- Top of the morning to ya, everyone, it's Barry here.
Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen.
I hope you are well.
Today we are making some baked cinnamon sugar donuts.
(upbeat cheerful music)
Now I've got to be honest with you.
You've just seen what they look like
and I right now am quite sceptical.
I donut think they're going to be that bad
but I've always liked fried donuts.
But the other other day I was in a kitchen shop,
which I tend to just hover around in,
with my love for gadgets and appliances.
Ah!
And I found this thing.
This is something I've been looking for ages, actually,
it's a silicone donut pan, it was on offer.
It was only like about a pound.
Some of you online saying it looks a bit like tentacles
but with this, it makes baking donuts possible.
So that's what we're going to do,
we're going to make baked donuts.
I hope they're going to taste gorgeous
by the end, we'll find out if that is the case.
Very very simple indeed to make a batch,
that we shove it in there.
Just bake it in about 10 to 12 minutes.
Should be okay.
But just before we get started,
some of you guys have been going, Barry,
what's going on with the vlogs?
I'm just having a little break from 'em at the moment.
They'll be coming back imminently.
Maybe even next week, just a teeny little break, that's all.
'Cause it does take up a lot of my time.
Now before we get started, I know I teased the idea
that I was doing the collaboration with ThreadBanger,
just to let you know that is still happening.
We pushed it back now to probably September,
that I'll be going over there,
but there's also the crazy Russian hacker
who I believe I'll be doing a collaboration with too,
so, that's cool, right?
So, aside from our little silicone tray there
which need a darned good wash...
All right, and 'cause it's silicone,
I probably will not grease it.
If you've got one of the ones that are metal,
you're going to need to lubricate it in some way.
But aside from that, we have some flour,
some butter, baking powder,
salt from a pug, one egg,
vanilla extract, a mix of cinnamon and nutmeg together
because I couldn't really be bothered
to put them into separate pots,
sugar, and in here is some buttermilk.
So remember we used some buttermilk
to make our chicken really tender
when we did the popcorn chicken recently,
the acid in there works away at the chicken.
It's kind of like the same concept with that.
Here, the acids help with the baking,
of keeping the actual final donut a little tender.
It works really well with the baking powder.
So for your basic donut mix,
that is all you're going to need today.
Amazing, but of course you can add
other different toppings on and things like that.
We're going to go for a cinnamon and sugar coating,
so we will need a bit more cinnamon sugar
and some butter to act as a glue,
but you can do icing if you want Homer Simpson style icing?
I think he would really like that.
You could do chocolate,
you could do like maple syrup, anything you want.
The main thing for me is if this works
and it legitimately tastes good,
I'll be experimenting some more.
First thing I'm going to do is actually melt this butter.
It's room temperature anyway, so it's a little bit sort of
saggy (laughing) so I'll just bung it in the microwave
for like 15 seconds. (microwave beeps)
Sham-a-damma-ding-dong.
Since we're like making a cake,
we're going to get all our wet ingredients in first.
Pug watch.
So into that bowl, melted butter.
We crack in an egg, and actually, for a hack,
I was told that if you hit it on a flat surface
rather than the edge of the bowl like here,
it actually works better, so I'm going to give it a go.
(laughing)
No it doesn't!
No it doesn't at all.
That was actually a hack that Mrs. Barry and I
were going to do this Sunday in the hacks video
that we already filmed so look out for that one.
But at least the shell was in big clumps.
I'm going to drop in a teaspoon of vanilla extract,
so if you're making strawberry donuts,
use some strawberry extract.
Want to do lemon poppy seed donuts, do some lemon extract.
In goes the acidic buttermilk.
That is all the wet ingredients,
so we'll just grab ourselves a spatula,
break down the egg yolk, mix it all together.
Oh it smells like an ice cream, I'm loving this.
Now in some recipes it's of course,
do your wet ingredients first, then your dry,
and sometimes you do it in separate bowls.
For me, I've never really bothered with stuff like that.
I just do it in one bowl and try and keep it simple.
So there's the nutmeg and cinnamon,
our baking powder, pug salt, not too much of that,
just a little shake, sugar, and the flour
that I'm not even sifting, all right,
we're just going to work this through.
It's going to thicken up, but it should become
our dough batter, and that will be it.
Oh, look at this.
Loving that, oh yeah.
Don't forget to scrape the bottom with your spatula
just to push any of those powders away and merge it
and mingle it, you don't want any of that to hide in there,
and this, I'm so happy with it.
You could definitely do this with a stand mixer
if you want, but little bit of elbow grease hurts nobody.
Let's pre-heat our oven.
You should probably do that before you start anything,
because this is so quick, it's done already,
and look, that is literally my bowls all stacked up,
that's all the stuff that I need to wash up.
Easy!
Just to give it some stability,
I'm gonna sit it on a baking tray
because they can, you know,
I'd hate to put all the batter in there and go ooh!
I will do that.
So this will do.
I'm going to take my time with this step
whilst my oven preheats.
I'm going to just spoon the mixture in there, all around.
I'm only going to pour in like 2/3 fill it,
to give it a little bit of room to grow.
I'm going to cover a couple like this,
just completely cover that like that,
and there's a couple I'm going to leave with the hole
actually showing so it bakes around it.
But if you don't have a donut pan,
just use like a cupcake tin or something like that.
Just make donut cupcakes.
(oven beeps) My oven's pre-heated.
I'm just giving it a little tap just to settle it.
I'll tidy up around there a little bit,
then we bung 'em in the oven.
All right, in they go and we will see them
in about 10 to 12 minutes.
(laughing)
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You smell that?
We're about two minutes away from their being done.
They're looking good.
They have risen just to the top which is perfect.
I'm loving it.
Right, appliance garage.
We need a wire rack for these to cool down on.
I think every house needs an appliance garage
in their kitchen now.
The donuts are just going to sit on the wire rack to chill
whilst we brush them in a little bit of butter,
and then we roll them in cinnamon sugar.
Ooh.
All right, so I've taken these out of the oven.
They've been out for about three or four minutes now
and it's still, I can hold the silicone but,
it's still warm, which is good for this next step.
For reference, the main one that I coated loads on,
it's kind of just covered it and I can probably
poke the hole out of it if you want,
or it might be kind of quite cool
to hold some filling in there, I don't know.
But they look all good,
and I did put a toothpick in one of them
just to make sure that it's cooked through.
If it's gooey keep it in there a little longer,
but it took me 12 minutes.
(laughing)
Yeah that's the one without the whole.
Like holy wow, that is one with the hole.
Amazing. (laughing)
Last up, all I'm going to do is take some sugar,
a little shimmy of cinnamon on there,
put about half a teaspoon.
Mix it through to make a cinnamon sugar,
little bit of melted butter brushed on to the donuts,
be sure to do both sides and the sides,
and I'll just show you with that first one,
we can stick it into our cinnamon sugar, roll it 'round.
Oh my gosh.
Try and do this with one hand so you keep one clean hand,
but there we go, see that?
Nice coated cinnamon sugar donuts.
So there we go then folks.
I hope you'll agree that these baked donuts look the part,
but let's see what they taste like.
Oh!
That texture is amazing, hmm!
That is good.
Texture's there, the taste is there.
You're not getting that maybe that crispness
of fried food and also you know when you go
to a fair and you smell fried donuts,
that's the only thing I'm not getting,
but they taste phenomenal.
It's not just like a cakey texture,
it's got like a lighter feel to it
and it really really works!
In fact, they're bloomin' stonkin'!
Thanks for watching it!
Don't forget the full recipe is on MyVirginKitchen.com
and I'll see you next time, bye!