There is no better way to start your day than with a scrumptious, warm donut. With this easy, delicious recipe, you can whip up a batch of donuts in about 30 minutes. Serve with a cup of piping hot coffee or hot cocoa, and you are starting your day off right!
I will admit one of my weaknesses is donuts. Thank goodness there is not a donut shop in the immediate vicinity. Something about a warm, fresh donut and a cup of hot coffee makes me feel…well, happy! For years I never even thought about making homemade donuts; I assumed they were difficult to make and wouldn’t turn out as good as bakery donuts. Besides, I had a huge aversion to frying food! But as I began to follow more food blogs and saw other people making donuts, I thought maybe I could too! I started with baked donuts; I wasn’t ready to fry yet. They were good, some great even, but it wasn’t a bakery donut. One morning on a whim, I decided, I’M FRYING DONUTS! They were amazing! My kids loved them! My husband loved them! And I was hooked. Is frying food healthy…no, but “everything in moderation” is my new motto. I had a new mission to create an easy, delicious, and easily adjustable recipe, basically a great base donut recipe.
I was wrong about donuts being challenging to make. These donuts come together in about 20 minutes and fry up in about 2 minutes (per batch). You have warm, fresh, homemade donuts in about 45 minutes from start to finish! Now some donut recipes can undoubtedly be more difficult. Some recipes call for yeast, and of course, in that case, you need to allow time for the dough to rise. Yeast donuts can take 2 to 3 hours to make from beginning to end. Maybe someday, I will try my hand at yeast donuts, but for now, I love this simple recipe for donuts, and I’m excited to share it with you.
TO MAKE THESE DONUTS:
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