Glazed Applesauce Donut Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is the secret for soft doughnuts? ›

There's only one way to make doughnuts even softer and fluffier and that is by scalding some of the flour. Scalding is a technique used to not only make bread softer, but also to make it stay soft for longer. You can use it for pretty much any recipe you like.

Take a square piece of foil and place it over one of your fingers. It needs to be large enough to cover the bottom of each cup in the muffin tin. A 5″×5″ square seemed to work best for me. Fold the foil around your finger, gently folding the sides up, to create a mold.

Don't crowd the pan

Cooking only two to four donuts at a time will keep the oil temp from dropping too far during cooking. If you put six donuts in at once, there's a good chance your oil temp will plummet, and you'll get greasy, soggy donuts.

Sometimes, a homemade glaze winds up far too thin and runny for your donut. To combat this texture, all you have to do is incorporate a little bit more of one-star ingredient. Namely, powdered sugar is the key to thickening any donut glaze.

What is the secret to Krispy Kreme Donuts? The secret to Krispy Kreme doughnuts is of course the sweet glaze, and this is achieved by bathing the doughnuts in a glaze of icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk, for a thicker glaze increase the quantity of icing sugar by a few spoons.

A batch of original glazed starts with Krispy Kreme doughnut mix, water and yeast, the same single-cell fungi used to make bread rise. The yeast is what makes the original glazed so light -- it puffs the dough up with air, so it's not dense like a cake doughnut (more on this later).

Canola oil specifically is the one of the best choices because it has a light color, mild flavor and a high smoke point making it ideal for frying donuts.

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.

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.

Ordinary yeasted donuts should probably rise until almost doubled if you want to bake them the next day. They'll be fine overnight, but not longer. Sourdough donuts will need a few stretch and folds over about 90 minutes, then a brief rise, but I've left those in the fridge for a full day with no problem.

What is the best pan to fry donuts in? ›

Cast-iron pans are ovenproof, so you can use them to roast meats like beef or pork and to bake cornbread, deep-dish pizza, shepherd's pie, and more. And they retain heat so well that they're a good choice for deep-frying chicken, doughnuts, or other foods because they keep the oil at a constant temperature.

A BASE GLAZE is a mixture of these three basic groups: SILICA, FLUX AND ALUMINA.

Avoid over-mixing your dough

While some gluten development is good (it adds structure to the donut), too much gluten development may cause the dough to come out stodgy. If you're making cake donuts, you should only mix the dough enough so that all the ingredients are combined; there shouldn't be any dry spots of flour.

Transparent colored glazes will fire the wrong shade if not the right thickness. Transparent glazes applied too thickly will often cloud, obscuring underglaze decoration. Heavily opacified zircon glazes have reduced melt mobility and if applied too thickly will crawl on abrupt concave contours.

Use buttermilk: Buttermilk helps to tenderize the dough and add moisture. Add eggs: Eggs add richness and moisture to the dough. Add oil: Oil helps to keep the donuts moist.

Yeast-raised: Krispy Kreme donuts are yeast-raised, which gives them a softer and fluffier texture compared to cake donuts, which are denser.

The secret ingredient, mashed potato, gives the donuts moistness and tenderness. It's rumored potato is in the secret Krispy Kreme recipe too! The first Krispy Kreme shop was opened in 1937 in North Carolina by Vernon Rudolph, who used his uncle's yeast-raised donut recipe.

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.