Did you get them? I got them!
Dunkin' Donuts. Alright, so a lot of you have sent us messages saying that you love Dunkin' Donuts,
I'm gonna share this with you, and that we should try the chocolate glaze one and see if we can make
a big and bold version. I want to see what the big fuss was about. Gemma you could totally do these,
yeah? It's nice, I could absolutely re-create these no problem,
saving us a trip to Donut Shop. Let's do it. Then start the car. Saving you a trip.
Yeah. So I'm excited to make some Donuts. I'm gonna start by making my dough on my
stand mixer. So into my bowl, I'm going to add in flour, sugar, salt and some yeast. So just so
you know, I use instant yeast which gets added straight to the flour. If you use active yeast,
you have to activate it in liquid. So I'm just going to give this a little bit of a mix up.
And over here I have some milk and into this I'm going to add in a little bit of butter,
and then all I'm going to do is just take this away, pop it into the microwave and
melt that butter to let the milk get nice and warm. So our butter is melted, into this
I like to add in a little bit of my vanilla extract and this just gives a lovely flavor
to your donuts. OK lovely now we're going to turn on our machine to like a medium speed and
we're going to add our wet into our dry. Just add enough liquid until your dough comes together.
So now I'm gonna let this knead for roughly 6 to 8 minutes. If you want to do this step
by hand and you don't have a stand mixer then you can absolutely do that. You're just going
to need a lot of elbow grease. So these are yeasted donuts and in my opinion, very like
the Dunkin' Donuts. If you're more a fan of the kind of old fashioned donuts, buttermilk donuts,
sour cream donuts, those cakey heavy donuts which are super delicious, I also have a recipe
for that on my website. I've got tons of donut recipes on my website, so check them out. So our
dough is looking good. It's nice and soft. This is a really lovely dough to work with. You'll
see that when you get your hands on it. So now I'm going to take it out and I'm going to pop it into
my bowl, which I oiled with a little bit of like vegetable oil. And then I'm going to cover it with
a shower cap. Now what you want to do now is let it proof at room temperature somewhere kind of
warm and snug for around an hour and a half to two hours. I usually give it a full 2 hours,
then we're going to come back and get them into the fryer. So it's been 2 hours and my
dough looks gorgeous, it's fluffy and puffy and really soft. This is the way I like it. So now
here you can see I've got a floured surface, put a little bit of extra flour on top of your dough.
And then with my rolling pin, I'm going to roll this out kind of thick, maybe half an inch thick
or even a little bit thicker. If you like big donuts, don't go too thin, that's for sure.
That looks around half of an inch thick. OK, so to cut our donuts we are not going to use a donut
cutter cause we don't have one of those, so we're going to use some scone cutters. There's a 3 inch
one and then the smallest one possible. And we're going to use these to cut out or donuts. So cut
out the big circle. All the way around. This recipe will make around 12 to 14 Donuts.
And then with your little baby cutter, go across the holes. Who doesn't love a good
donut hole? For some reason it tastes different than regular donuts. I don't know why. Maybe it's
the shape. So donut dough is forgiving so you can reroll it after you've cut out all your donuts and
get even more donuts. Now I'm going to lay my donuts onto a tray lined with parchment paper.
I'm gonna set my donut holes over to the side 'cause they proved separately because
they proof much faster. So with my big donuts I'm going to cover them up with some clingwrap.
I'm going to put a towel over them and I'm going to let these proof around 20 minutes to half an
hour or so. We want them to get nice and puffy and grow. So I gave my Donuts half an hour and they're
looking perfect. You can tell when they proved correctly, 'cause they're kind of rounded and
softened out. So I'm just going to leave those there. I'm going to keep them covered and over
here I have a heavy bottomed saucepan and I'm going to fill that with a few inches of oil. We
don't have to deep fry them, we're going to shallow fry. You can use vegetable oil,
sunflower oil, canola oil. And then we're going to heat that up until around a medium heat. You
don't want your oil to smoke, but you also don't want it to be too cold otherwise the oil seeps
into the donuts. OK I gave this a little bit of time and the oil looks like it's hot enough,
so I'm going to go and add, maybe just like 4 doughnuts or so to my pot. 4 or 5. And then start
to cook them. So you cook them for roughly around 2:00 to 3:00 minutes on the first side or until
they're lovely and brown. Then you flip them over and then cook them for another 2 minutes or so on
the other side, or until brown again. Fantastic. These are looking gorgeous, so I’m going to take
them out of there and I'm just going to lay them onto my tray lined with some kitchen paper just to
kind of dab up that extra oil. And then lastly, don't forget to do your donut holes. So our
donuts are looking gorgeous, now here's what I like to do. While they're still warm, I have
a bowl here of my chocolate frosting for Donuts, and this is on my website. You can check that out
and I am going to dunk my Donuts while they're still warm, In here one at a time. So dunk it in,
give it a good dunk, twist up any excess drip off and then put it on to your cooling rack. And while
the frosting is still damp, I'm going to sprinkle over my sprinkles. You want to do the sprinkles
after you dip them because your glaze will set. Then just go ahead and do all your donuts.
OK, so are these Donuts better than Dunkin' Donuts? Let Kevin be the judge.
OK Gemma, it was time to make the Donuts.
And you did it. Wow, Gemma. The flavor of the donut combined with that chocolate frosting on
top. That is just awesome. Like I love this. I mean, I can't believe you can make Donuts like
this at home. Yeah in no time at all. They're super delicious. It tastes like a real legit
Dunkin Donut. I think so. Anyway, I’ll let you be the judge of that. Head over to my website. Recipe
is on there. Let us know what you think and we'll see you back here again really soon. Thanks guys.
Good going Gemma, how about Vanilla next time? Yeah Vanilla glazed? Love vanilla glazed.