Ring Doughnuts!
Easy homemade ring doughnuts, topped with all your favourite things!!
- Prep time
- 3 hr
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 450 g strong white bread flour
- 50 g caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 14 g dried active yeast (**)
- 75 g unsalted butter ((cold))
- 200 ml full-fat milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 medium eggs
- 2 l sunflower oil ((for frying!))
- 400 g icing sugar
- 2-3 tbsp water
- Freeze dried raspberries
- 400 g icing sugar
- 2-3 tbsp water
- 150 + g sprinkles
- 400 g melted chocolate
- Chocolate Curls
Instructions
- 1
Sift the flour into a large bowl, and add the caster sugar, yeast and salt and mix together.
- 2
Rub the butter into the mixture so it resembles bread crumbs.
- 3
Gently heat the milk until warm - but not piping hot. If heating in a pan, you want it to just about start having steam come out of the pan.
- 4
Add the warm milk, vanilla extract, and eggs to the dry ingredients. Mix with a spatula to bring it together.
- 5
Knead the dough together for 7-10 minutes. It will be sticky at first, but it will soon come together. Once kneaded, it will be springy to touch, and not sticky.
- 6
Transfer into a lightly oiled bowl, and cover the top of the bowl with clingfilm. Let it rise for 1-2 hours, or until doubled in size.
- 7
Once the dough has risen, take it out of the bowl, and roll the dough out onto a lightly floured surface until it is 2cm thick.
- 8
Using a 9cm round cutter, cut out some doughnuts. In the middle of each round, use a 4cm cutter and cut out the middle to form a ring.
- 9
Re-roll the dough, and repeat to get all of the doughnuts.
- 10
Add the doughnuts to a lightly floured lined tray, and cover lightly with a lightly oiled piece of clingfilm, and leave to prove again for 1-2 hours, or until doubled in size.
- 11
Pour the oil into a large flat saucepan.
- 12
Heat the oil to 170C - test this with a thermometer.
- 13
Carefully lower the doughnuts into the oil with a slotted spoon, two at a time, and fry for 1-2 minutes each side.
- 14
The doughnuts should turn a nice golden colour. If they are browning very quickly, remove the pan from the heat as it’s too hot.
- 15
Once golden, remove carefully from the oil, and place onto some kitchen towel. Then, leave to cool on a tray whilst you do the rest.
- 16
Freeze dried raspberry:- In a bowl, mix together the icing sugar and water until you have a thick paste. Dunk the doughnuts into the icing and place onto a tray. Sprinkle with freeze dried raspberries. Leave to set.
- 17
Sprinkle doughnuts:- In a bowl, mix together the icing sugar and water until you have a thick paste. Pour the sprinkles into a separate bowl. Dunk the doughnuts into the icing and then dunk straight into the sprinkles. Turn over, and put onto a tray to set.
- 18
Chocolate:- In a bowl, melt the chocolate until smooth, I do this in a microwave. Dunk the doughnuts into the chocolate, and then place onto a tray. Sprinkle with chocolate curls.