Easy Doughnuts

I never knew doughnuts were so easy to make until the day I saw this site and made up my mind to make it the very moment forgetting the calorie and fat content in it.

It was around 5:30 in the evening today when I started the prep, thinking that I can finish off by the time my hubby is back from work. But to my surprise I finished of my work, cleaned up the place, washed the dishes, took pictures, formatted them and now posting it at 6:30 p.m. It was that easy and just too good. Off late I haven't had such good doughnuts. It just melted away in the mouth.

I was so apprehensive about making them because I am not too good with confectionery and baking, thus ended up taking just half the quantity of ingredients. I also considered the fact that 18 doughnuts(according to the author of the recipe on allrecipes.com) would be too much for 2 of us to eat, even if it turns out to be good. I got 8 doughnuts out of this quantity. So my recipes goes like this. I also followed couple of comments mentioned by some reviewers which made the process easier.


Ingredients:

• 1.5 tbsp - Yoghurt
• 1/4 cup -Powdered sugar
• 1-2 tbsp - Butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 of an Egg
• 3 drops - Vanilla essence
• 3/4 cup - All purpose flour
• A pinch - Baking soda
• A pinch - Salt
• Oil for deep frying
• Some flour for dusting the marble
• Some sugar powder for dusting

Method:

• Cream butter and sugar in a bowl till smooth
• Add the egg and vanilla essence and mix well
• Sift the baking soda, salt and flour and keep aside
• Stir in the flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture alternating it with yogurt.
• Mix and kneed well until you form a soft dough out of it.
• Clean the kitchen marble and dust it with some flour and roll the dough on to the surface in 1/3 inch thickness.
• Cut the dough using a doughnut cutter and let it stand for 10 minutes. As I did not have a doughnut cutter I used a small bowl with a sharp edge and bottle cap to get the shape. The dough which is cut from the center was collected and rolled again and cut.
• After 10 minutes, heat enough oil in a wok type utensil and fry them till golden brown on medium low flame. It wouldnot take more than a minute to fry them. Strain onto kitchen paper towels and when still warm roll them on a pile of sugar powder and dust them well. Serve immediately.

My doughnuts have become cold and hubby has still not come home. :( Guess its his bad luck!!