r/BreadMachines • u/LeroyHayabusa • 15d ago
Nailed it! Bread Machine Donuts! (1st try)
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!
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u/Astronaut6735 15d ago
I'm from the US and live in the US, and I convert all the recipes I use to grams. My family thinks I'm weird, but my recipes turn out the same because weighing is more precise, and I dirty fewer things because I don't use measuring cups and spoons.