how do you make doughnuts?

Answer 1

Here is a recipe for a plain cake doughnut.

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 quart oil for frying
optional - powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar mixture
PREPARATION:
For draining doughnuts, prepare a place with either newspapers or a brown paper bag. Top those with paper towels. Either flour clean kitchen counter or bread board for kneading doughnuts. Prepare a shallow bowl or plate with an inch of flour.
Heat oil in deep fryer to 375 degrees F.
Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk and egg. With floured hands, lightly knead the smooth dough. Turn onto area prepared with flour. Pat dough into 1/4 inch thickness. Dip either doughnut cutter or two biscuit cutters (one 1-inch and one 3 or 4-inch) in flour. Use to cut-out doughnuts. Carefully drop doughnuts into hot oil, only a few at a time. Fry, turning once, for about 3 minutes or until golden brown. Drain on prepared paper towels. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or cinnamon-sugar mixture.

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Happy Baking!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

BAKED DONUTS ARE BETTER O HERES A RECIPE

Baked Doughnuts

2 pk Dry yeast

1/3 c Warm water

1 1/2 c Milk

1/3 c Vegetable shortening

1/4 c Sugar

2 Ts Salt

2 Ts Nutmeg

2 Eggs, lightly beaten

4 1/2 c Flour

1/2 c Melted butter

1 c Sugar mixed w/1 tsp cinnamon

1. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a small bowl and let it dissolve for 5 minutes. Put the milk and shortening in a saucepan and heat until the shortening is melted. Cool to lukewarm.

2. Pour the yeast mixture into a large mixing bowl and add the milk mix. Stir in the 1/4 cup sugar, salt, nutmeg, eggs and 2 cups flour. Beat briskly until well blended. Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups flour and beat until smooth. Cover the bowl and let double in bulk, about 1 hour.

3. Dust a board generously with flour and turn the dough mass onto it. This dough is soft and needs enough flour on the board to prevent sticking, but is easy to handle. Pat the dough into a round about 1/2 inch thick. Use a 3 inch doughnut cutter and cut out the doughnuts, placing them (and the doughnut holes) on greased baking sheets, 1 inch apart. These don't spread much; they rise. Preheat oven to 450F. Let the doughnuts rest and rise for 20 minutes uncovered. Bake about 10 minutes or a little longer, until they have a touch of golden brown. Remove from the oven. Have ready the melted butter and a brush. On a sheet of wax paper, spread the cinnamon sugar. Brush each doughnut and doughnut hole with butter and roll in the cinnamon sugar. Serve hot.

Yield: 2 dozen

AUTHOR: Chyrel

Answer 3

Step-by-step directions for making Alice Horton's cake doughnuts for your family. Ingredients need are listed below the directions.
2 Eggs
1 c. Sugar
1 c. Milk
5 tbl. Melted Shortening
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
4 c. all-purpose Flour
4 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 stick Butter
Vegetable spray or cooking Oil

Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 45 minutes - 2 hours
Here's How:
1. Beat eggs until foamy in a large mixing bowl. Once eggs become foamy, slowly add sugar, beating continually. Stir in milk, shortening and vanilla.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add these dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing well. Cover and chill the dough for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray or grease the baking sheet with vegetable oil or cooking spray.
4. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut out using a doughnut cutter and placing on baking sheet 1 inch apart.
5. Bake until golden brown approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

TIps: For a cinnamon sugar coating, brush doughnut with melted butter and roll in a mixture of 1 cup Sugar and 1 tsp. Cinnamon.

Answer 4

DOUGHNUTS

Vegetable oil, for frying
3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons shortening
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk

Heat oil (2 to 3 inches) in deep-fat fryer or heavy kettle to 375 F. Beat 1 1/2 cups of the flour and the remaining ingredients in large mixer bowl on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, 2 minutes. Stir in remaining flour.

Turn dough onto well-floured cloth-covered board; roll around lightly to coat with flour. Roll gently 3/8 inch thick. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Slide doughnuts into hot oil with wide spatula. Turn doughnuts as they rise to surface. Fry until golden brown, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes on each side.

Remove from oil; do not prick doughnuts. Drain on paper towels.

Serve plain, sugared or frosted. 2 dozen doughnuts.

Serving Size: 8

Answer 5

Wow - I never actually ever considered how a doughnut was made.. I tend to just eat them before realising they're all gone. I really must hunt down the recipe for them now and try making my own batch!

Answer 6

Back in the day we use to take the biscuits in the can and poke a hole in them then drop in very hot oil until lightly brown then we would sprinkle with sugar. Now that I am all grown up....

Applesauce Doughnuts

3 1/3 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 cup applesauce
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons shortening
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
Vegetable oil
Cinnamon-sugar mixture, if desired


1 . Beat 1 1/3 cups of the flour and the remaining ingredients except oil and cinnamon-sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, until blended. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in remaining 2 cups flour. Cover and refrigerate about 1 hour or until dough stiffens.
2 . Heat oil (2 to 3 inches) in deep fryer or 3-quart saucepan to 375ºF. Divide dough in half. Place half of the dough on well-floured cloth-covered surface; gently roll in flour to coat. Gently roll dough 3/8 inch thick. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Repeat with remaining dough.
3 . Slide dough nuts into hot oil, using wide spatula. Turn dough nuts as they rise to surface. Fry 1 to 1 1/2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Carefully remove from oil (do not prick surfaces); drain on paper towels. Sprinkle hot doughnuts with cinnamon-sugar.

Answer 7

NaNa's Donuts

1 can refrigerator biscuits (we prefer buttermilk)

Tear a hole in the center

Fry until golden brown on both sides in a pan of hot oil :)

Answer 8

We used to make "donuts" in high school by frying the cheapest biscuit dough you can buy in the store and sprinkling powdered sugar over them. While they weren't the same as you buy at Shipley's or Krispy Kreme, they were pretty tasty.

Answer 9

first you make the dough
then u roll it out
then cut out circles
drop the circles in to hot oil
and leave on each side for 45 seconds
then flip
then let cool before eating

Answer 10

I use the canned tube refrigerated type biscuits, cut each one into 4ths and deep fry. Drain and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar while still hot. MMMMMMMM