Description
Enjoy making these soft, fluffy homemade donuts that stay fresh for days. This easy recipe gives you bakery-style results at home, perfect for family snacks, weekend treats, or sharing warm, freshly made donuts with loved ones.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 room-temperature eggs
- 1 packet dry active yeast
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 60 g granulated sugar
- A pinch of salt
- 60 g unsalted butter
- 250 ml warm milk
- About 500 g flour
Instructions
- Melt the butter in the milk, either on the stove or in the microwave.
- Allow the mixture to cool until it’s warm to the touch, not hot, so it doesn’t harm the yeast.
- Pour the warm butter–milk mixture into a large mixing bowl.
- Add the vanilla extract, sugar, eggs, salt, and dry yeast.
- Whisk everything together until well combined.
- Gradually incorporate the flour: start with the whisk, then switch to your hands or a stand mixer fitted with dough hooks as the dough thickens.
- Knead until the dough becomes soft, elastic, and no longer sticky.
- Cover the bowl with cling film and let the dough rise in a warm, turned-off oven for 1 to 1½ hours, until doubled in size.
- Deflate the dough gently to remove excess air.
- Roll it out on a floured surface to a thickness of about 1 to 1.5 cm.
- Cut out donut shapes using a donut cutter or a glass (about 10 cm), then cut out the centre using a smaller cutter.
- Place each donut on a floured surface and lightly dust the tops with flour.
- Cover and let them rise again for 30 minutes under a cloth or cling film.
- Heat the oil and fry the donuts on each side until golden, this cooks very quickly.
- Finish with your favourite glaze or serve warm with salted butter caramel.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American cuisine
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 donut
- Calories: 250 kcal