Your family will love these homemade donuts! Make it more fun by choosing one color to be the imposter and filling it with vanilla pudding!
Ingredients:
For the Donuts:
- 1 and 1/8 cup whole milk, warm
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons (one package) Instant Or Active Dry Yeast
- 2 whole large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 and 1/4 sticks unsalted butter melted
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Oil for frying
- store bought cake frosting
- food coloring
- black decorating gel
- Warm the milk to about 105 degrees. Add the milk to a mixing bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Add the yeast and stir to combine. Let the yeast rest for 5 minutes.
- Add the beaten eggs and melted butter to the bowl and stir to combine.
- While the mixer is running slowly, add the flour and salt and mix until the dough comes together. Mix for a whole five minutes to work the dough well. Turn off the bowl and let the dough sit in the bowl of the mixer for 10 minutes.
- After the rest period turn the dough out into a lightly oiled bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours, but up to overnight. The goal is to get the dough cold enough to work with easily and have the butter solidify.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and roll it out on a lightly floured surface until it is 1/2 to 1/3 of an inch thick. Use a biscuit cutter to cut the donut shapes out of your dough.
- Place the cut donuts on a lightly greased baking sheet.
- Repeat with the remaining dough.
- Cover the donuts and let them rise until doubled in size, about one hour. The donuts will be very puffy and airy looking.
- Heat a few inches of oil in a large cast iron skillet or fryer over medium heat until the oil reaches 350 to 375 degrees (use a thermometer!). Carefully add the donuts to the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 1 1/2 minutes per side.
- Use a slotted spoon to remove the donuts from the hot oil and place them on a paper towel lined baking sheet to remove extra grease. Allow them to fully cool.
- While they cook, mix your frosting with good colors of your choice to create your color characters. You will definitely need white, light blue, and light purple to create the eye shield piece but other colors are your choice.
- Frost your donuts by first creating the eye shield. Next cover the rest of your donut in any color then use black decorating gel to outline the eye shield piece.
- Enjoy!
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