Warm from deep fat cakes with caramel crispy crust and tender middle, covered with sweet glossy icing or simply powdered with powdered sugar, with or without filling - these are donuts in all their variety. This sweet pastry has been loved by many since childhood, it is not difficult to cook and fast enough, therefore, having chosen a favorite donut recipe at home, you can prepare a delicious breakfast surprise for your beloved sweet tooth.

How to make classic donuts?

Not even all experienced housewives know that there are several ways to heat-treat the dough when baking donuts that many people love, so you should dwell on each of the possible options.

In the pan

In this way, but not in a pan, but in a cauldron with boiling fat, previously close relatives of this baking - Baursaki, were prepared. And now most housewives prefer to bake donuts in a pan. To do this, they will need a frying pan with a thick bottom and high sides, fat for frying.

You can use odorless vegetable oil, high-quality ghee, lard or goose fat as a deep fat for donuts. In the last two options, 20-30 ml of vodka should be added to the deep fat so that the baking does not absorb the animal odor.

The thick bottom of the pan will ensure uniform heating of the oil and baking the dough. There should be enough fat for frying in the container so that the finished product is completely covered with a golden crust on all sides. It is usually sufficient to pour a 1-1.5 cm layer.

In a slow cooker

Uniform heating of the oil is able to provide not only a cast-iron frying pan inherited from the grandmother, but also a modern kitchen assistant - a multicooker.Thus, this gadget becomes suitable for baking donuts.

Oil is poured into a multicooker, following the same rules as when frying in a pan. The option that suits this baking is Frying. It is important to ensure that before laying the first portion, the oil has enough time to warm up.

In the oven

Although the donuts of their oven are not so high-calorie, but most housewives prefer the first two methods of baking, not knowing that in the oven you can cook these delicious rings. For this, the formed products are sent to be baked at 180-200 degrees. Baking does not last long, 7-10 minutes, so as not to dry the donuts.

To give an authentic look, hot donuts are dipped in melted butter and roll in icing sugar. In the oven, you can cook donuts from any dough, but yeast cakes are the most delicious.

Kefir recipe

Since the kefir donut dough is prepared very quickly, it is feasible to eat the first portion of hot air rings in icing sugar in 15-20 minutes.

Products to be needed:

  • 250 ml of kefir of any fat content;
  • 1 selected chicken egg;
  • 100 g of sugar (or to taste);
  • 5 g of soda;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 45 ml of non-aromatic oil;
  • 400-450 g premium flour.

Phasing of frying donuts:

  1. The components of the dough are combined in three stages and each of them requires thorough mixing of the mixture. First, salt, sugar are put in a deep bowl (or pan), the egg is driven in and the kefir is poured.
  2. When the mass becomes homogeneous, it is the turn of soda and vegetable oil. At the end, flour is sent. After kneading it will turn out a smooth, soft bun, sticking from the hands.
  3. Divide the dough into pieces, from each roll a cake one centimeter thick. Cut donut blank rings. This can be done, both with special cuttings and improvised tools, for example, a glass or a glass of a suitable size.
  4. Pour oil into a pan with a thick bottom so that its level is about 1 cm and put on fire. When the oil is hot enough to fry the donuts in it on both sides. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

On condensed milk

Delicious lush donuts are prepared from a minimum of ingredients in condensed milk, taking:

  • 400 g of condensed milk;
  • 4 chicken eggs;
  • 5 g of soda;
  • 400 g of flour.

Cooking method:

  1. Mix the eggs with condensed milk, sift the flour with soda. Then combine the dry and liquid components. It should be a viscous mass, like thick sour cream.
  2. With two teaspoons soaked in vegetable oil, collect the dough, as for dumplings, and spread in boiling vegetable oil. After roasting, sprinkle the finished donuts on top with icing sugar.

Curd donuts

For donuts on a test of cottage cheese, you need to prepare:

  • 250 g of cottage cheese;
  • 3 table eggs;
  • 100 g of granulated sugar;
  • 250 g premium flour;
  • 4 g of salt;
  • 5 g of soda.

Working process:

  1. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with the rest of the ingredients until a homogeneous consistency.
  2. Powder hands with flour from the resulting dough to form balls. Their diameter should be equal to a walnut.
  3. Fry the curd donut balls in boiling vegetable oil. Garnish pastries with powdered sugar made from a mixture of vanilla and regular sugar.

Chocolate treat

Chocolate lovers will love the donuts for the following recipe:

  • 300 ml of natural yogurt without fillers;
  • 60 g butter;
  • 2 eggs and 1 yolk;
  • 180 g of granulated sugar;
  • 50 g of cocoa powder;
  • 4 g of cinnamon;
  • 7 g of baking powder;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 560 g of wheat flour.

Sequencing:

  1. Mix all dry ingredients except sugar in a separate bowl. Beat eggs and yolk in a lush mass with sugar. Add yogurt and melted butter to the resulting nogogol-mogul.
  2. Then pour the mixture of dry ingredients. Wrap well-kneaded dough with foil and send for one to two hours in the refrigerator.
  3. Cut small pieces from chilled dough. Each roll up to one centimeter in thickness and cut donut rings.Fry them in hot vegetable oil on both sides.
  4. Put the finished products on parchment or paper towel, and after 1-2 minutes they can be dipped in icing from powdered sugar and water (milk or lemon juice) in a ratio of 8: 1.

