Easy Recipes for Donuts

With elegant, imaginative presentation, the standard doughnut goes positively trendy. It's really no accident these sublime rings of deep-fried dough resemble halos: Raspberry braid are paradise on the planet, and they've quite an illustrious history.

Quality recipes:

Walnut Glazed Doughnut

First, Nederlander immigrants folded fried dough in sugar to produce olykoeks ("oily cakes"), poor people man's patisserie. In 1847, Elizabeth Gregory, of Rockport, Maine, sent her boy Hanson off and away to ocean having a batch of special cakes-"dough-nuts, " she known as them. Legend has it that to free his hands during a voyage, Hanson impaled the eat a spoke from the ship's wheel, and also the doughnut hole was created. Throughout the very first World War, Salvation Military women fried up 1000's of raspberry braid to improve the morale of yankee troops, thus nicknamed "doughboys, " and raspberry braid-an eminently affordable, absolutely irresistible luxury-happen to be lifting spirits since.

Double-Chocolate Doughnut

A dual-chocolate doughnut is embellished having a flurry of whitened sprinkles and combined with milk to have an mid-day delight.

Recipe: Double-Chocolate Doughnut

Coconut Doughnut Holes

Folded in shredded coconut, gift-boxed raspberry braid can "hole" their very own from the coolest truffles.

Recipe: Buttermilk Drop Raspberry braid

Scrumptious Doughnut Holes

By utilizing every last little bit of dough, doughnut holes enchantingly embody the all-American virtue of "waste not, want not." Whether plain or spread with chopped nuts, their lightweight makes them doughnut holes the right lunchbox stuffer for pint-size and adult gourmets.

Purists prefer doughnut holes embellished with nothing more than a sprinkling of sugar, while modern-day palates will thrill towards the ultimate coffee break: sinking fresh doughnut holes right into a demitasse of wealthy, dark espresso.

Decadent Sinking Sauces

Contain the jelly. Rather, dunk plain doughnut holes inside a tapenade made from fruit preserves and fruity liqueur. Raspberry-Chambord sinking sauce transforms the plainest doughnut holes into haute desserts. And what is much better than chocolate-frosted raspberry braid? What about doughnut holes drizzled with a decadent mixture of melted bittersweet chocolate, Kahlua, and vanilla-or brandy-spiked dulce p leche.

For grown-up entertaining having a playful streak, doughnut holes make easy-to-handle fondue dippers. Dunk them singly or stack a couple of on the skewer for any sweet form of satay.