Doughnuts

Name: Doughnuts
Ingredients: About 250 g fruit curd (Lemon Curd Passion Fruit Curd or Sweet/Sour Gooseberry Curd); 2 eggs, beaten; 30 g unsalted butter; 250 ml milk; 275 g caster sugar; ½ tsp sea salt; 7 g sachet fast-action dried yeast; 500 g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting; Vegetable oil, for deep-frying; About 250 g fruit curd (Lemon Curd Passion Fruit Curd or Sweet/Sour Gooseberry Curd); About 250 g fruit curd (Lemon Curd Passion Fruit Curd or Sweet/Sour Gooseberry Curd); About 250 g fruit curd (Lemon Curd Passion Fruit Curd or Sweet/Sour Gooseberry Curd)

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party

By Kerstin Rodgers

Published 2014

About

I’m not a doughnut lover, unless I make my own, when I can eat them hot and oozing, straight out of the fryer. You could try dusting them with different flavoured sugars like lavender- or cinnamon-infused sugars.

Ingredients

500 g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
7 g sachet fast-action dried yeast
½

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the flour, yeast, salt and 75g of the sugar into a bowl.

Warm the milk and butter in a small pan over a medium heat, taking it off the heat when the butter starts to melt. Beat the eggs into the warmed mixture and then pour this into your bowl of dry ingredients. Using your hands, knead the dough until it is smooth -this will take about 5 minutes.

Pat the dough into a round