There’s nothing better than the smell of fresh cinnamon doughnuts, and there’s nothing better than making them at home with the kids to keep them quiet over the school holidays or weekends.
They also travel pretty well in the lunch box on the boat while chasing your favourite catch too! To make them isn’t all that difficult, just a little proving time, a set of cookie cutters and a rolling pin and you’re set.
Give them a go, you’ll never buy them again, trust me!
Facts
Ingredients
10g dried yeast
50g caster sugar
150ml lukewarm milk
300g plain flour (plus a little extra for dusting)
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
50g melted butter melted and cooled
2 large free-range egg yolks
Vegetable oil for frying
Cinnamon sugar for coating doughnuts (½ cup caster sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon combined)
Place the yeast, sugar and 50ml of milk into a mixing bowl and allow it to become frothy. This usually takes about 10 minutes.
Add the remaining ingredients apart from the remaining milk and knead into smooth dough adding remaining milk as you go, if the dough is a little wet just add some more flour to get it to the right consistency.
Allow dough to prove for about 90 minutes.
Knock back dough, then roll out on floured surface to about 1.5cm thick.
Cut out doughnuts with a 12cm cookie cutter then cut out the centre of the dough with a 4cm cookie cutter, repeat this process until all the dough has been used, now heat vegetable oil to about 160°.
Fry 3-4 doughnuts at a time for about 90 seconds or until golden and firm, drain on paper towel, then coat generously with cinnamon sugar.
Serve warm straight away or sneak a few on the boat for later.
Once the dough has been mixed and proved, use a 12cm cookie cutter followed by a 4cm cutter for the hole.
This is a great job for little hands.
All cut out and ready for the hot oil.
Pop them 3-4 at a time into 160C vegetable oil.
Give them a great sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and get into them. Don’t Forget to keep a few for the next trip in the boat.
