Homemade Doughnuts
Comments: Leave eggs to rest at room temperature for a few hours before using them.
Approximately 36 doughnuts
IngredientsPreparation
  • 1/4 cup [60 g] butter
  • 1 cup [200 g] sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 3/4 cups [525 g] flour
  • 4 teaspoons [20 mL] baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 3/4 cup [190 mL] milk
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] vanilla
  • Cooking oil
  • Icing sugar
  • Cream butter; well beat into sugar and eggs.
  • Mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
  • Mix togehter milk and vanilla.
  • Alternately mix dry ingredients and vanilla milk into first mixture.
  • Refrigerate dough for 4 to 12 hours.
  • Roll dough until 1/2-inch [1.3-cm] thick then cut dough into doughnut shapes.
  • Preheat cooking oil into a large casserole until hot, [360°F / 182°C].
  • Fry a few doughnuts at a time into oil until golden brown, turning doughnuts once.
  • Using a slotted spoon, transfer golden doughnuts onto paper toweling to cool completely.
  • Repeat with remaining dough.
  • Generously dust cooled doughnuts with icing sugar.