Old-Fashioned Donuts

Summary by Krater

Nick Gavin from ChefSteps demonstrates how to make old-fashioned cake donuts from scratch, covering mixing, chilling, cutting, and frying.

From the video

Answers: How do you make old-fashioned cake donuts?

• Old-fashioned donuts
• Cake donut recipe
• Frying donuts
• Dough mixing and chilling

What it concludes

• Chilling the base dough makes it super sticky and a little annoying to touch.
• Adding plastic wrap directly to the mixing bowl and spraying it makes the dough easier to get out and cleans the bowl easier.
• Chilling the cut donut dough makes them easier to handle when transferring from the tray to the fryer.
• Old-fashioned donuts take about 3 to 4 minutes to fry in total at 340 °F or 170 °C.