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Donal’s Christmas Donuts


happy Christmas food tubers welcome to
my Christmas kitchen check it out we’ve
been decking the Harz we’ve got lots of
Christmas lights up and now it’s time to
cook up something beautiful and festive
what I’m going to make for you today is
a really simple lovely Christmas
alternative to the classic mince pie
beautiful Christmas doughnuts so to
start off milk goes in I’m going to let
that just kind of come up to a little
bit of temperature just until it’s
lukewarm if you can get your finger that
in there and it’s nice and warm if it’s
too warm for your finger it’s too warm
for the East oh okay that’s just about
right so I’m going to turn off the heat
let a little bit of butter in here while
the butter is melting wait let’s talk
about the dry ingredients in this I have
some plain flour a little bit of active
dry yeast and this is straight ready to
use so you can mix that straight into
the flour a little bit of sugar going in
here and a teaspoon of cinnamon for that
classic Christmas spice now I have two
egg yolks and one whole egg here which
I’ve just whisked together I mix in our
egg yolk while we’re egg yolks and eggs
while rada and whack in the butter and
the milk at this point completely melted
but it’s not the end of the world and
then what I’m gonna do is just slowly
but surely bring those dry ingredients
into the wet ingredients and what you
should be left with is a kind of a rough
dough
just tip it out just a little bit of
flour just it over and we’re going to
start working this dough because there’s
yeast in there we need to knead it and
we need to knead it because we need to
you know that kind of way now if you’re
worried about kneading dough leave me a
comment below and I’m happy to answer
your questions about it but what you
should be looking for is a smooth and
elastic dough that springs back when you
touch it with your finger just show you
in just one moment but as you can see
like it changes from what’s a kind of
very loose and kind of rough dough when
you first put it together to something
that is really smooth and elastic and
look at that like that’s exactly what
you’re after it’s not springiness that
you get left with after kneading the
dough and now that I’m completely out of
breath I’m going to put this into a bowl
but before I pop it into a bowl so many
mince pies this Christmas I’m just not
used to it okay get a little bit of oil
in there something like a light olive
oil or just sunflower oil and this just
prevents it from sticking to the sides
so just like the oil the sides place
that straight in there this is covered
in cling film it’s going to go into a
warm dark place and rise for two hours
okay we’ve got dough it’s risen it’s
doubled in size has been rising for a
little over two hours and now I’m just
going to punch it down oh that is the
best part so I’m just going to turn it
out a little bit of flour just give it a
quick need okay this goes into the bowl
now and it’s going to rise again for
three hours and then it’s ready to shape
right we have got a beautiful dough
which is risen and now it’s time to
shape it into those little doughnut
shapes just roll it out into a nice kind
of sausage shape so this is looking
pretty good so just using one of these
babies or a knife if you have a knife
just run your blade through it nice
little pieces like this and roll up
these little Donuts into nice little
bars like this that’s what you should be
left with looking beautiful okay so just
place them aside and actually I’ve just
been joined by my Christmas dog on the
set max max look over here look over
here can you see him you see you back to
our doughnuts
beautifully sentient spliced doughnuts
and now they’re gonna rise for about 15
minutes after all that rising we have
doughnuts that have risen up and are
looking really really tasty so now I
need to fry them off I have a big part
of sunflower oil and I have a little
parameter in here so I’ve got this to a
bit 160 degrees Celsius and that’s the
temperature you need to do to kind of
get these evenly fried off so I’m gonna
place into a little kind of what you
call these kind of little slotted spoon
a ladle thing so get one of these place
one or two of your doughnuts in maybe I
go for a three and then just lower them
gently into the oil
after about two to three minutes you’ve
got that lovely golden color so turn
them over and let them get another
golden color on the other side and then
join them okay last of our donuts are
ready to come out well they’re still
beautiful and hot what I’m gonna do is
roll them in a cinnamon sugar very very
easy to make I’ve got some sugar some
golden caster sugar and a little bit of
cinnamon Soave two teaspoons going in
here and just quickly mix it through and
what you’ll get left with is this really
beautiful kind of aromatic spice sugar
and just sprinkle it all the way across
the tray roll those hot donuts in that
cinnamon sugar and look at that
beautiful and golden covered in
fantastic cinnamon sugar that is a
proper doughnut to be proud of so I’m
just going to do the rest of them if
you’re looking for this recipe it’s in
Jaime’s magazine issue 43 and it’s the
big Christmas one he’s a big smiley face
on him looking very happy and very
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the details below so a last sprinkle of
that Christmas sugar and in a piping bag
like this I’m gonna up the Christmas
ante I’m gonna add a little bit of
cranberry sauce straight into the center
of this rate hit of Christmas beauty and
just poke this in and kind of fill it
with that cranberry sauce until you feel
it nice and plump inside so if you push
too hard on your piping bag this can
happen but don’t worry you can just you
can just eat this one this one is got
one that I’m going to eat okay so mmm
that is Christmas in one big mouth bub
properly delicious Christmas food better
than any mince pie you’ll ever taste
this is seriously good and if you want
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