Doughnuts!!

So much snow means so much opportunity to do things we'd never normally have time for! Like making doughnuts! The idea had never even crossed my mind but my sister-in-law Stacy made them on the first day of the snow (did I mention we've had 2 Blizzards within a week and have about 3 1/2 feet of snow on the ground and 6 foot drifts right now?) and her pictures on Facebook looked so good! Plus, it seemed like such a cool thing to try-I've never deep-fried anything in my life! It was kind of surreal to make something I didn't really think I could make!

We used a Food Network Alton Brown Recipe but per Stacy's suggestion used vanilla instead of the nutmeg. We also did a half batch.

Step 1: Leave dough mixture to rest in the bowl for an hour


Step 2: Roll out dough with lots of flour and make 2 1/2 inch circles. We used the top of a Pam cooking spray container :-)


Step 3: Make the inner holes-we used the cap of the vanilla extract :-) Gotta get creative when you don't have fancy baking tools.


Step 4: Let the dough rest (we ended up letting it rest then storing it in the fridge overnight because we ran out of time/energy to finish)

Step 5: Fry 'em up!




(I LOVE this picture!)

Step 6: Toppings!

Cinnamon Sugar


Vanilla glaze


And of course, with a 4 year old girl in the house, pink sprinkles

VARIATION: Fry up the no-hole variety for some Jelly donuts


Fill those by 1)making a hole with a toothpick
2)filling a ziploc bag with strawberry preserves
3)filled 'em up!



Step 7: Dig in! They were all really tasty :-)