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🍽️ Fluffy Yeast Doughnuts

582 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cube yeast
• 170 ml milk
• 500 g flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 40 g sugar
• 60 g butter
• salt
• 0.5 vanilla pod (seeds)
• 1 l frying oil
• 300 g apricot jam
• powdered sugar (for dusting)

Instructions

1. 1. Warm up 100 milliliters of milk.
2. 2. Crumble the yeast into the warm milk.
3. 3. Stir the yeast into the milk until it has completely dissolved.
4. 4. Stir 150 grams of flour into the milk-yeast mixture.
5. 5. Lightly dust the resulting pre-dough with flour.
6. 6. Cover the pre-dough.
7. 7. Let the pre-dough rise in a warm place for 20 minutes.
8. 8. Whisk the eggs, the egg yolk, and the sugar with a hand mixer.
9. 9. Knead the remaining pre-dough, the rest of the milk, the rest of the flour, and the egg-sugar mixture into a smooth dough.
10. 10. Work the butter, a pinch of salt, and the seeds from one vanilla pod into the dough.
11. 11. Cover the finished dough.
12. 12. Let the dough rise at room temperature for 30 minutes.
13. 13. Scoop out 20 small portions of dough with a tablespoon.
14. 14. Shape the dough portions into round balls.
15. 15. Place the balls on a cloth lightly dusted with flour.
16. 16. Press the balls down slightly with the palm of your hand.
17. 17. Cover the balls with the cloth.
18. 18. Let the balls rise again until they have gained significant volume.
19. 19. Heat the frying oil to 170 degrees Celsius.
20. 20. Fry the doughnuts in batches for 2 minutes each.
21. 21. Turn the doughnuts.
22. 22. Fry the doughnuts for another 2 minutes.
23. 23. Place the finished doughnuts on kitchen paper.
24. 24. Let the kitchen paper absorb the excess oil.
25. 25. Pierce the doughnuts with a piping bag and a long, fine nozzle.
26. 26. Fill the doughnuts immediately with apricot jam.
27. 27. Dust the doughnuts with powdered sugar.
28. 28. Serve the doughnuts.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 582
• Protein: 5 g · Fett/Fat: 49 g · Carbs: 31 g