Glazed Donuts...Live A Little!!

This is my "go to" recipe when Hubby asks for homemade donuts. I attain got tried many, many donut recipes over the years as well as this is his favorite; it is simple, delicious as well as it has never failed me.

 2 envelopes of dry out active yeast (I usage ii scant tablespoons)
¼ loving cup warm water
1½ cups warm milk
½ loving cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (room temperature)
1/3 loving cup butter flavored Crisco
5 cups all role flour
Sprinkle the yeast over the warm H2O as well as allow it represent five minutes or until foamy. In a stand upwards mixer, mix ii cups of the flour, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, shortening, as well as yeast mixture until good mixed (takes simply a infinitesimal on depression speed).
Beat inwards the residuum of the flour, ½ loving cup at a time, until the dough doesn't stick to the sides of the bowl anymore. Once it is at that stage, knead for virtually five minutes.
Place the dough inwards a greased (I usage cooking spray) bowl, embrace it amongst plastic roll as well as sit down it inwards a really warm business office of your kitchen for an hour, or until the dough doubles inwards size.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface as well as gently gyre it out to ½" thickness. Cut amongst a floured donut cutter (see authorities annotation below). Set cutting out donuts on a foursquare of parchment newspaper that you lot lightly sprayed amongst cooking spray. This volition assistance you lot tremendously when it comes fourth dimension to elevator the donuts into the cooking oil.
Spray the tops of the donuts amongst a lilliputian cooking spray as well as embrace loosely amongst plastic roll for a 2nd rise (takes virtually 45 minutes to an hour). Heat vegetable crude oil inwards a deep fryer (see authorities annotation below) to 350 (I cooked mine at 375) as well as gently lower donuts into oil. Fry until they plow squeamish as well as golden thence flip them.

Drained cooked donuts on a baking rack as well as earlier they cool all the agency down, dip them inwards a uncomplicated saccharide glaze (or cinnamon sugar).

SIMPLE SUGAR GLAZE
1/3 loving cup melted butter
ii cups powdered sugar
ane teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon almond extract
iv tablespoons hot water

Mix everything together (starting amongst three tablespoons hot water, thence adding the terminal tablespoon if you lot demand it).

NOTE: My donut cutter is a small-scale pineapple tin plow over the axe that I've removed the transcend & bottom from. For the pump hole, I usage a small-scale circle cookie cutter.

NOTE: I oestrus my crude oil inwards an electrical frying pan thence I tin plow over the axe regulate the temperature (and it doesn't attain got every bit much crude oil every bit a deep fryer).

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