American style

Donuts can have a different shape (ball or flat cake), but American donuts are always made with a hole in the middle. The famous hole in 1847 was cut out by a lid of pepper by the sailor Hanson Gregory, so that the dough could be baked well in the center.

For soft and long stale donuts you will need:

  • 250 ml of milk;
  • 30 g of pressed yeast;
  • 60 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of salt;
  • 2 yolks;
  • 40 g butter;
  • 10 g vanilla sugar;
  • 500 g of flour.

How to make donuts in American style:

  1. Cooking dough, but in a slightly unusual way. It is necessary to combine immediately milk, sugar, salt, yolks, yeast and half the prescription amount of flour. Keep this mixture covered with a damp towel warm until it doubles in volume.
  2. After that, crush the mass, pour melted butter into it, add vanilla sugar and the remaining flour. Knead well and again allow to approach twice.
  3. Form donuts from ripened dough by cutting circles 1-1.5 cm thick with a hole in the center. Allow 15-20 minutes to warm. And then everything is as usual - frying in vegetable oil.

Yeast donuts

No matter how many different recipes for dough for donuts (on condensed milk, cottage cheese, kefir, etc.), yeast baking will remain the most popular and favorite.

For which you will need:

  • 500 ml of milk;
  • 100 ml of drinking water;
  • 11 g of dry yeast;
  • 50 g of sugar;
  • 125 g butter;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 5 g of salt;
  • 800 g of wheat flour.

Baking Algorithm:

  1. In one bowl, mix water and milk. Heat the mixture a little and dissolve sugar and yeast in it. Leave on for 15-20 minutes so that the yeast comes to life and starts working.
  2. After yeast activation, introduce all other components into the dough and knead the soft dough, which should be left to warm for 1-2 hours to ripen.
  3. From the suitable dough, form circles 1 cm thick, cover them with a cotton towel and leave for proofing for 40 minutes.
  4. Then fry the donuts in a boiling vegetable oil. Ready-made donuts can be filled with a confectionery syringe with condensed milk, thick jam or cream.

The easiest and fastest recipe

Even when the guests are on the doorstep, and in the refrigerator is not crowded, in this case, you can very quickly prepare delicious donuts.

For them you need to take:

  • 2 eggs;
  • 60 ml of sour cream;
  • 60 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of slaked soda;
  • flour.

Cooking:

  1. Mix all the ingredients, and then add the flour in an amount that is sufficient to bring the dough to the consistency of thick homemade sour cream.
  2. Scoop the dough with a tablespoon, spread it in boiling deep fat. Fry, stirring for even gilding. The result is a perfectly round donut.

From milk dough

Those who have failed to make friends with yeast dough can make delicious donuts from a quick milk test.

The proportions of the ingredients will be as follows:

  • 150 ml of milk;
  • 150 g of sugar;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 30 g of butter or vegetable oil;
  • 15 g baking powder for dough;
  • 5 g of cinnamon optional;
  • 500 g of flour.

Stages of baking:

  1. Put all ingredients, except flour and baking powder, in a bowl to knead the dough and mix, actively working with a whisk or turning on the mixer for a couple of minutes.
  2. After that, introduce the two remaining products and knead a little sticky dough. Form donuts from it (rings with holes or just circles) and deep-fry.

Options for fillings and icing for donuts

Although this baking is good in itself, but the additional decor makes it not only more beautiful, but also tastier, many times more attractive in the eyes of sweet tooth.

The easiest serving option is to sprinkle the still hot products with powdered sugar. Why hot? So the powder will melt a little and it will be better to stick. To add flavor, you can mix the powder with vanilla or cinnamon, to whom and what you like best.

Donuts in the form of round balls or magnificent circles can be filled with various fillings, turning them into Berliners (donuts with filling). As the filling, you can use ready-made products: chocolate-nut paste, boiled or regular condensed milk, all kinds of jams or marmalades. And you can prepare the filling yourself, using your favorite recipe for custard, lemon Kurd, curd or other cream.

The finished products are filled with a confectionery syringe, or by making an incision from the side and filling the hole with a spoon filling.

Donut glaze is perhaps the most popular decoration that turns pastries into a real festive dish. There are two popular ways to cook it.

In the first case, powdered sugar is simply mixed with liquid. It can be ordinary drinking water, lemon milk or other juice. So, taking beet or cherry juice, you can cook a beautiful pink glaze. To get a shiny and glossy finish, donuts should be covered hot.

For the second method, chocolate is used. It must be melted and diluted to the desired consistency with cream, milk or sour cream. Depending on which chocolate is part of the glaze (black, milk or white), a different color coating can be obtained.

Glazed donuts can be additionally decorated with multi-colored pastry topping, sesame seeds or coconut.

Donuts are baked goods that need to be eaten fresh, because over time it loses its taste. Keep them no more than a few days.

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