Baking Students: Week: 10-something: Donuts for Donuts

Have you ever seen the donut chefs, if that is what they are called, making the donuts behind the glass walls at cafes? The way that they seemingly effortlessly knead the dough, plonk it down the heated elevators, and out comes the golden bun of a donut. Sizzle, sizzle. It is a childhood bliss to me, I can just about smell it from the other side of my laptop screen. Can you?

So it was during the last couple of weeks that we had at our flat at university, when Pamela, Caroline and Jennifer had left, that Sophie, Sixian and I set out to make the most amazing home made donuts ever!!

Mixing up the dough

Melting butter to add to the flour

Leaving the donut dough to rise while we went to the shops to get 2 litres of sunflower oil to fry the donuts in ;)

Oiling baking trays to put the donuts on to rise

Folding the donut dough to take out all the bubbles. It was very soothing ;)

Kneading the dough <3

Sophie having fun playing with the end piece of dough ;)

Cutting the donuts out. You would never guess what equipment we used!! ... We used a "Tea makes everything better" mug for the outer circle, and (after trying a spoon) we used a toothpaste lid for the inner circle. It was Sophie's brilliant creativity that helped us get the right-shape donut ;)

Trying to maintain the temperature of the oil for the donuts.

Letting the donuts rise a tad before sweating them in the oil

Mixing the icing

We accidentally almost burnt the kitchen down by spilling oil on a hot plate!! :o Luckily Sophie has the health and safety certificate and knew what to do!! haha :D