American Cuisine
Doughnut ingredients:
- 2 ¼ tsp active dry yeast (¼ oz, one packet).
- 1 ¼ cups milk, warmed to about 100f.
- 1 cup (8 oz, 2 sticks) unsalted butter at room
temperature.
- ¼ cup sugar.
- 3 eggs.
- 1 tsp salt.
- 5 cups flour.
- Oil for frying.
Chocolate glaze ingredients:
- ½ cup unsalted butter.
- ¼ cup whole milk, warmed.
- 1 tbsp light corn syrup.
- 2 tsp vanilla extract.
- 4 oz bittersweet chocolate.
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted.
Doughnut directions:
- Mix yeast and milk together and let it sit about 7 to 10
minutes until the yeast begins to bubble.
- Cream the butter and sugar together.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each
addition.
- Add the salt.
- Mix in the flour alternating with the yeast mixture, so
you are beginning and ending with the flour.
- You want a soft dough, but not so soft that you cannot
knead it,so you may need a little more flour if the dough seems too soft for
you to knead.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until
smooth and elastic.
- Let rise, covered, in a bowl lightly sprayed with pan
spray until doubled in bulk.
- On a floured surface, roll out about ½″ thick, cut into
rounds with the hole in the center.
- Cover with plastic wrap or a damp towel and let double in
bulk again.
- Heat your oil to 375f in a heavy bottomed saucepan deep
enough for the doughnuts to be able to rise to the top and float.
- Carefully add the doughnuts to the oil. Brown on one side
and turn the doughnuts with 2 chopsticks.
- Drain the doughnuts on some paper towel.
- Glaze while still warm.
- You can put some powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar or
coconut, etc… into a brown paper bag and when the holes come out of the oil,
put them in the bag with the sugar and shake it up to coat them.
- You can also fill your doughnuts with a pastry bag fitted
with a small plain tip and filled with jelly or your favorite custard filling.
Glaze directions:
- Place the butter, milk, corn syrup and vanilla extract in
a saucepan and heat over medium until the butter melts.
- Turn the heat to low, add the chocolate and whisk until
smooth.
- With the pan off the heat, whisk in the powdered sugar
until smooth.
- Set glaze over a bowl of warm water to keep it fluid and
dip doughnuts immediately.
- Allow the glaze to set up for about half hour.