Hi Bold Bakers!
I love a good donut, but I also love a twist on a traditional recipe.
That’s why recently I’ve been testing recipes for savory donuts.
I know it sounds crazy but they’re absolutely delicious and I finally think I’ve come
up with the perfect mixture of flavor and texture.
So I’m gonna show you how to make a cheddar cheese and jalapeño donut they’re out of
this world.
I also want you to stay tuned until the end of this video because I’ve got loads more
donut recipes to share with you.
So into our jug we’re gonna add in some milk, and a little bit of butter.
So what we have to do here is heat up the milk and melt the butter, I like to do it
in the microwave for around thirty seconds, you can also do it in the microwave.
So there we go, our butter is melted that’s all we want, and for our milk to be lukewarm.
Now into this we’re gonna crack in our egg and whisk this all together.
So these are our wet ingredients, now we’re gonna get going on our dry ingredients.
So this next step I’m gonna do on my mixer, you can actually do this by hand and it’s
really easy.
So into this I’m gonna add in my white flour, sugar, a little bit of salt and yeast.
And now what I’m gonna do is give this a quick mix, just wanna make sure the yeast
and the salt are well combined, and the sugar.
Lovely, so now we’re gonna add in our flavors.
So here we have some cheddar cheese, I love red cheddar cheese for some reason I think
it’s better than yellow cheddar however it doesn’t, it’s just food coloring.
We’re gonna add that in, as you can see I’m using a lot of cheddar.
Next just add in some chopped jalapeños, you can use as many of these as you like I
use roughly around 3 or so, honestly be generous because it does make a difference.
Ok so everything is good to go.
I’m just gonna raise that up, turn on my machine and then I’m gonna add in my wet
ingredients.
No you know I always say lay back on the wet ingredients we might not need them all.
So this is a softer dough you might notice it doesn’t clean the bowl as much and that’s
totally fine.
If you want to hold back a little bit of the liquid you can.
Now all we want to do is just let this knead away for 3-4 minutes or so on low speed and
let the yeast activate and the machine do it’s job.
Ok this is looking perfect, it looks a lot wetter than it actually is it’s not a wet
dough.
And I’m just gonna turn this out onto my floured surface.
So when yo make this dough you’ll feel that it’s a really nice dough to work with, it’s
really soft.
What I like to do is give it a quick knead on the countertop, just to get it nice and
smooth.
Just for like a minute or 2.
And it just helps to tighten that dough a little bit and form that ball.
Lovely, and then what I’m gonna do is pop it into a bowl that’s been rubbed with a
little bit of oil.
So now I’m just gonna lay over a bit of cling wrap and a tea towel, make sure no air
gets at our dough, and what I want to do is set it aside to proof for roughly an hour
to an hour and a half, we want it to get nice and big.
So I gave my dough the full hour and a half to proof and it’s looking great.
As you can see it’s doubled in size.
It is a little bit of a heavier dough so it’ll take a little more time to proof.
And also it’s not wet it’s a really nice texture.
So what I’m gonna do is flour my surface a bit then turn out my dough.
Now you can pat it or you can roll it, we want it around 1/2” thick we want nice thick
donuts.
So here I have my cutters, a three inch cutter and a 1 1/2” cutter, this is gonna be our
donut cutter.
And now what we do is cut your donuts, and make sure you save the donut holes so we can
cook them because they’re delicious.
So this dough will make around 8 donuts, and then of course you get all the donut holes.
And don’t be afraid to fold over your dough again to make new donuts that’s totally
fine just keep going until you use all your dough.
And if you have any leftover that’s fine just make donut holes.
Ok perfect, now these little guys need to proof so I’m going to lay over some cling
wrap.
And then our tea towel.
And I’m just gonna set these to the side for roughly 25-30 minutes or so, let them
puff up and get rounded on the edges, then we’re ready to cook them off.
So I gave my donuts a full half hour, and I can tell when they’re done when the edges
have kind of softened and they’re nice and round.
They don’t have that fresh cut look that they had half an hour ago.
They’re nice and fluffy, they’ve risen, so they’re good to go, these are fantastic.
So let your oil heat up before you add anything in there, I have mine on a medium, medium-low
heat.
You want to make sure it’s not too hot because your donuts will cook on the outside and be
raw in the middle.
So you want to get a good steady heat going.
So what I do to test it is I take one little donut hole and I cook one little guy off first,
and it’s just a good indication if it’s too hot or too cold.
It’s gonna take roughly, for the donut hole, around a minute and a half on each side.
You just don’t want it to go brown on the outside really fast that means your oil is
too hot.
But this is looking good, so I’m gonna take out my donut hole and carefully place in my
donuts.
I’m just gonna do 4 at a time.
So what you want to do is cook your donuts around 2 minutes on each side.
And let them slowly simmer away in the oil and let them get nice and brown.
So when frying with oil I definitely recommend asking for help if you need it, because it
gets very hot and it can kind of spit.
So these are lovely golden brown on each side, and I’m just gonna lay them down on my cooling
rack and just let any excess oil drip off them.
These are looking awesome, they’re lovely golden brown in color and they’re not too
dark.
And I know that they’re lovely and fluffy on the inside.
So just do your donuts in 2 batches, just to not overcrowd the pan.
Last but not least cook off your donut holes, these will take a little bit less time than
the donuts.
So there’s not many things better than a freshly cooked, homemade donut.
And I’m gonna try this one right here, oh my gosh look at that, come in here I want
you to see this, do you see that.
See all the cheese and jalapeños and how bubbly it is?
Absolutely gorgeous.
And it’s perfectly cooked, like I said don’t get your oil too hot and you’ll get a nice
golden outside and a nice soft fluffy inside.
Oh my gosh, you can hear how crispy they are.
I did wonder what they were gonna turn out like, but it’s fried dough loaded with cheese
and jalapeños, homemade, absolutely divine.
I hope you enjoyed this video but I don’t want you to go anywhere because I have a lot
more donut videos for you to watch.