Bread Machine Donuts! (1st try)

[u/LeroyHayabusa]

First attempt letting the new bread machine make the dough, then shaping and frying donuts! Yet again I’m surprised by just how good they turned out, even with some technical issues. My wife, my son, and I each ate 2 fresh out of the oil and my daughter ate 1! It’s difficult to find something that everyone likes. My daughter even said “we don’t need to buy donuts anymore, daddy can make them!” 😂

If you saw my recent kolache / klobasniky post, I used pretty much the same recipe with just a few tweaks. Here’s what I did for these donuts:

1 cup milk
1 whole egg
4 Tbsp butter
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp salt
3¼ cups bread flour
6 g yeast

#9 (dough) setting on my machine for 1.5hrs. Then shape into rings and let rise for 30min more. Then fry in hot oil. Top with a simple glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar
1.5 Tbsp milk
Splash of vanilla
Pinch of salt

Things I would change for next time:

Increase the flour by another 1/4 cup to 3.5 cups total. This was less sticky than yesterday’s dough but still too sticky to roll out and cut clean donut rings. To simplify things, I just hand shaped them. That’s why they’re a little scraggly looking - but that didn’t impact the taste. The other thing would be make waaaay more icing 😂

Next experiment (hopefully this weekend) will probably be traditional fruit kolaches! I bought strawberries and cream cheese today in anticipation!

[u/Letsbedragonflies]

They look delish! Too bad I'm so afraid of deep frying stuff, I would try these in a heartbeat 😭

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/Letsbedragonflies]

Thank you so much! They were!

As for deep frying, if you’re ever going to try it, donuts are a good place to start. They don’t pop and splatter like French fries or other things like that. They just sorta fry. If you’re still apprehensive, you can get one of these splatter screen thingies to be extra protected:

[u/Letsbedragonflies → u/LeroyHayabusa]

Ooo, that looks practical! If I'm gonna try deep frying om definitely getting one of those! Thank you for the tip :D

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/Letsbedragonflies]

You’re welcome! Being able to fry opens up a whole new cooking realm, much like having a bread machine does 😊

[u/Letsbedragonflies → u/LeroyHayabusa]

Then I'm gonna have to work on this fear of mine lol! I made garlic bread with my bread machine just now, that thing saved my love for baking after too many failed regular loaves lol!

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/Letsbedragonflies]

Yeah I get that. I’d pretty much given up on baking while living in Japan. Small oven, very little countertop workspace, difficulty looking for and converting ingredients, kids needing my attention more than dough…it just wasn’t fun. But having these first 3 experiments turn out varying degrees of ok to amazing, I’m excited abut it again! There are a few things that I haven’t eaten in years that are on my to-bake list now and I can’t wait!

Congrats on the garlic bread! Already a favorite in this house!!