Glazed Spudnut (Style) Donuts

For those people who are onetime plenty to know what a Spudnut is...this recipe volition live a treat. For those of yous also immature to recall Spudnuts...let's merely nation that they were the best donut inwards the universe. I heard that at that spot are silent a few Spudnut shops around, but it appears that they are few together with far between.

This recipe (from the Idaho Potato Commission) makes a LOT of Spudnut-style donuts (about four dozen) hence yous powerfulness desire to one-half the recipe if yous determine to brand them. If yous are non experienced alongside yeast doughs, I don't recommend trying this recipe, however, if yous cause got had fifty-fifty moderate success alongside yeast doughs, I promise yous compass the recipe a endeavor (it is non a difficult recipe at all).

The donuts are rattling moist, sugariness together with cause got merely a HINT of lemon. My married adult man is a donut (and Spudnut) connoisseur from agency back, together with he gave these donuts ii thumbs up!!

 

 2 pkgs. dry out yeast
1/2 loving cup warm water
1 loving cup sugar
3/4 loving cup shortening (do non exercise butter)
1 & 1/2 cups mutual frigidness instant mashed potatoes
3 eggs good beaten
2 cups scalded milk (cooled to luke warm)
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon lemon extract
6 to 8 cups all role flour

Dissolve the yeast inwards the warm H2O together with laid aside. Cream the carbohydrate together with shortening together with compaction inwards the mutual frigidness potatoes, eggs, cooled milk, yeast water, tabular array salt together with lemon extract. Gradually add together the flour to brand a soft dough, knead well. The dough volition live quite sticky, but holds together well. It should live a softer dough than breadstuff dough.


 Cover dough alongside plastic together with allow it enhance inwards a warm house until doubled inwards size (this takes a huge bowl together with most an hour). After an hour, clit dough out of bowl together with onto the counter. Sprinkle alongside flour together with knead it a trivial to teach most of the air out of it. If dough seems actually sticky, merely flour your board. Roll the dough out to a one-half inch thickness. Cut alongside well-floured cutter.


Spray a slice of parchment newspaper (or waxed paper) alongside a trivial vegetable spray together with hence wipe it downward alongside a newspaper towel. Cut the newspaper into squares together with position a cutting out donut on each square. This volition aid yous when it is fourth dimension to transfer the raised donuts from the counter to the hot crude (see notes).

 Let the doughnuts enhance until they teach prissy together with puffy, then

deep nipper the donuts inwards 375 marking vegetable crude until they are deep golden (mine took most 2 minutes a side). Only nipper ii or 3 donuts at a time.
Drain on newspaper towels. Glaze piece silent warm

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GLAZE

1 pound of sifted powdered sugar

1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

Whisk inwards plenty boiling H2O to brand a sparse glaze, drizzle over donuts.

And don't forget the donut holes!!!

NOTE: Recipe calls for shortening, I used butter flavored Crisco.

NOTE: Recipe calls for prepared instant potatoes. I prepared my potatoes per the box instructions including water, milk, butter together with salt.

NOTE: Recipe calls for a tablespoon of lemon extract. That sounds similar a lot, but it leaves merely a tiny HINT of lemon flavour inwards the concluding product.

NOTE: Recipe calls for 6-8 cups of flour. I used all 8 cups together with it was no where close every bit "solid" every bit breadstuff dough, hence hold off a gluey dough.

NOTE: I allow my donuts enhance on squares of sprayed parchment paper. If yous practice that, hence yous tin dismiss alternative upwards the donut without deforming or deflating it together with gently plough it over inwards your paw together with gently pare off the newspaper earlier yous repose the donut into the hot oil.

NOTE: I cause got a 2" donut cutter, but it merely seemed to brand a rattling tiny donut, hence I cutting the bottom together with exceed out of a pineapple tin dismiss together with used that every bit my cutter. I cutting out the centre of the donut alongside a tiny cookie cutter.
NOTE: I used my smallest electrical frying pan alongside 3" of vegetable crude to nipper these donuts. The electrical nipper pan allows yous to easily accommodate the crude to 375 degrees together with since yous should solely nipper ii or 3 donuts at a time, the smaller electrical nipper pan makes sense.