Wise readers must be familiar with doughnuts, right? Besides the ones with a hole in the middle, we often enjoy doughnuts with various fillings. Now, to make perfectly filled doughnuts, let’s learn how to make them directly.
Filled doughnuts are not difficult to make. The ingredients needed to make doughnuts are quite simple. Among them are high-protein flour, sugar, yeast, milk, egg yolks, and butter.
First, start by adding all the dry ingredients first, such as flour, sugar, and yeast. Stir briefly, then add liquids such as milk, eggs, and cold water/ice water. Ice water added to the dough, with a ratio of 1:2 (between milk and ice water). The next step is to add the eggs, both egg whites and egg yolks. Using more egg yolks serves to make the doughnut texture softer. Meanwhile, egg whites function to bind the dough and strengthen the doughnut dough’s structure.
The next step is to mix the dough until all the ingredients are well combined, then add the butter. In addition to adding aroma, the use of butter can also make the doughnut dough softer. But if you don’t like the aroma of butter, you can replace it with margarine. While adding butter/margarine, the dough should be stirred again until it has a elastic texture. Elastic texture means that the dough is not easily torn and can be stretched or rolled out very thinly. To get an elastic texture, the mixing process should be done for 25-35 minutes.
After the dough becomes elastic, let it rest for 10 minutes at room temperature. During this resting process, the dough can be covered with a cloth or placed in an airtight container. During this resting process, the dough will expand and be ready to be shaped into 50-gram balls and flattened. After dividing the dough into balls, place them on a baking sheet and let them rest again for 1 hour until they double in size.
Once the dough has doubled in size, the doughnuts can be fried in plenty of hot oil. Immediately flip the doughnuts after one side turns brown. Flip only once to achieve a white ring in the middle of the doughnut.
If readers want to fill the doughnuts, they can choose filling ingredients according to their taste. For example, to make a custard filling, the ingredients used include egg yolks, salt, milk, flour, cornstarch, and sugar. All the ingredients are mixed together and cooked over medium heat while stirring until thickened.
After the filling thickens, add butter and a little vanilla extract to enrich the aroma. Vanilla extract can be replaced with rum, if desired. The filling should not be made too thick for a better taste when eaten with the doughnut. Besides custard filling, strawberry jam, blueberry jam, or peanut butter can also be used as simple yet delicious doughnut fillings.
Now, to fill the doughnut, insert the filling into a piping bag (triangular plastic) to be squeezed into the doughnut. Don’t forget to poke one side of the doughnut with chopsticks. Push the chopsticks to the left and right sides, so that when the filling is squeezed, it can fill various sides inside the doughnut.
The wheat flour produced by PT Manunggal Perkasa varies in its protein content. To make soft doughnuts, it is recommended to use high-protein flour. High-protein wheat flour produced by PT Manunggal Perkasa suitable for making doughnuts are KANTIL, ASTER, or MELATI.
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