How to Make Homemade Doughnuts

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If delicious rings of dough dance in your head more often than sugar plums, this guide will have you serving up glazy goodness without leaving your kitchen.

To complete this How-To you will need:

2 tbsp. dry yeast
1 c. all-purpose flour
1¼ c. butter
2/3 c. sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. salt
3½ c. bread flour
Frying oil
A doughnut cutter
A deep fryer or a cast iron skillet
A food thermometer
A cooling rack
Cookie cutters (optional)
Wood skewers (optional)

Step 1: Proof the yeast

Proof the yeast by soaking it in 1 cup warm water for 10 minutes. Then add 1 cup all-purpose flour and set aside.

Step 2: Combine butter and sugar

Combine the butter and sugar in the mixing bowl and cream them together. Slowly add the eggs, one at a time.

Step 3: Combine vanilla, salt, bread flour

Combine the vanilla, salt, and bread flour and add it to the butter, sugar, and egg mixture a little at a time until they're fully incorporated.

Step 4: Add the yeast mixture

Stir in the yeast mixture and let everything sit for 1 to 2 hours.

Step 5: Roll out the dough

Roll out the dough to a thickness of ½-inch on a floured surface to prevent sticking. Cut out doughnuts using a doughnut cutter.

Tip: Use holiday cookie cutters to create fun-shaped doughnuts for any occasion.

Step 6: Fry the doughnuts

Fry the doughnuts in a deep fryer or cast iron skillet filled with oil heated to 370 degrees Fahrenheit. Fry in small batches, until they're golden brown on both sides.

Tip: Use wood skewers to gently flip doughnuts after 3 to 4 minutes per side.

Step 7: Cool and decorate

Cool the doughnuts on a cooling rack and then decorate them or chow them plain.

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[immabaybee]

Screw this. Im going to Dunkin' Donut's.

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[andrewsena2012]

you would have to leave your kitchen an get this crap oh did you know yall can get a life

[buzzkillerZ0z]

2 words.... Food porn.......

[Pivotrulez54]

How to Make Homemade Doughnuts

step 1: command ur mom to go to dunkin' donuts

step 2: open the box of doughnuts

step 3: place doughnut in microwave on 10 sec.

step 4: enjoy ur doughnut

Did u know bread is wheat????

[66LoveDove]

I tried this. I got sprinkly chocolate with a fucking shitty loose ass dough.. it was fucking gross

[n8wolin]

this makes me miss when every fucking krispy kreme in the fucking country wasn't closed

[RRaquello]

1500 calorie hamburger with glazed donuts instead of a hamburger bun invented in Georgia. No wonder the fattest people in the world are those who live in the southern states of the US.

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the narrator's voice is so sexy..

[TerryT05]

@MrJammydification u bet :)