Doughnut Holes
Recipe: #28557
November 01, 2017
Categories: Snacks, Baby Shower, Christmas, Halloween, Deep Fry, Vegetarian, Flour, Chocolate, Kosher Dairy, more
"Makes 36 doughnut holes or 12 doughnuts and 12 doughnut holes"
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (33.7 g)
- Calories 94.5
- Total Fat - 2 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.2 g
- Cholesterol - 9.9 mg
- Sodium - 89.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 19 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1 g
- Sugars - 12.9 g
- Protein - 1.5 g
- Calcium - 41.5 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, salt, and espresso powder (if using) and make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Pour this wet mixture into the well and mix just until a soft dough forms. Cover your bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
Step 2
Remove the dough from the fridge and heat about 2 inches of vegetable oil in a large, deep pot over medium heat until a thermometer registers at 350F. On a generously floured work surface, roll out your chilled dough to a 1/2-inch thickness and, using a 1-inch round cutter, cut out your doughnut holes.
Step 3
Feel free to bring the remaining dough together to reroll and cut out more doughnut holes but only do this once as rerolling the dough a third time might make them a bit tough.
Step 4
Before frying, prepare a draining station for your doughnut holes by lining a cookie sheet with paper towel and a cooling rack.
Step 5
Now, it’s time to fry! Gently lower seven or eight doughnut holes into the hot oil and cook for around 3-4 minutes, flipping occasionally. Remove the cooked doughnut holes to the rack-lined cookie sheet and continue to fry until all of your doughnut holes are done.
Step 6
When cooled, dunk each doughnut and doughnut hole in vanilla glaze and serve.
TO MAKE THE GLAZE
Step 7
In a small bowl, mix the icing sugar with the vanilla and warm water until smooth. If the glaze looks too thin, add a bit more icing sugar. If it looks too thick, add a touch more water.
Tips
No special items needed.