Wednesday, October 27, 2010

October Daring Baker's Challenge

The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including Alton Brown, Nancy Silverton, Kate Neumann and Epicurious.


First off, I must say I absolutely LOVE doughnuts! Eating doughnuts always brings me back to my childhood where I loved the plain sugared doughnuts from the neighbourhood bakery. I have always wanted to try my hand at making doughnuts and this challenge was the perfect oppurtunity! The recipe was pretty straightforward, although the dough turned out quite sticky and hard to handle so I had to work a little bit more flour while kneading it. I was glad to see that they rose like little beauties while resting!



It was quite easy frying them in my trusty wok and they fried up pretty quickly!


The final product! I went with my childhood memories and chose to just dust the doughnuts with sugar and a bit of cinnamon!


They were so soft and fluffy and tasty with a hint of nutmeg, and I absolutely love the little airholes from the yeast!


I brought the doughnuts to a gathering of friends and they were wolfed down in seconds! This is definitely something I will make again!


2 comments:

Mary said...

The texture of your doughnuts is perfect! Yes, come to Canada and I'll lead a doughnut tour! Buy 2 airplane seats for the ride home!
:)

Jimena said...

Your doughnuts look great! Wondering if I can join the tour? LOL. It wasn't until reading so many blogs for this challenge that I learned about Canadians and there love affair for doughnuts :)

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