Glazed Donuts...Live A Little!!

This is my "go to" recipe when Hubby asks for homemade donuts. I stimulate got tried many, many donut recipes over the years together with this is his favorite; it is simple, delicious together with it has never failed me.

 2 envelopes of dry out active yeast (I utilisation ii scant tablespoons)
¼ loving cup warm water
1½ cups warm milk
½ loving cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (room temperature)
1/3 loving cup butter flavored Crisco
5 cups all utilisation flour
Sprinkle the yeast over the warm H2O together with permit it represent five minutes or until foamy. In a stand upward mixer, mix ii cups of the flour, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, shortening, together with yeast mixture until good mixed (takes only a infinitesimal on depression speed).
Beat inwards the residual of the flour, ½ loving cup at a time, until the dough doesn't stick to the sides of the bowl anymore. Once it is at that stage, knead for almost five minutes.
Place the dough inwards a greased (I utilisation cooking spray) bowl, comprehend it amongst plastic roll together with sit down it inwards a really warm role of your kitchen for an hour, or until the dough doubles inwards size.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface together with gently whorl it out to ½" thickness. Cut amongst a floured donut cutter (see banking concern complaint below). Set cutting out donuts on a foursquare of parchment newspaper that you lot lightly sprayed amongst cooking spray. This volition assistance you lot tremendously when it comes fourth dimension to elevator the donuts into the cooking oil.
Spray the tops of the donuts amongst a lilliputian cooking spray together with comprehend loosely amongst plastic roll for a 2nd ascent (takes almost 45 minutes to an hour). Heat vegetable petroleum inwards a deep fryer (see banking concern complaint below) to 350 (I cooked mine at 375) together with gently lower donuts into oil. Fry until they plow dainty together with golden thus flip them.

Drained cooked donuts on a baking rack together with earlier they cool all the means down, dip them inwards a uncomplicated saccharide glaze (or cinnamon sugar).

SIMPLE SUGAR GLAZE
1/3 loving cup melted butter
ii cups powdered sugar
i teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon almond extract
four tablespoons hot water

Mix everything together (starting amongst three tablespoons hot water, thus adding the concluding tablespoon if you lot demand it).

NOTE: My donut cutter is a pocket-sized pineapple tin that I've removed the piece of job yesteryear & bottom from. For the centre hole, I utilisation a pocket-sized circle cookie cutter.

NOTE: I rut my petroleum inwards an electrical frying pan thus I tin regulate the temperature (and it doesn't accept equally much petroleum equally a deep fryer).

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