Glazed Donuts with Sprinkles

Name: Glazed Donuts with Sprinkles
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 2 large eggs, beaten; ½ cup milk, just warmed; 2 tablespoons butter, melted; ½ cup granulated sugar; ¼ teaspoon kosher salt; 1 ½ teaspoons maple extract; 1 ½ teaspoons instant yeast; 3 ½ cups cake flour; vegetable oil for frying; 2 cups confectioners’ sugar; ¼ cup milk; 1 teaspoon maple extract; sprinkles

The Estate Bakery

Glazed Donuts with Sprinkles

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The Strategy:

This recipe elevates the nostalgic childhood donut into a wildly sophisticated, deeply luxurious estate bakery experience. By enriching a wildly soft cake flour dough with deeply warm maple extract, then aggressively frying them in screaming-hot oil, the donuts develop a staggeringly crisp, deeply golden crust giving way to an intensely tender, airy crumb. Violently plunging the hot pastries into a thick, stark white maple glaze and aggressively finishing them with wildly colorful sprinkles creates a breathtaking visual contrast against the rich fried dough.

Makes: about 2 dozen donuts | Total Time: 45 minutes till they’re done

Ingredients

For donuts dough

2 large eggs, beaten
½ cup milk, just warmed
2 tablespoons butter, melted
½ cup granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 ½ teaspoons maple extract
1 ½ teaspoons instant yeast
3 ½ cups cake flour

For frying

vegetable oil for frying

For glaze

2 cups confectioners’ sugar
¼ cup milk
1 teaspoon maple extract
sprinkles

Ingredients arranged: massive mounds of stark white cake flour, small bowls of rich maple extract, white granulated sugar, raw eggs, vibrant yellow butter blocks, active dry yeast, and heavy jars of intensely colorful rainbow sprinkles surrounding a heavy metal mixing bowl and a dark iron Dutch oven on a marble prep board.

Instructions

Make dough

Mix the eggs, ½ cup milk, and butter.
Stir in the sugar, salt, maple extract, and yeast.
Add the flour to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook.
Pour in the wet ingredients and mix until the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
Dump the (pretty sticky) dough onto a floured surface and knead a couple of turns until you form it into a ball.
Place the ball into a bowl sprayed with vegetable oil spray.
Roll the dough around in the bowl to coat all sides.
Cover the bowl with a clean towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour (or up to 2 hours if you like).

Shape and rise

Roll out the dough and use a donut cutter (or biscuit round) to cut out the donuts and holes.
Gather up the scraps and re-roll to use up the remaining dough.
Place onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
Place in a warm place and let rise until doubled in size again, about another 30 minutes.

Fry and glaze

Heat oil to 350° in a deep pot or Dutch oven. Only fill the pot one-third up the sides so that when the oil bubbles up, it won’t overflow.
Fry the donuts in batches. Don’t overcrowd the oil. We want them to swim in the oil … not drown! Fry until the donuts are golden on one side, and then carefully flip so that they are golden on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes.
Transfer the donuts to a rack set over paper toweling to drain.
Whisk together the confectioners’ sugar, ¼ cup milk, and vanilla.
Dip one side of the donuts into the glaze.
Return to the rack and douse with sprinkles.

Thing to Note:

Thing to Note:

Thing to Note:

You can use active yeast. Just activate the yeast in ¼ cup warm water. Then combine it with ¼ cup warm milk and continue with the recipe.

A cook's bare hands using a heavy metal spider strainer to violently lift massive, screaming-hot, golden-brown donuts directly out of a bubbling, dark iron Dutch oven filled with rolling, fiercely hot frying oil. The intensely crisp, golden fried dough is violently glistening with hot oil.

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The Heart of the Table

Dropping a massively heavy wooden board completely piled high with screaming-hot, wildly golden fried donuts dripping with stark white maple glaze and vivid, intensely colorful sprinkles directly onto the table instantly commands absolute silence. The fierce, deeply intoxicating smell of hot frying oil, rich caramelized sugar, and warm maple forces everyone to eagerly reach out, aggressively grabbing the wildly sticky, heavily glazed pastries with their bare hands.

8 guests gathered tightly around a laden, sun-drenched rustic dining table, laughing loudly, pulling sticky, frosted maple glazed donuts directly off a massive wooden board, while drinking steaming dark espresso from small cups in a Palm Beach Estate. A massive board of decadent donuts anchors the lively coastal brunch party.

Neighborly Grace

THE PRESENTATION: Do not carefully arrange these in the kitchen. Present the massively hot, heavily glazed donuts piled aggressively high on a rustic wooden board lined with heavy parchment. Allow the staggeringly thick, wildly sticky maple glaze to dramatically pool at the bottom of the board, encouraging guests to violently swipe their half-eaten donuts through the extra frosting.
THE POUR: The fiercely rich, intensely sweet notes of the hot fried dough and thick maple glaze demand a wildly robust, highly bitter pairing. A massively dark, fiercely hot chicory espresso or an incredibly bold, deeply chilled cold brew perfectly slices through the heavy sugar while elegantly highlighting the warm maple notes.
THE VIBE: Deeply festive, highly energetic weekend mornings. This is the wildly impressive project you execute for a loud, dramatically indulgent coastal brunch party, served directly from the hot oil to the sun-drenched patio, demanding an atmosphere of incredibly relaxed, deeply authentic, and fiercely unpretentious celebration.

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Something Fresh Alongside: Pumpkin Spice Yogurt with Granola & Berries

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Glazed Donuts with Sprinkles

Glazed Donuts with Sprinkles

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