Doughnuts

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.

Of course, having just conquered the beast that is yeast this summer, I was all about diving head first into the yeast doughnut recipe from Alton Brown. Really, the recipe itself is amazingly simple; the only difficult thing it requires is time. Since I didn’t really relish the thought of waking up at 5am to make breakfast doughnuts, I just waited until nap time and, voila, breakfast doughnuts are transformed into snack time! And we had a fun decorating party with the sprinkles to boot!

These doughnuts were a great recipe, the cinnamon added that perfect little je ne sais quoi flavor and for the glaze I just quickly whipped together a cup of powdered sugar with 2 Tbsp milk and watered it down until it was the perfect dipping consistency. For the doughnut holes I experimented a little on the glaze, and I must say that a little splash of orange extract is divine on these beauties!