Donuts or Doughnuts

There has been some donuts craze here in singapore the past months. Me having join up the crazy 2 hours queue in Raffles City for them. lolz.... ok..that's just once.

Anyway, whenever I'm have my sugar crave, a sugary donut would do nicely to satisfy my craving. Hee~ But I would feel sinful each time after having one cause being how nice they are, these sweet treats are deep fried and coated with loads of sugar!! lolz...Who's counting the calories?

So I decided to make a baked version of it. I saw these wonderful milk rolls at Gattina . I changed the shortening to butter as I can't digest the idea of taking in trans fat. *wink*

The dough was really soft and sticky despite adding generous amount of flour. And it stick to my cutter each time. After much struggle, I sent my ugly shaped donuts into the oven.

I cooked some cinnamon apple filling for the donuts, while some are covered with cinnamon sugar and a few frosted with nutella!!

The texture was rather disappointing. But what am I looking for in a baked donut right?

Baked Donuts (courtesy of Gattina)

2 1/4 tsps dry yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
3/4 cup milk
2 1/2 Tbps unsalted butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg
2 1/4 cups plan flour.

Melted butter as glazing; and some cinnamon sugar

Directions

-melt the butter with milk, cool to lukewarm temperature
-Dissolve the yeast with the water for 5 minutes
-In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt, egg, yeast water and milk mixture, stir briskly till well blended. The dough is very wet and lumpy, like cake's batter.
-Cover the bowl with clingwrap and rest dough for an hour or double its volume in room temperature.
-Spread (a big area) quite a lot of flour on the work table, pour in the dough... you need to keep dusting your hands with flour as the dough is very sticky... pat (don't knead!) it into 1/2-inch-thick big round dough.
-Use a 3-inch-diameter cookie cutter/water glass to cut the dough, and place them on a slightly buttered baking tray.
-Pre-heat the oven 220oC while resting the rolls (covered) for 20 minutes.
Bake the rolls 8-10 minutes or they JUST turn slightly brown.
Immediately brush the melted butter on the rolls, and sprinkle with some cinnamon sugar. Served warm.