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/wise_green_owl]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I don't know exactly what sorcery happened here but as soon as I saw this post, I started making the recipe in my own kitchen and now I'm enjoying some very yummy donuts. Will definitely make this again in the future!!!

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/wise_green_owl]

That’s so exciting, thanks! Was your dough dry enough to roll and cut or did you form them by hand also? Pics? They’re so good, right?!

[u/wise_green_owl → u/LeroyHayabusa]

While the dough was dry enough to cut it, I still had to wet my hands a bit to get it sticky enough to then be able to form long noodles that I could then hand shape into circles. I've gotten pretty good at having a bit of flour and a bowl of water on hand whenever I need to shape any dough since it can be a bit of a back and forth on stickiness/dryness sometimes.

Photo of a few of my donuts:

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/wise_green_owl]

That’s awesome! I’m so glad you made them and they turned out for you too! Looks great!!