Slowly add in the plain flour, adding it in a bit at a time and whisk into a soft dough.
300 g Plain flour
You will need to rub a little flour to your hands and add a small amount of flour to a clean surface.
Knead the donut dough for a minute and turn it into a dough ball.
Return your dough ball back into the Pyrex bowl and cover for about 20 minutes.
The dough will become bigger in size in this time. To test if your dough is ready poke a few times lightly with your finger, if the dough tries to ping back its ready to be rolled.
Flour a clean surface and rolling pin and roll out your dough so its about 1cm think, if you don’t have a donut cutter use two different size cutters. (you can use a cap from a drinks bottle, it’s the perfect size for the donut holes)
Heat your oil to 170 degrees
1 Oil
While the oil is heating up leave your donuts to raise again.
When the oil is heated up lower in your donuts carefully into the hot oil.
Do your donuts in batches of two or three at a time depending on the size of you fryer.
The donuts take about 1 minute each side, when one side is done turn over and fry the other side.
When golden brown remove the donuts from the oil and place onto a plate with a couple of squares of kitchen roll, this will help soak up any excess oil.
Place donuts onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
To make the glaze.
Into a bowl add in the whole milk, sifted powdered sugar and vanilla essence and mix really well.
When the donuts have cooled dip each donut into the glaze making sure to cover the sides.
When the first layer of glaze has set grab yourself a teaspoon and drizzle lines back and forth over each donut creating lines across each one. Now wait for them to set for a second time. Then serve and enjoy.
Notes
Tips and TricksKeep your donut dough in a warm place while its rising, if the room is cold it will take a lot longer to rise.Flour your hands before kneading the donut dough, this will stop your fingers from getting sticky.If you don’t have a donut cutter use two different size cutters. (you can use a cap from a drinks bottle, it’s the perfect size for the donut holes)