Homemade Doughnuts

Making the Starter
Originally uploaded by tracyg00

Last weekend, the kids made their own doughnuts. I have an addiction to cooking magazines and occasionally, they'll leaf through them (looking for toys). They came across a photo of doughnut holes and wanted to make them. I thought, "sure....that should be pretty easy". It was a little more than I had bargained for. First, I couldn't find the pastry hook for my stand mixer. Megan said she would mix it by hand. She did - I would have scrapped the project.

Here's the chef at work:



First we had to make a starter with yeast, water and flour (top photo). It had to rise for an hour. Tick, tock, tick, tock. Then we had to make the dough with more yeast.....and let that sit for another hour. Ugh.

We finally got to the point of rolling out the dough and cutting out the holes.



They're ready to fry:





We fried them up in the oil and then rolled them in sugar. The finished product:





Here's the kicker......they didn't even taste that good. Megan was sure to tell everyone they took "THREE HOURS" to make. She decided Dunkin Donuts were much better. After all of that work and clean up....I would agree.