Oven Baked Donuts

Well, I have always thought of making oven baked donuts instead of eathe ing the deep fried ones and that they are more healthy and less calories and fat. And when a friend of mine give me a recipe and asked me to try it, I decided to modified it and came up with the below recipe and the photograph is the donuts that I have make.

I double the portion below and created 2 dozens of mini double chocolate donuts and 2 dozens of mini vanilla flavour donuts dipped in chocolate. And part of them became one of the two dishes that I brought to my friend's house of Thanksgiving dinner.

And I am going to share the rest with my neighbours.




Ingredients:
1 packages dry yeast
45 ml warm water
170 ml milk
90 ml oil
1/6 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla
(For double chocolate, just add 4 tbsp of Dutch Cocoa powder into the flour and sift together.)

Methods:
1. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a cup and let it stand for 15 minutes.

2. Put the milk and oil in a big bowl for mixing.

3. Preheat oven to 400F.

4. Pour the yeast mixture into a large mixing bowl to mix with the milk and oil. Sift in the sugar, salt, nutmeg, egg and 1 cup flour. Beat briskly until well blended. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cups flour and beat until smooth. Cover the bowl and let double in bulk, about 1 hour in the oven with the light turned on.

5. Turn the dough onot a board generously dust with flour.Knead the dough a little as it is very soft dough. Pat the dough into a round about 1/2 inch thick. Use a doughnut cutter and cut out the doughnuts. Placing the on greased baking sheets, 1 inch apart.

6. Let the doughnuts rest and rise for 20 minutes uncovered. Bake about 10 minutes or a little longer, until they have a touch of golden brown. Remove from the oven.

7. Dip the donut half into the ready melting chocolate and let it rest.

8. When the chocolate is harden on the donut, can serve it with hot tea, coffee or chocolate beverages.