Doughnuts

DOUGHNUTS

Preparation Time :30 mins Cooking Time :for frying
Milk ½ cup (75ml)
Maida 2 ½ cups (250g)
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Powdered Sugar ½ cup (50g)
Egg 1, lightly beaten
Butter ½ cup (60g)
Vanilla Essence ¼ tsp





Mix together

Cinnamon Powder ½ tsp
Powdered Sugar 1 tbsp



Method
1. Sift maida, baking powder and powdered sugar together.
2. Add beaten egg, milk, butter and vanilla essence into the maida mixture and make into a soft dough.
3. Put the dough into the fridge for 15 minutes.
4. Roll out the dough to ¼ to ½ “ thickness and cut with a doughnut cutter.
5. Deep fry the doughnuts on medium flame till golden brown.
6. Roll the hot doughnuts in the cinnamon and sugar mixture and serve.

Comments

  1. Vidya13 July 2011 at 11:47

    Cool ... nice to see you blogging abt ur cooking :) Looking fwd to doing this one :) Ha ha ... ok will not hold you resp for my wt gain ...

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  2. Pallavi13 July 2011 at 13:24

    following ur advice...thanks :)

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  3. lubna13 August 2011 at 00:14

    will try this out soon...and will let u know how it turned out to be.....

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