We have been bored. We have been cooking a lot! Neither I nor Tim are working so keeping ourselves and the kids busy all day has its challenges. Preparing for our move has us very busy also. These donuts today took our mind off things for a few hours, they took a bit of time but we’re super rewarding :0). 2TSP dry yeast 2CUPS milk 1/2CUP butter, margarine or shortening, softened 2TSP salt 1/2CUP sugar 1TSP cinnamon 4 eggs 6-7CUPS all purpose flour
Warm your milk in microwave and add your yeast to it. Set aside til yeast activates. Put softened butter, cinnamon, sugar, and your yeast mixture stir til combined. Add in all your eggs and mix well.
Add 2CUPS of flour at a time. We use between 6-7CUPS all purpose flour.
Around my 5 1/2CUP mark I pour out on counter and knead dough til it isn’t sticky and comes together. Dough should be nice and soft. Oil dough and bowl and cover for about an hour plus til atleast double in size.
Once your dough has doubled in size. Roll out on a well floured surface about 1inch thick. I use a biscuit cutter and shot glass to cut out donuts. You can use a glass or a cleaned lid from something if you don’t have a shot glass. You also don’t have to cut the donut holes out either. Once all dough is cut out let rise another half hour to hour.
Get your oil nice and hot, about 350F. Deep fry roughly 1 minute per side. I
Donut toppings: 1TBSP Cinnamon 1CUP sugar mixed for the cinnamon sugar donuts you’ll have extra). 1CUP icing sugar, 1TSP honey, 2TBSP softened butter & 2-4TBSP milk (you want it quite runny) for honey dip donuts, 3/4CUP milk chocolate melted with 2TBSP milk mixed for the chocolate dip donuts. 1CUP icing sugar, 1TSP vanilla extract & 1-2TSP milk & (plus food color of choice-optional) sprinkles for the vanilla dip donuts.
The cinnamon sugar and honey dip needs to be coated as soon as they come out of the fryer. The vanilla dip and chocolate dip allow them to cool for 5-6 minutes before you ice and sprinkle them. These get devoured fast in our house, let us know what you think!!
Do you like smores? These are incredible and absolutely loved in our family! Minimal ingredients and easy to make. Half bag of mini marshmallows Half package of egg roll wrappers 1/2CUP milk chocolate (chocolate chips, I used left over Chocolate and cut up) 1/2CUP crushed gram cracker I like to use an egg to seal the wrappers but you can use a flour/water mixture as well. Depending on how many you are going to make, you’ll either need more or less filling. I made 9 s’mores with the ingredients above.You only want to lay out a few wrappers at a time so they don’t dry out. I sprinkle a TSP of crushed gram closer to bottom edge.Then put a couple TBSP mini marshmallows on, top with some Chocolate then sprinkle more crushed gram on top. Take bottom and flip over fillings, fold sides in. Put egg wash along top edge continue to roll and seal it.
Deep Fry 350F for couple minutes per side. They don’t take long.
We like to put on a cooling rack when done, with paper towel underneath to absorb excess oil. These won’t last long so you better dig in!! I hope your family enjoys them as much as well do.
This recipe is excellent! We always double the batch when we make it. My loaf pans are quite small so I can usually make a couple different sizes of them. 1/2CUP sugar 1/2CUP vegetable oil 2 eggs 3 ripe bananas, mashed juice and zest of 1 blood orange (any orange works) 1/2CUPS cocoa 1 3/4CUPS flour 1/2TSP baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2TSP Salt We like to use 3 bowls. One for the vegetable oil& eggs. One with the bananas and another for the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder/soda & salt. Mash all the bananas well. Stir the flour bowl til well combined. Beat the eggs and oil together.
Mix in your eggs into your mashed bananas and combine well. Zest 1 orange into egg mixture and squeeze all orange juice from orange into egg mixture. Mix well.
Pour your flour mixture into your egg mixture and combined well til all flour is gone.Spray your loaf pans with non stick spray, parchment works and pour your batter into pans. Loaves pans bake in preheated 325F oven for approximately 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted. The smaller pans which are half the thickness take about 20-30minutes.
Cook for a couple minutes then flip out of pan and cool on cooling racks.
The orange flavour really comes out with the cocoa and then the banana flavour. Yum!! We hope your family enjoys it as much as we do.
1 bag miniature marshmallows (white or colored work) 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1TSP vanilla extract 1/2-1CUP chopped walnuts 2 1/2CUPS milk chocolate Cooking spray You can use a baking dish, brownie pan. We like to use our bread pans. Depending on the shape you want to achieve, use that pan you prefer.
Add the sweetened condensed milk and chocolate to a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 1 minute then stir then anther minute. It usually only takes 2-3 minutes. Stir well til well incorporated. Add in your vanilla and walnuts stir in then mix in marshmallows (we like lots of marshmallows, use half the bag if you want less) til all are coated.Dump into sprayed or lined pan. Put in fridgerator for a couple hours til all cooled and set.
Once set. Remove from pan and cut into desired sizes. It’s pretty rich so we find you don’t need big pieces of fudge. Let us know what you think.
