Once your dough is made, let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes. And of course, since these are cake doughnuts, they are leavened with baking powder instead of yeast, which makes them come together fairly quickly and easily. It’s traditional in doughnuts, and adds a little depth without being front-and-center. The cornstarch is the “secret” ingredient in this recipe 😊 Also, add a dash of nutmeg. I made one batch with all all-purpose flour, and they were fine, but too dry and crumbly for me to want to make them again. As I’ve mentioned so many times, cornstarch lightens flour in cakes and cookies, and it does the same thing here. These doughnuts are made with a combination of flour and cornstarch.
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The dough also has a few tablespoons of softened butter and two eggs plus a yolk, just to keep everything really moist and fluffy. Sour cream is traditional, but cream cheese is just…cream cheese! It makes these doughnuts so light (something difficult to achieve with fried dough), but still rich enough to taste like the real deal. These cake doughnuts are made with cream cheese, which keeps them extra soft. Yes, you can have shop-quality doughnuts on your table in less than two hours!Īnd oh, are they ever good. The doughnuts I’ve been making lately are cake doughnuts, so they take 90 minutes start-to-finish, instead of the 3+ hours that the yeast-raised variety can take. You might think I’m insane, but trust me, making your own doughnuts is worth it, if only to say “Hey! I made these doughnuts!” to everyone you meet.
So what’s a woman to do? Make them at home! They work in a pinch (and there have been many pinches), but they leave me underwhelmed. There’s always Dunkin’ Donuts, but their doughnuts just aren’t great. I really love the 7th Avenue Donut Diner in Park Slope (get the Toasted Coconut Doughnut!), but it’s too far from home to be a viable option. I’ve tried to find a good doughnut shop over the last eight years in NYC, but have been mostly unlucky. One of the only things I miss about Texas food (apart from Tex-Mex and great barbecue), is Dale’s Donuts #9. I know the doughnuts weren’t the reason for it, but they sure didn’t hurt 😜 And what did we do with our newfound freedom? Get doughnuts for breakfast, of course! Our little fifteen minute drives were spent chatting about the perfection that is John Cusack and eating chocolate sprinkle twists. When I was a senior in high school, she was a freshman, so I drove us both to school everyday. We always loved each other, but like many siblings, we didn’t really get along for the first sixteen years or so.
He did it because he loved us…and maybe because he wanted a doughnut and knew we’d never stop complaining if we didn’t get some, too.Īnd doughnuts were pivotal in what remains one of the most important relationships in my life, the one with my little sister, Eliot (E3). When my sisters and I were little, my dad would very occasionally drive 45 seconds down the street to Dale’s Donuts #9 and have a dozen fresh doughnuts on the table before we ever got out of bed.
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