I'm baaack!
I wasn't taking part in the Daring Bakers Challenges for a while. There were lots of reasons, mostly centering on my expanding waistline, and the hot, hot summer. But now that it is cooling down, I'm back in the mood to bake. (The waistline will just have to fend for itself!)
The October Challenge was Doughnuts! The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including Alton Brown, Nancy Silverton, Kate Neumann and Epicurious.
The doughnuts could be cake style or yeast raised, but they had to be deep fried. I did the yeast-raised ones, of course. Check out the recipe here. (A word of warning... the recipe makes 24 doughnuts and as many doughnut holes, so, unless you have an army of company coming or a family of teenage boys, cut the recipe in half!)
The instructions said to wait until the doughnuts were completely cool before glazing. Hello! Like I was going to miss out on warm doughnuts with oozy-goozy glaze dripping between my fingers! Not in this girl's kitchen! And it was a good thing I didn't listen, because, while the warm doughnuts were to die for, the cool ones were merely OK. I took some warm ones to work and the rest are getting fed to the chickens, who love them!
I made a simple glaze with powdered sugar and heavy cream, flavored with a little vanilla.
5 comments:
I love the photos and also agree with you on glazing the warm doughnuts...I did the same !
WOWOWOWOW lovely work on this challenge and the iced doughnuts look perfect. Great effort. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Congratulations from Canary islands
Your doughnut looks great! I am dying to have a go cooking them :)
Thanks, everyone! And thanks especially to Audax. From you that is high praise, indeed!
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