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I love donuts, like seriously love them!! When I was little, my mother would make us easy cheater donuts by opening a pack of tube biscuits and frying them in oil. We would dip them in powdered sugar and just savor the sweet treat. I used to do that same thing for my kiddos when they were little, until I began to learn how good scratch made baking was!
I now make my guilty pleasure treat with my home-milled hard red wheat. These coffee time donuts are light and delicious. Quick and easy to whip up. The challenge is to keep the oil a consistent temperature to not burn your glorious donuts 🙂
What I used:
You may want to invest in a good candy thermometer to keep an eye on that oil temp. I also love my cookie cutter set that lets me cut donuts in whatever size I want, with or without the middle holes.
Coffee Time Donuts
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 cup fresh milled hard red wheat can use soft or hard white as well
- 2-1/2 cups AP flour, divided I used '00' flour to balance the hard red
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 package active dry yeast or 2-1/4 teaspoon bulk yeast
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 large egg
Glazing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 1-2 Tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a saucepan, heat the milk and shortening till milk is warm (apx 100°). Shortening does not need to melt and probably won't be fully melted.
- In a bowl combine 1 cup hard red wheat flour, sugar, salt, nutmeg, and dry yeast. Whisk together.
- Allow milk mixture to cool to 110° and then pour into bowl with the dry ingredients. Mix well, scraping the bottom of the bowl, until smooth.
- Slowly add the rest of the flour while mixing (*see note on home-milled flour). You'll remove the paddle and use the dough hook to knead this dough to a smooth, but not stiff, dough ball. You do not want this dough to be stiff or dried out with too much flour.
- Cover and let rise 1 hour till doubled.
- Punch dough down and roll out on floured surface to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut donuts into preferred shape using biscuit cutters, donut cutter, floured glass, or whatever you want.
- Cover again and let rise to double their size (apx 30-45m)
- While donuts rise, in a microwave safe bowl, melt the butter and add in the powdered sugar, whisk together, mix will be thick. Add the vanilla extract and just 1 Tbsp of milk. Whisk well so no lumps exist and glaze is smooth. If it's still too thick, add the second tablespoon of milk.
- Heat 2 inches of oil in a sturdy pan to 375° for about 2 minutes on each side. Place on cooling rack over paper towels or inside baking sheet to drain away excess oil. While donuts are still warm, dip the tops in glaze and set back on cooking rack. Enjoy alongside fresh, hot coffee.
Notes
- When working with whole wheat, keep in mind it soaks up way more liquid than AP flour. Always add your flour slowly. You are wanting to keep the dough a little tacky when mixing the first time to avoid dry, gross donuts.
- You could substitute the home-milled wheat for the same amount of store bought whole wheat flour. The same rules apply for this whole wheat flour, add slowly to avoid adding too much.
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