letting me drool .
Looks yummy. Great.....but i'm in diet program....:(
yummy, thanks!
sound too good but buying a deep fryer...yikes...that's just asking for it...i may borrow one though...thanks
i have a food business for quite some time now, and before reading your hub, ive got some plans on bringing in the deserts into my product line, i could just buy a book or surf the net to find out how donuts are made, but its really different to get information first hand from experts like you, would it be cool if i can ask you for some tips , tweaks or opinions on other matters on deserts later ? i just love your recipe hubs! :), keep up the great work!
sure just let me know what you need. :)
Those cruellers look amazing. I just want to sit down with a cup of espresso and eat them!
Well written hub
Marye,
I would like to be a guest for breakfast too, especially with the look of those crullers. I have never attempted to make donuts, but with your explanation I might give it a try! Thanks.
excellent hub! =) those donuts are making me hungry
oh my gosh I remember home made donuts - I had forgotten! This hub inspires me to be much more domestic!
Those donuts look delicious. Great hub. Thanks!
Try using refridgerated busquit dough. Cut a hole in the middle and fry up. Wonderful. My kids ate 10, like we had just visited Dunken Donuts. I used Cinnamon and Sugar. Will try the Glaze next.
Great Hub! I'd like to try with a sugar substitute like splenda.
With all the pictures and all the good descriptions on this page I am craving a donut now! Good post!
MMM... they sound yummy! Gonna try all four recipes! I used to love that chef from the muppets... hehe.
ProCW
These recipes sound great. I have wanted a fresh donut for a long time. I used to get fresh ones from Dunkin Donuts. But now they ship them to the different locations instead of making them in the actual shop. So they never have fresh ones. They never taste as good after being shipped.
Yummy... thanks for the recipe, I will surely make one.
Wow! This looks fun and delicious. I love to make one for my grandchildrens.
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Bob Ewing says:
7 months ago
I'd have to make them sugar free but one day i gotta try this.