Light Every 2D Air Donut Holes For This Weekend

This recipe comes from the Apr edition of Cooking Light...go figure. Why a fried donut recipe is inwards a periodical called Cooking Light, I'm non sure, but it is...I tried it, as well as they were delicious...light equally air.
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6 tablespoons warm H2O (see note)
¼ loving cup granulated sugar
1+ 1/8 teaspoons dry out active yeast (I used 1¼)
6.75 ounces flour (about 1½ cups) divided (see note)
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sour cream
1 large egg, lightly beaten
6 cups peanut crude (I used vegetable oil)
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Combine start three ingredients inwards a large bowl, permit represent five minutes or until bubbly. Weigh, or lightly spoon 5.63 ounces (about 1¼ cups) flour into dry out touchstone cups as well as storey amongst a knife, add together salt.
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Add sour cream as well as lightly beaten egg to yeast mixture as well as mix until smooth. Add the flour mixture as well as mix until a moist dough forms. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until shine as well as elastic (about three minutes); add together plenty of the remaining flour (1 tablespoon at a time) to forbid dough from sticking to your hands. (dough volition experience slightly sticky). See note.
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Place dough inwards a bowl coated amongst cooking spray. Cover amongst plastic wind as well as permit it rising inwards a warm house (85 degrees) for 1 hr or until almost double inwards size. (see note)
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Punch downwards dough. Divide into 36 equal portions; ringlet each component subdivision into a ball. Cover dough amongst plastic wind coated amongst cooking spray; permit sit down thirty minutes.
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Fry inwards 375F oil, for 2 minutes or until golden as well as done. Drain donuts on newspaper towels. Glaze or ringlet inwards sugar.
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OK, directly that was their instructions...here's mine: I ended upwards using 2 cups of flour because their recommendation was only non enough. I shaped the donut holes as well as placed them on a foursquare of parchment newspaper that I had sprayed amongst cooking spray as well as thus wiped off amongst a newspaper towel. This allows you lot to alternative upwards each donut hole without deflating it.
Yeast dough's alone cooperate amongst you lot if they are kept warm, so, either convey the egg as well as sour cream to room temperature earlier you lot purpose them, or sit down your bowl of dough (and afterward your pan of shaped donut holes) over a large bowl of really warm H2O (the hottest H2O coming from your kitchen sink).

This dough was supposed to receive got alone an hr to enhance the start time. However, I didn't purpose room temperature ingredients, thus it took almost 2 hours. Once I sat it over the bowl of warm water, the dough became beautifully calorie-free as well as fluffy.

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I discovery that an electrical skillet plant good for frying donuts because you lot tin give the axe gear upwards the temperature as well as it doesn't receive got all that much oil. Just brand certain you lot flip them over every thirty seconds for a amount child fourth dimension of 2 minutes.

Drain them, initially, on several layers of newspaper towels. Once drained, dip the hot donuts inwards a glaze or ringlet them inwards sugar.
Glaze

1½ cups powdered sugar

2 tablespoons maple syrup

2 tablespoons warm water

(I added a one-half teaspoon vanilla)
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NOTE: Recipe starts amongst vi tablespoons warm water. You tin give the axe genuinely purpose fairly hot H2O inwards this stride because the granulated carbohydrate volition cool downwards the H2O earlier you lot mix inwards the yeast.
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NOTE: This recipe needs a lot to a greater extent than flour than is called for. I used 2 cups of flour (lightly spooned into a touchstone loving cup as well as leveled off amongst a knife), as well as I didn't pose it inwards 1 tablespoon at a time, similar directions suggest, I precisely dumped it in.