Delicious and Soft Glazed Doughnuts
Ingredients
Doughnut Recipe
- 2 Eggs large
- 2 Yeast Packets I use Fleischmann’s Active Dry Yeast, 0.75 Oz.
- 1/4 cup Warm water must be 105°-115° F to activate yeast
- 1 1/2 cup Warm Milk lukewarm and then cooled
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Shortening
- 5 cup All purpose flour
- 3 – 4 cup frying oil shortening or vegetable oil
Glaze Recipe
- 1/4 cup Milk whole milk
- 1/4 cup Corn syrup
- 2 1/2 cup confectioners sugar powdered sugar
Instructions
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Add water and yeast together in a your stand mixer and set aside for 10 minutes.
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Add in the milk, sugar, salt, eggs, shortening and 2 cups of the flour.
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Turn the stand mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes, then add in the rest of the flour and mix until just combined.
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Take the bowl out of the stand mixer and cover with a clean towel to let it rise for 1 hour.
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When you can push down on the dough and your fingerprint stays you’re ready to move on to the next step.
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Working with half the dough at a time, roll it to ½ inch thick on a floured surface.
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Dip your doughnut cutter in flour and cut out a dozen doughnuts with each half of the dough and out onto wax paper.
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Let rise, covered, in a warm spot for 30-45 mins
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In a cast iron pan or other deep saucepan, heat the vegetable shortening to 375 degrees.
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Please use a thermometer to measure the temperature as this is a critical step.
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Fry the doughnuts on each side for 90 seconds.
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Drain on a cooling rack until you finish cooking them all then dip into the glaze.
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To make the glaze, add the powdered sugar, milk and corn syrup to a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds.
- Enjoy!
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