Crazy over Donut!

Still remember the days whereby you need to queue up an hour just to buy some fanciful donuts?   While I find that Singaporean loved to "Q" hahahaha...I don't know why!!

To me I find that those fanciful donut with fillings or coating on the outside are too sweet!! (Maybe because I don't really have sweet tooth).

If given a choice, I still prefer the traditional type of donut..the plain one coated with castor sugar!

If  you really like to have some other taste, you can melt some coating chocolate and coat the whole donut or just the top.  You can also sprinkle rainbow rice on top of the chocolate before it's  set to have another style.  Actually it's all up to your creation!!

So here's the basic plain donut recipe that I'm sharing with you:

Ingredients (recipe makes about 20 donuts - depending on size you make):
100g Soft Butter (Butter thaw 1 hour from fridge)
60g Sugar
30g Milk Powder (can omit if you don't like milk taste but actually it's nice to add it)
1 Egg
1/2 tsp Salt
15g Instant Yeast
200ml Water
350g Bread Flour (also known as High Protein Flour)

150g Plain Flour

Grease some baking trays in advance first.

Add all ingredients in mixer bowl (except the 2 flours) and beat with dough hook at medium speed for about 5 minutes.

Turn to slow speed and add in the 2 types of flours to mix slowly and after mixing well, turn to medium speed to beat into a smooth shiny dough (about 10 minutes).

Leave dough in a bowl and cover it to let it rest for 40 minutes. (DO NOT EXCEED this timing).

Cut dough into small portion of about 50g each and roll into round balls and leave it on greased tray to let it proof for 10 minutes. (Leave wide apart as it will expand)

Flatten dough and cut a hole in the center with a cutter and leave dough aside to let it proof for another 1 hour till double in size.

The small dough ball that you cut out can be eaten too..so let it proof till double in size too.

Heat wok with lots of oil till hot and then add in the dough to deep fry with medium fire till golden brown on one side then turn over the donut to fry the other side (do not keep turning the donut ok!).

Coat fried donut with caster sugar when cooled (not when it's hot or else sugar will melt)


Hope you have time to try making own donut to share with friends and family members one day!