My 1st Doughnut

Last Saturday i made some doughnuts and it was a success! (huhu…so proud of myself)

I got the recipe from my “baking Mentor” :p
here’s the list of ingredient:
Ingredients for dough
350g flour
half teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon instant yeast
30g castor sugar
30g butter
1 egg
150ml milk

Ingredient for coating
castor sugar OR
1 chocholate bar + half can of condensed milk (water heat)

Instructions
(1) heat 150ml of milk till luke warm (not boil)
(2) mix milk, 30g butter, 1 egg
(3) add in flour, salt, sugar and yeast
(4) leave the dough at room temperature for 1 hour, cover with damn cloth
(5) fry it and add sugar/chocolate coating

Anyway, i don’t have proper measuring instruments for the ingredients so i improvise and modified the recipe a bit.

Here’s what i used:
600g flour
1/3 tablespoon of salt
1 packet of instant yeast (suitable for 500g of flour, so said the lable)
2 tablespoon of castor sugar
60g butter
2 eggs
2 cup of milk (with my new nescafe cup)

After mixing the dough ingredients in my pot, the mixture turn out to be too liquid. It is somewhat like “pisang goreng” mixture. So, i consulted my Mentor and she said i have to add more flour. So, i slowly fold in more flour. After adding another 300g of flour, the mixture finally form a soft dough. Instead of using my hands, i used the wooden spatula to knit it a lil’ more. Then i left it for some time so that the dough will raise.
…and after 50 mins….alas! my dough is raised and ready to be shaped and fried.

At first i have no idea how big i need to shape it. However, after some experimentation, i finally got it right! The secret for a perfectly cooked doughnut is not to make a round (cross-section) dough ring with small cross-section diameter. Instead, make it FLAT! In such way, u can make bigger doughnuts!

Next, down it goes into the frying pot. Nothing special here, but it is important to note that the dough expand less after some time. So take as little time as possible between start of dough shaping till it is in the frying pot.

After the tedious task of frying the doughnut one by one, i finally came to the point to coat it. Originally, i wanted to make 4 different types of coating: classic sugar coat, cinnamon sugar coat, apple struddle sugar flavour, and chocolate. In the end, out of laziness, i mixed cinnamon, apple struddle flavour and sugar as 1 coating :p still, the result taste superb 
(though i lost my appetite for it since i had to eat quite a few failed experiment samples :p)

Since i couldn’t have finish all the doughnuts i made, i gave them to my friends. Of course, the feedback is positive.