How to Make Heart Shaped Donuts Recipe — Sugar & Cloth (2024)

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What are sugar donuts made of? ›

Mix together oil, buttermilk, eggs, sugar, salt, baking powder and vanilla until combined. Stir in flour and continue to mix until smooth. Fill the donut pans up about ¾ of the way. Bake donuts for 15 minutes.

Old-fashioned cake doughnuts were called sometimes called "fry cakes" back then: Doughnuts are made of pieces of raised dough, cut into circular pieces and set to rise. After rising they are dropped into a kettle of hot fat, where they puff up into balls and become brown on the surface.

Old-Fashioned Doughnuts are basically cake doughnuts that have been fried. This gives them a slightly crunchy outer shell, that's usually lacquered with glaze or dusted with sugar. The inside tends to be less dense than the cake of your typical powdered doughnut and less airy than a Krispy Kreme-style glazed.

For regular doughnuts, I use round cutters (as you can see in the photos and video) to get the shapes and sizes I want. You could use a custom doughnut cutter too, but I prefer using 2 cookie/biscuit cutters, since I find them sharper and they cut through the dough cleanly.

To make light and fluffy donuts, make sure that your dough is properly risen by allowing it to rest in a warm place until it doubles in size. Also, avoid overmixing the dough as it can lead to a denser texture. Handling the dough gently and not overworking it will help maintain the desired fluffiness.

Zeppole. These fried doughnuts are of Italian origin. Their texture can either be fluffy or dense, depending on what type of dough they're made with. They're often topped with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.

Youtiao may also be known as a Chinese cruller, Chinese oil stick, Chinese donut [sticks], and fried breadstick, among others.

Soft white-cake donut dipped in strawberry fondant and topped with cereal and white fondant. Categories: All, DONUT AND TIMBITS®

More closely related to cake doughnuts, old-fashioned doughnuts are unique thanks to their addition of sour cream and buttermilk. The sour cream and buttermilk are key ingredients for achieving this vintage recipe's taste and texture.

Don't overmix: Overmixing the dough will make the donuts tough. Let the dough rise: Letting the dough rise will help it to develop flavor and become light and airy.

Are baked or fried donuts better? ›

While many prefer the light and crispy texture of a fried donut, leaving the deep fryer in the cabinet and baking your cake donuts instead makes for healthier, less oily donuts. It's also safer and easier to clean up, given that you don't have to deal with lots of hot oil.

Option c depicts 12 donuts, which make up a dozen.

A solid torus is often simply called a torus. A solid torus is made by rotating a disk (a filled-in circle) around a line. Common objects that have the shape of a solid torus are a doughnut, a bagel and an O-ring.

Using a funky-shaped bowl or container to punch out the dough will make your donuts unique. You could even just cut out different shapes with a butter knife, and if you make a mistake, you can always just reroll the dough and try again. There's also the option of forming the dough into rings using your hands.

Shape Doughnuts: When the dough is ready, punch it down to release the air. Remove dough from the bowl and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out until it is 1/2 inch thick. Using a 3–3.5-inch doughnut cutter, cut into doughnuts.