I thought l'd kick off some healthier eating on my part by baking some doughnuts    Well, they aren't fried anyway!

Ingredients

170g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
75g superfine sugar (l used ground up raw sugar)
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
65g milk
75g plain yoghurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, nutmeg and salt together for approx. 25 seconds at speed 6.
Add butter and mix 20 seconds at speed 5-6.
Put in whisk and add milk, yoghurt, vanilla and egg.  Whisk for 20 seconds at speed 3 (l scraped down the sides half way through).

Use piping bag or spoon to put mixture into doughnut tray, until about 3/4 full.  Bake in oven until golden brown and spring back when touched (around 10 minutes).  Let cool slightly, remove from tray and cover with favourite glaze.




Recipe from Lara Ferroni's Doughnuts
(Thanks for buying the book and telling us all about it Maddy!)

members' comments

Molly - Oh my goodness! Okay.  They're NOT fried doughnuts.  And I am quite partial to fried doughnuts. BUT!!!!!  They are delumptious!!!!  The kids are lining up for more....  they're only coated in fine sugar (had to brush with butter to make it stick) and mine have cinnamon as well.  Shhhh,  don't tell 'em!!   Oh,  and I didn't have any yogurt,  so I used Ricotta cheese.  I've converted it to Failsafe diet... and put it on my blog.  Smiley  Thank you!!!!!

Denzelmum -
Made half in my mini donut maker and half in the oven.  We enjoyed the one from mini donut maker without any topping, yum! Don't have donut tray, just used my muffin top pan. Different way to finish and turn out very different.  With electric donut maker taste more like donut, nice plain... while with muffin top, well it's more like muffin top.  Great option for lunch box.


 

 

 

Thanks everyone - being having some busy nights at work so haven't had a chance to check forum or use my eggs yet!  Am thinking a yummy sponge cake would help me getter over nights though     Might try salting some eggs in my next batch from the ducks.

I did use a baguette tin for mine.  I imagine they aren't essential though.  JulieO has a link on the second page for them.

That does sound devine!

Made these for a friends party yesterday. Delicious!!! Everyone raved about them. I didn't have any issues with overflowing as long as a resisted the urge to overfill. My crumpet rings were the perfect pastry cut out size!

Am incredibly jealous.  Norway would have to be my favourite country next to Australia!

My dog is a biter, and l am still trying to break her of it 2 years later! However, she stopped biting hard very early on.  I found a very loud ow followed by no attention for a little while made her stop biting hard.