Blog 5

This recipe is about how to make homemade doughnuts. Doughnuts have always been my
favorite dessert. When I was younger and really liked doughnuts, I was eager to make them
myself but I felt as though I didn't have the skills necessary to do so. While I lived in the bay
area in California and was attending middle school, my dad looked up a recipe on the internet
to see if he could make doughnuts for me. One day after I came back home from school, my
dad had made his own doughnuts using this recipe. It was an amazing surprise. This is perhaps
one of my fondest memories relating to food. They took a little while to make but they are by far
the best doughnuts I’ve ever eaten.

Ingredients:

1 cup of whole milk

1/4 cup of granulated sugar and, separately,1 teaspoon of granulated sugar

2 1/4 teaspoons of active dry yeast

4 cup of all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt

6 tablespoons of melted butter

2 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract

Canola or vegetable oil for frying

Directions:

Grease a large bowl with cooking spray and then set it aside. Then add milk in a separate
small bowl. Microwave  the milk for about 40 seconds or until it's warm. Add a teaspoon of
sugar into the bowl of milk and stir until it's dissolved then sprinkle over yeast and let sit for
about 8 minutes.

Whisk together flour and salt in a medium sized bowl. Then, in a large bowl, whisk together
remaining sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla. Pour the yeast mixture into the bowl of wet
ingredients, mix it, then add in dry ingredients. Stir the mix until the dough begins to take
shape. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead it until stretchy and elastic for about 5 minutes.

Shape the dough into a tight ball and then place it into the oiled bowl and cover with saran
wrap or a plate. Let dough rest and let it rise in your kitchen until doubled in size for about
1 hour. Don't put it in the oven for this step.

Put parchment paper on a baking sheet. Take the dough and roll out into a half inch thick
rectangle. Use a cutting tool or bowl to punch out your doughnut shapes. Place doughnuts
on the baking sheet and let them rest again for about a half hour.

To make a glaze, mix milk, powdered sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Set this aside; it
will be put on the doughnuts after they bake.

In a dutch oven, heat about 2 inches worth of oil to 350 degrees. Cook the doughnuts until
they are the perfect golden brown on both sides. This will be about 1 minute per side.

Move the cooked doughnuts onto a paper towel and pour the glaze on with a spoon. Or,
you can dip the doughnuts into the glaze mix.