Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and this is teeny weeny baking
challenge number five and you asked me to see if I could make miniature donuts
so let's give this a go. To make donuts we need flour ... just tip that into the
bowl ... everything's a little bit more fiddly when it's tiny. Some instant dried
yeast and of course some sugar so that the yeast can work. Then we need to take
the butter and melt that in the microwave. You don't want it hot, you
just want it melted so about ten seconds should do it for this small amount. Add
that in with the dry ingredients and then pour in the milk. If you know how to
make pottery or porcelain let me know in the comments if you can make fine
miniatures ... most of the miniatures I find a really chunky and clunky so I'd love
to talk to you if you actually make your own. Add a couple of drops of vanilla and
two eggs and then you want to mix that all together until you get a dough like
consistency. Clean up your workspace, put everything away and then put some extra
flour on the bench and tip out the dough. Now we need to knead that to develop the
gluten in the dough. Gluten is just the protein in wheat and when you need it
and develop it it makes the dough really stretchy. So see here it just breaks when
I pull on it so we need to knead it some more until it becomes stretchy like this.
That looks good so now you want to put that dough back in the bowl and cover it
with some plastic wrap. Plastic wrap can be fiddly and hard enough to handle it
normal of times but in miniature size it's proving a little difficult ... got it :)
Okay once you've covered that you cover it so that the dough doesn't dry out and
you just want to leave it to rise. Once it's doubled in volume you can remove
the plastic. I'm having trouble with this today and
then just knock it down ... normally you'd punch it with your fists but my fist is
not going to fit into that tiny bowl. Take it out of the bowl and then put it
on the counter and roll it using a rolling pin. Whenever you guys give me a
new teeny-weeny challenge to do there's always some piece of kitchen equipment
that I don't have in mini, so I need to make it before I can start baking. This
time I needed a strainer for when I get the donuts out of the hot oil and I also
didn't have a donut cutter. Donut cutters have an inner circle and an outer circle
so that when you cut with them you end up with that perfect donut shape. I have
a big one of these but I had to make a mini one. Just pull the centre out and
you can re-roll the centres or you can use them to make donut holes if you want
to fry them up like that. Then you want to leave your donuts to rise again. Look
at that one that's risen a bit too much I think. Light your stovetop and put your
pan of oil on top to heat up. Once it is hot, add your donut into the hot oil and
let it bubble and fry until it browns. Look at that ... perfect 💕 Keep frying all of
them until they're all cooked and then turn off your cooktop you don't want to leave
hot oil getting hotter and hotter or it will ignite ... if you watch my normal donut
video you can see that happening in real life 🔥 Once they're cooked it's time to
glaze them and I'll link you to my donut glaze recipes in the
description below. The donut ingredient quantities are there too so that you can
make donuts in real size or mini size depending what you want to do. My
favorite glaze is the chocolate one YUM! Look at that so shiny but my kids like
the pink marshmallow glaze it actually has marshmallows in the glaze recipe so
it tastes really good and then of course you might like some sprinkles just on
top of that. And for those of you with more
traditional tastes let's dip some of them in cinnamon sugar. Teeny-weeny
miniature donuts have been fun let me know what you'd like me to make in my
miniature kitchen next in the comments below. If you see something someone else
has already suggested and you like that idea give it a thumbs up so that we can
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normal sized videos. Make it a great week by loving others and I'll see you on
Friday.