How to Cook Perfect Homemade Donut

Homemade Donut.

You can cook Homemade Donut using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Donut

1. It's 2 tbsp of dry yeast.
2. Prepare 2 cups of milk.
3. You need 1/2 cup of shortening room temp.
4. It's 2 tsp of salt.
5. It's 2/3 cup of sugar.
6. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
7. It's 4 of eggs.
8. You need 6 1/2-7 1/2 cups of flour.
9. You need 2 cups of chocolate for glazing.

Homemade Donut step by step

1. Dissolve yeast in ¾ cup luke-warm water. Set aside..
2. Heat 2 cups milk in microwave for 2-3 minutes..
3. While milk is heating add shortening to a large bowl. Pour hot milk over it and whisk until mixed. Add salt, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Add 4 eggs and mix well..
4. Add yeast mixture to batter and mix. Add 2 cups of flour and mix with a wooden spoon. Mix well. Add 2 more cups and mix. Add 2 more cups and mix. At this point, the batter should not be runny. Add 1 more cup of flour, give or take ½ cup..
5. Sprinkle flour onto a clean surface and pour batter onto it. Gently knead dough batter until the surface is not sticky to the touch. Place the soft dough into a lightly greased bowl. Cover the bowl and let rise for 1 to 1½ hours. Dough should be about double in size when done..
6. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out to about a 1 inch thickness. Cut the doughnuts out as closely as possible. You can save the middles for doughnut holes. Move donuts and holes to a clean surface..
7. Cover and let rise for 1 to 1½ hours..
8. Once the donuts and holes are done rising, fry them in a large frying pan with vegetable oil until golden brown..
9. While donuts are frying make your Glaze. To make glaze mix 7 cups powdered sugar with ⅔ cup water, chocolate 2 cups and 2 tsp. vanilla. Add donuts to glaze as soon as they are done frying and make sure both sides are covered. Place on a plate to let excess glaze drain..