Easy Saturday Morning Brioche Donuts
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Serves: makes about 2 dozen
 
I am listing the recipe here for what I use - so the dough is actually cut in half from what I typically make but I also have a bunch of dough left to make cinnamon rolls later in the week
Ingredients

  • FOR THE DOUGH
  • ¾ cup luke warm water
  • ¾ tablespoon yeast
  • ¾ tablespoon kosher salt
  • 4 eggs, lightly beaten
  • ¼ cup honey
  • ¾ cup (1½ stcks) melted butter
  • 3¾ cups all purpose flour (I often use half soft white whole wheat)
    FOR MAKING THE DONUTS
  • oil or lard for frying
  • 1 stick melted butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cinnamon
Preparation Instructions
  1. The night before or several days before you want these donuts, throw all the dough ingredients into a bowl or tub, stir them up, cover loosely and let sit at room temperature for about 2 hours.
  2. Move the dough to a cool area, like the fridge, until ready to use.
  3. When you are ready to eat donuts, for example on a Saturday morning, grab your dough. Roll it out on a lightly floured surface to about ¼" thick.
  4. The easiest way to cut it is to use a pizza wheel but a knife will work as well if you don't have a pizza wheel. Cut the dough into strips about 1" wide, maybe a little less.
  5. Grab a strip in the middle and twist until you have a rope of twisted dough. Set aside on a lightly floured surface and repeat until you have twisted all the strips (you can start heating the lard/oil NOW if you want save even more time but you do get skinnier donuts since they wont have as much time to rise - hence my skinny donuts pictured above. I have no patience).
  6. Once they are all twisted, start heating your oil or lard. I use lard personally and it's delicious, but you use what you are comfortable with or have. Heat to about 350˚.
  7. Once the lard is hot, add a few donuts. You don't want to crowd the pot because if you don't the donuts will actually flip themselves and you don't have to do anything - which is awesome.
  8. Once they are a deep golden brown, remove them and allow them to cool on a plate while you get the next batch frying.
  9. Once the next batch is in the pot, brush the cooked ones with melted butter and then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and set aside and keep repeating the assembly line until they are all fried, buttered and sugared.
  10. Most likely by the time this is all done your family will have eaten their fill and you will get whatever is left.
  11. Sit, have a cup of coffee and a donut.
Recipe by Foods of Our Lives at https://www.foodsofourlives.com/2014/04/easy-saturday-morning-brioche-donuts/