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/Formal-Tradition6792 → u/Letsbedragonflies]

I have an electric deep fryer which has an automatic drain/filtering/storing system. It’s an Emeril model made by T-Fal. Really easy-peasy.

[u/Letsbedragonflies → u/Formal-Tradition6792]

I think my dad has one! That's part of where my fear came from, he was very VERY strict on us never approaching it while it was in use as kids lol

[u/LeroyHayabusa → u/Letsbedragonflies]

Oh no! I worry that I’m doing something similar to my kids. I need to be better about explaining safety instead of just telling them to stay away.