YUMMY CHOCOLATE DOUGHNUTS

Recipe for Chocolate Doughnuts

Given a choice between a cake and doughnuts, my daughter will always go for a doughnut. Just for her I have tried different recipes of doughnut. This recipe gave me soft and spongy doughnuts with perfect texture and I am sharing the same with you today.

Chocolate topped doughnuts are liked by most people. Plain doughnuts also taste good. Plain doughnuts can be rolled in cinnamon flavoured castor sugar or the  chocolate ones can be decorated with chocolate vermicelli, dessicated coconut, colourful balls, you can be at your best creativity. There is in fact no limit to this….

Ingredients (yields 30 doughnuts)

• 250 ml yoghurt
• 200 gms sugar
• 600 gms plain flour
• 50 gms plain flour (for dusting)
• 50 gms melted butter
• 1 tbsp vanilla essence
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt

For topping

• 400 gms dark cooking chocolate (roughly chopped)

How to make

Sift the flour, salt and baking powder.

Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl. Add sugar, continue beating until soft peaks are formed.

Stir in the melted butter and essence. Now add the yoghurt and beat. Fold in gently the  dry ingredients spoon by spoon. Bring together all the ingredients with light hands to form a soft dough. If it feels sticky add more flour. Rest the dough for 10 minutes.

Roll the dough. Cut in doughnut shape with a doughnut cutter (I have used lid of a jar and lid of a soft drink bottle).

Heat oil for deep frying at very high heat. Slide in 3 or 4 doughnuts and reduce the heat  (as we do for Gulabjamuns). Flip the doughnuts. When the doughnuts are double in size and golden brown in colour, drain the oil and remove in a plate.

For chocolate icing

Put the chopped chocolate in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave the for 40sec at high power. Stir well.

Again microwave for another 40 Sec. When the doughnuts are completely cooled dip them one by one in the chocolate such that they are half coated with chocolate.

Carefully place them on wire rack. When the chocolate sets store in an air tight container.  Stays outside freeze for 5 to 6 days.