Donuts are usually coated with glaze. You can sprinkle with a sweet colored sprinkle on top, which is usually used on Easter cakes. The icing for this popular dessert can be prepared with your own hands. It is worth noting that it can also be used to cover another baking - cupcakes, rolls, cakes, rolls. What can be prepared icing for donuts, we will describe below.
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Chocolate icing for donuts
Chocolate icing for donuts is considered the most popular, along with the usual white coating. A simple and easy way to make chocolate icing for donuts in just a few minutes.
- a glass of sugar;
- half a glass of water;
- 60 g of dark chocolate;
- 50 g of butter.
Dissolve sugar in water, putting on medium heat. The grains should completely dissolve. After that, pour the cubes of chocolate into the syrup and help the spoon dissolve into it. Wait for the chocolate mixture to boil. After that you can add oil and melt it. While stirring with a whisk, boil for 10 minutes, so that all the ingredients dissolve until smooth. The icing is ready, it remains to let it cool and apply with a brush to the donuts. The finished mass should be densely draining from a spoon, which means that it can be used.
On a note. You can speed up the cooling of the glaze by placing the container in ice water.
Strawberry Recipe
Soft pink strawberry flavoring complements a dessert like donuts very well. It is recommended to cook fresh berries not grown in the greenhouse during the season - then the taste will be really amazing.
Components for strawberry glaze:
- a glass of sugar;
- 100 g of oil;
- 2 squirrels;
- 1 tsp lemon juice;
- 70 g of strawberries.
Cooking goes like this:
- Beat whites with sugar and lemon juice. Get a fairly dense mass of bright white.
- Melt the butter and pour into the mixture, mix well.
- Grind strawberries with a blender to a homogeneous creamy consistency and add to the icing. Mix well until smooth.
On a note. If after use a little glaze is left, it can be tightly tightened with a film so that it does not weather and freeze, and put in a refrigerator. You can store up to ten days, no longer desirable.
Vanilla
Classical glaze is considered vanilla, snow-white color. It is no less popular than chocolate. It is often used not only to cover donuts, but also other pastries - rolls and Easter cakes.
Fragrant and quick to prepare, the glaze is made from:
- a bag of vanillin;
- 1 cup icing sugar
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 tsp butter;
- 2 tsp high fat milk.
Melt the butter, let cool slightly. Combine all products in one bowl and beat for a long time until a homogeneous, thick consistency. It is better to do this with a submersible mixer - so the mixture whips faster and turns out thicker than when manually mixing with a whisk.
On a note. Vanilla glaze, in the preparation of which instead of milk cream is used at least 33% fat, is thicker. If you like a finer structure, you can pour a little boiled water at the end of the preparation.
Cooking from caramel and salt
Caramel icing for donuts turns out to be very tasty, slightly mirrored, and can be used to cover various pastries - cupcakes, cakes.
Read also:mirror icing for cake
Procedure:
- Soak 5 g of gelatin in water.
- Separately pour 10 g of starch and 30 ml of water. Mix.
- Pour 150 g of sugar and 1-2 tsp of lemon juice into a dry deep frying pan, melt and cook until a caramel brown color.
- We remove from the heat, gradually pour 70 ml of water and 130 ml of fat cream, not forgetting to stir. We put it back on the fire, add a pinch of salt and cook, stirring occasionally.
- Add starch water and gelatin to caramel and mix well. Cooking a few more minutes
- Pass through a sieve and let cool to thirty degrees.
Caramel is a bit viscous in consistency. It is more convenient to apply to desserts with a baking silicone brush. Top can be decorated with chocolate chips or chopped walnuts.
From marmalade
An unusual version of the glaze is marmalade mass. To make it fragrant and with a certain taste, it is recommended to select a product of one type, for example, with apple, pear or cherry base.
To prepare, prepare:
- 200 g plain marmalade;
- 4 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 50 g butter;
- 2 tbsp. l sour cream.
Melt the marmalade, butter and sugar over a small fire, not forgetting to stir occasionally with a silicone spatula. As soon as the mixture begins to boil, take time and boil for a quarter of an hour, stirring. When the mixture begins to thicken, the fire can be turned off. Cool a little and then proceed to cover the baking.
On a note. Small pieces of marmalade that did not have time to dissolve remain in the glaze. They look very beautiful, but they can be removed with a spoon if desired.
Simple icing
Sugar glaze is prepared from a minimum number of components, which makes it especially affordable. Sweet in taste, quick to prepare, it is easy to prepare at home and will be indispensable for lovers of quick and tasty recipes.
Simple sweet icing is made from:
- 3 egg whites
- 2 glasses of sugar (it is recommended to use powder);
- 2 tsp lemon juice.
This option does not require long preparation:
- The three ingredients are thoroughly beaten with a mixer or hand blender.
- After that you can add a drop of food coloring or use it in pure white form.
Lemon juice will give a dazzling whiteness to the cream and give a light citrus flavor. It is applied with a silicone brush to the donuts immediately, freezes very quickly - within a quarter of an hour.
