We Knead To Bake #6 : There’s Something About Doughnuts - Baked Yeasted Doughnuts (Regular, Glazed or Filled) - My Diverse Kitchen

We Knead To Bake #6 : There’s Something About Doughnuts - Baked Yeasted Doughnuts (Regular, Glazed or Filled)

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Ingredients

1/4 cup superfine sugar
1 cup milk warm (45C/115F)
3/4 tbsp yeast instant (or 1 tbsp active dry )
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsps vanilla extract
2 1/2 to 3 1/2 cups cake flour (or all-purpose flour) divided , plus more for kneading
100 gm butter , cut into cubes 1 inchs

For the topping:

75 to 100 gm butter , melted
1 cup superfine sugar (+ 2 tablespoons cinnamon, mixed together)
jam to fill your doughnuts

Instructions

Let them rise for about 20 minutes or till almost double in size and then bake them at 200C (400F) for about 5 to 10 minutes till theyu2019re done and golden brown. Do not over bake them.
This recipe makes about 12 to 14 doughnuts and holes.
Take them out of the oven and immediately brush them with the melted butter and then dip them into the cinnamon sugar mixture. If filling the doughnuts with jam, let them cool.
Put the jam into a piping bag with a writing nozzle/ tip and press into the doughnut from the side and gently press out the jam into the doughnut till it starts oozing out. Jam doughnuts do not need too much jam to fill them.
If glazing your doughnuts, let them cool completely and then dip one side of the doughnut in the glaze of your choice and let it set.

Notes

And to round off this post, here are some fun facts about doughnuts.

1. The average doughnut hole is 4/5” in diameter.

2. The glazed type of doughnut is more popular than any other type of doughnut.

3. The average calorie content of a glazed donut is about 200 calories, so perhaps eating five donuts per day would take care of daily calorie needs………..

4. It seems the U.S. alone makes more than 10 billion donuts every year, and the rest of the world makes its own versions. However, per capita, Canada has more donuts shops than any other country!

5. The largest donut ever made was an American-style jelly donut weighing 1.7 tons and measuring 16 feet!

6. Legend says that dunking donuts first became a trend when actress Mae Murray accidentally dropped a donut in her coffee.

7. On one of his expeditions, Admiral Richard Byrd took along 100 barrels of donut flour, enough for making two years' worth of doughnuts. Now that’s a doughnut lover for you!

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record for donut eating is held by one John Haight, who consumed 52 ounces of doughnuts (that’s about 700gms or about 26 average sized doughnuts)in just over six minutes in 1981. This, to my mind, can only be described as doughnut greed!

These yeasted and baked doughnuts are also getting YeastSpotted!