How to Make Homemade Glazed Doughnuts

Summary by Krater

America's Test Kitchen demonstrates how to make homemade yeast doughnuts with a tender, fluffy texture, including mixing, kneading with butter, overnight chilling, rolling, cutting, proofing, deep-frying, and glazing with plain, chocolate, and raspberry glazes.

From the video

Answers: How do I make homemade yeast doughnuts?

• yeast doughnuts recipe
• enriched dough mixing
• kneading butter into dough
• dough proofing in oven
• deep frying doughnuts
• doughnut glazing techniques

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon instant yeast
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons table salt
• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 quarts vegetable oil
• 3 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup hot water

What it concludes

• Using all-purpose flour instead of bread flour results in a softer, less protein-dense doughnut.
• Waiting to add salt and butter after initial mixing and resting prevents them from interfering with gluten development.
• Leaving the dough in the refrigerator overnight firms up the dough and makes it much easier to stamp out doughnuts.
• Hot water melts confectioners' sugar immediately without graininess when making glaze.