Donuts for the kids - fond.bites recipe

to take from home to amma's
yeast
sprinkles
vanilla extract
weighing machine
whisk
bowl
jelly roll pan
wire rack

to buy
curd
milk
maida
icing sugar
butter
oil

glazed doughnuts and sugar doughnuts

first make the doughnut dough

Dough:

Instant dry yeast - 2½ teaspoons
Milk – 2/3 cups, Luke warm
All-purpose flour - 3½ cups, sifted
Granulated sugar – 1/3 cup
Salt - 2 teaspoons
Curd - 3/4 cup
Unsalted butter – 100 gms, at room temperature

heat milk until lukewarm
add sugar and salt, stir quickly to dissolve
Add yeast and mix well, set aside for 10 minutes

Measure and sift the flour
Add the curd to the yeast mixture and whisk well
Add the sifted flour 1/2 cup at a time and keep mixing well until incorporated
oil a bowl and transfer the dough to oiled bowl and coat on all sides with oil
cover the bowl with damp cloth
Add the butter to the sticky dough, knead well for 10 minutes till the dough becomes smooth
transfer to an oiled bowl and coat on all sides
cover with a damp cloth and set aside to double in size.  may take 30 to 45 minutes in this weather.
punch the air to let it escape, transfer back to counter and knead for one more minute.
Flour the counter and roll the dough out to 1/2 cm thickness
Using 2 appropriately sized round cutters, cut doughnuts out of the rolled dough.
transfer them to the jelly roll pan and cover with the same damp cloth
allow to prove again - for may be 1/2 an hour
Heat the frying pan up with oil
Once heated, pick up donuts gently and drop them in oil
Add as many donuts as your pan can take
Fry for only about 30 seconds on each side until golden brown.
Place them over wire rack to cool.

While the dough is rising, make the glaze,

Vanilla Glaze:

Butter – 1/4 cup
Icing Sugar – 3/4 cup
Pure vanilla extract – 1/2 teaspoon
Hot water – 2 tablespoons or as needed
Sprinkles - different shapes and colours

Add butter in a heavy bottomed sauce pan and heat it up on stove top. Once it has melted completely, add the icing sugar and mix it well. It will seem to solidify in the beginning but the sugar will melt. Now add pure vanilla extract and mix it constantly for 30 seconds to 1 minute on medium low flame and remove from stove. Add the hot water a tablespoon at a time and mix well without any lumps. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

Keep small plates with sprinkles to dip your donuts in once they are glazed

Also keep a small plate with castor sugar for a sugar glazed donut

To glaze: Check your glaze again, if it has hardened up, add another tablespoon of hot water and mix it up again. Now dip one side of the doughnut into the glaze and immediately touch it onto a plate of sprinkles and invert it back on a wire rack or plate to set.

Bring extra donuts to work after keeping few for the kids