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Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking Homemade Donuts
Hi Bold Bakers! This week's recipe has been the most requested on Bigger Bolder Baking.
What is it? Donuts! More specifically, baked donuts. My donuts look and taste just like
fried but without all the extra fat. So it's a win-win! So let's get baking.
So I know what you're thinking, if these are baked donuts then they're probably those cakey
donuts that you pipe into a mold. No, they're not. This is a really great yeast dough and
I'm going to keep a big secret about it until the very end so see if you can figure out what it is.
In stand mixer, we're going to add our flour, sugar,
salt, and yeast.
A little tip when adding in yeast. Don't let it come
in direct contact with the salt or it will actually deactivate the yeast.
Now mix your ingredients together separately so everything is well combined.
In a separate jug, we're going to measure out our milk,
our water, and butter.
We're going to heat this mix in the microwave until the butter melts and it's blood temperature.
If you can't feel the liquid around your finger, it means it's the same temperature as your
blood which means it's blood temperature.
Lastly, add your vanilla extract into your liquid.
Turn your machine on and add in your liquid.
We're going to mix it on low for two minutes to actually wake up the yeast and get it activated.
The recipe for this dough can be found below the video in the description box.
After your two minutes on low, turn the machine on to medium speed and we're
going to knead for around 6-8 minutes until it starts to clean the bottom of the bowl.
Our dough is done, it's been on for 8 minutes and it's good to go.
So we're going to turn it out on a floured surface.
It's kind of a sticky dough so make sure you have flour around.
And we're going to scrape the bowl clean and we're going to pour a little bit of flavorless
oil into the bowl
so it helps the dough to rise and then pop it back in.
You see when you push on the dough and it bounces back at you.
That is exactly what you want. It means that your dough is alive.
Now cover your dough tightly with cling film so no air gets in
and I like to lay a tea towel over the top to keep it warm.
And just so you know, you can make this dough the day before and then bake it the next day.
Now we're one step closer to making our homemade donuts.
It's been two hours, our dough is looking fantastic so we're going to turn it out onto
a floured surface.
Roll your dough out to around 1/2 an inch thick. We want our donuts to be nice and big.
This is Bigger Bolder Baking after all.
To cut your doughnuts, you do not need a special donut cutter. I just use a regular cutter
and to cut out the donut hole I just use the bottom of a piping tip.
Then just tap out your donut hole.
And then straight onto a baking tray and give them a little bit of space so they can
rise and grow.
My first job in the United States was actually as a bread baker. And I used to have to get
up and go to work at 3am in the freezing cold and snow.
But I loved it.
So because this is Bigger Bolder Baking, we're going to make a few different varieties of
homemade donuts.
If you want to make stuffed donuts, just cut another round and don't cut out a donut hole
With the leftover dough gently rework it and cut out more donuts.
Once you've cut out your donuts, we need to proof them again
a little bit longer for around another 30 minutes
and then they're ready for the oven.
Our donuts are proofed and they actually only took only 20 minutes
You can tell when they're done when they're nice and rounded out.
You see how you can't see the lines of the cutter anymore.
Before they go in the oven, we're just going to brush the tops with melted butter and this
gives them a really nice color.
Now one thing I Iike to do when working with yeast dough is to sprinkle the tray with water
so then when the water evaporates it creates steam and it
helps all of the yeast to rise and also I think it gives your donuts a nice soft top.
Our donuts are ready for the oven. I can't wait for them to be baked.
While our donuts are in the oven, we're going to get cracking on the glaze because we want
to dip them straight away when they come out of the oven.
In a large bowl, add in your icing sugar,
Vanilla extract, and a little bit of water.
And then just whisk together. Add enough water to get a thin icing.
This glaze is really easy and it's very reminiscent of a Krispy Kreme flavor if you know what I mean.
Our donuts are finished baking. You would not believe what my kitchen smells like right now.
Look at these beautiful donuts!
Why would you eat fried if you could just bake them off and they're going to be just
as good. Oh man, they smell so good. Ok, I have to stop touching them. We're going to
glaze them and we're going to get eatin'.
Once your donuts come out of the oven, the best thing to do is glaze them straight away
because all that warm dough kind of soaks up the glaze and that's exactly what you want.
Can you believe these are baked donuts?
What I like to do with these donuts is to actually double dip them in the glaze.
So I do one layer, let it set then I put them back in again for another layer.
It makes them really good and keeps them nice and soft.
If you needed any convincing that these are donuts
then just look at this!
So now it's time to get really BIG & BOLD.
Dip your donut holes in butter while they're still warm
and then toss them in sugar and pumpkin pie spice.
I love the sweet and salty flavors together.
I like to serve these donut holes around the holidays for easy entertaining with chocolate sauce.
Oh, these are so good. Check these out. By tasting this you'd never know it was a baked donut.
So do you remember these donuts that we made for stuffing? We are going to fill them with Nutella.
Just make an incision in the bottom, fill your piping bag with Nutella,
and then squeeze. You will actually see it getting bigger.
And then add a swirl to the top.
Now you have a BIG & BOLD box of homemade donuts.
Remember that secret I mentioned earlier, well my donut dough is also my Monkey Bread
dough. It works really well for both.
I really hope you guys try out my homemade baked donuts. You will not be disappointed.
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for more Bigger Bolder Baking.