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Learn how to make perfect homemade jelly doughnuts with detailed instructions. Make them more delicious by topping them with fudge frosting and strawberries
Ingredients
- Doughnuts:
- 2½ cups flour + additional flour for kneading
- ½ cup whole milk (100-110 degrees)
- ⅓ cup + 1 tsp sugar
- 3 large egg yolks
- 2½ tsp active dry yeast
- 2 tbsp salted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3½ cups oil for frying
- Filling:
- 3 cups homemade strawberry jam or store-bought strawberry jam
- Topping:
- 3 cups granulated sugar (for rolling the doughnuts)
- 2 cups coconut cream chocolate frosting
- 2 cups sliced strawberries (blotted dry)
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add 1 tsp sugar, yeast and milk. Keep this mixture aside for about 15 minutes until it becomes foamy.
- In a deep mixing bowl, add flour, sugar, egg yolks, butter, vanilla extract and yeast mixture. Mix everything with a thick plastic spoon until you have a sticky mixture.
- Dump this mixture onto your floured countertop and start kneading until you form a dough ball that's not sticky any more (takes about 10-15 minutes). I had to add some additional flour at this point to help with all that kneading. The dough should eventually bounce back when poked with a finger.
- Oil a bowl and place this dough ball in it. Cover with saran wrap and keep it in a warm area and allow the dough to rise for 1½ hours. (I keep the bowl inside my oven- Don't turn it on though!)
- Now, flour your countertop again and roll out the dough at a thickness of ¼ inches. Use a round cutter to cut out circular pieces.
- Cover these circles with saran wrap and allow them to rise for about 15 minutes.
- Heat oil in a saucepan until the temperature reaches 370 degrees.
- Add 3-4 the circle pieces into the oil very carefully and fry them on both sides until they are golden (about 40 seconds on each side).
- Use a slotted spoon to remove the doughnuts from the oil and place them on a tray lined with paper towels.
- Then quickly roll the doughnuts in sugar while they are still warm.
- Now, attach the round tip to a piping bag and fill it with strawberry jam.
- On the side of the doughnut, make 2 holes with a wooden skewer about 1 inch apart. Push your piping bag into the holes and fill the inside of the doughnut with jam. Do this for all the doughnuts.
- When the doughnuts have cooled down, spread fudgy coconut cream chocolate frosting on top of them and place a few sliced strawberries on top.
- And you are done!
