Desserts & Baking

Home made cinnamon sugar doughnuts

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Easy
30 minutes plus resting time
10 minutes

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Ingredients

Method
  • 2 T dry instant yeast
  • 1 1/2 t warm water
  • 1/2 cup warm milk
  • 60 g caster sugar
  • 50 g butter, melted
  • 2 1/4 cup cake flour
  • 2 free range eggs
  • 2 cups oil
  • For the cinnamon sugar:

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 - 2 t ground cinnamon

Method

Ingredients

Add the yeast, milk and water together in a bowl and mix to combine, leave aside for 10 minutes.

Once the yeast mixture has rested add the butter, flour, eggs, sugar to the same bowl and mix lightly with a whisk or fork.

Bring the ingredients together with your hands, turn out of the bowl and knead for a few minutes, be careful not to handle it too much. When smooth, leave in a buttered bowl covered by a tea towel to double in size.

Once doubled, punch the dough down and knead for another 5 minutes and roll out the mixture until about 3 cm thick. Cut out circles with a cookie cutter and cut an incision around the width of it. Alternatively roll into fritters with the palms of your hands.

Leave on a tray for another 30 minutes to 40 minutes covered by a tea towel until they have risen again.

Carefully fry in medium to hot oil until lightly golden for about a minute or so, turning in the oil to color evenly. Once golden brown remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen roll.

For the cinnamon sugar: mix 1 cup of sugar with 1 t – 2 t ground cinnamon and roll the fritters or doughnuts in there immediately to coat with sugar evenly.

FOR JAM DOUGHNUTS:
Roll in cinnamon sugar and then make a small slit in the side with a sharp knife. Using a small piping bag, carefully insert the nozzle into the slit and squeeze about a teaspoon of jam inside or use a clean syringe to do the job.

FOR ICING SUGAR DRIZZLED DOUGHNUTS:
Sift 200g icing sugar into a bowl and add ¼ cup of water to make a drizzle texture. Add more water to make a thinner Yeah drizzle if you like and more icing sugar to make it thicker. Drizzle over the doughnuts to set.

Hannah Lewry

Recipe by: Hannah Lewry

Woolworths TASTE’s Food Editor is passionate about conjuring up fresh ideas for fast and easy dishes that taste as great as they look. Turn to her expertise for everything from time-saving mid-week food to lazy weekend meals. You’ll have a lot of fun in the kitchen while you’re about it.

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Comments

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    Denise
    6 October 2020

    Is it table spoons or tea spoons

    1. Katharine Pope
      22 October 2020

      Hi Denise, we use a lowercase t for teaspoons, and an uppercase T for tablespoons. Happy cooking!

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