Yum Yums - British doughnuts
These funny named dughnuts are a cross between a croissant and a dougnuts. Supposedly, they are the fastest selling treat in the Gregg's bakery. Now you can try making your own at home :) I used James Morton's recipe but added vodka to keep the oil from soaking the doughnuts too much.
Ingredients
500g stong white bread flour
14g easy bake instant yeast
30g sugar
a teaspoon of sugar
250g lukewarm water
1 medium egg
100g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons of vodka or white distilled vinegar
for the icing:
250g icing sugar
60ml water
oil for frying
a thermometer (similar here)
Instructions
- in a large bowl sift together the flour, salt, yeast and sugar
- mix with a spoon
- dice the chilled butter into thin slices and add to the dry ingredients
- with your hand, rub in the butter to the dry ingredients
- add the water, vodka/vinegar and egg, and knead until the dough comes together
- cover and leave to rise for around one hour
- take out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll out into a larhe recatngle (around 58 x 28 cm)
- fold in the edges to the middle of the rectangle, so that the edges touch in the middle
- fold again as if you were closing a book - repeat this step five times
- cover the folded dough and leave to rise for around 1.5 hours
- roll out the dough one more time and cut into 2cm strips
- twist two strips together (like a rope)
- cover and leave to rise until doubled in size, around half an hour
- in a large pan, heat the oil to 160 C
- fry the yum yums on each side untill golden in colour
- mix the icing sugar with water and cover each yum yum generously
Enjoy :)
