Cake donuts

This pic shows just a little amount of the half hundred donuts I made this weekend for some parties XD I took this recipe from an italian book, Piccola Collana Dolce.

With this recipe, you'll make 10 mega donuts, or 15 of medium size.

INGREDIENTS

2 eggs

160gr regular white sugar

550gr plain flour  (a bit more to roll out the dough)

 3 teaspoons baking powder

2 pinches of salt

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

120ml milk

40gr unsalted butter

peanut oil to fry

METHOD
In a big bowl, beat the eggs with sugar.

In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.
Melt the butter and add the milk, stir.
A bit at a time, add the dry ingredients and the liquid ones to the egg and the sugar. Mix with the electric beater and then knead.

Cover the dough with a rag and let it rest for about 1 hour.
Using some flour, roll out the dough maintaining a half centimeter thickness.
Cut some discs with a hole in the centre: I simply cut the external circle with a glass, and the internal one with a bottle top.
Move the discs in a flat surface with flour, cover with the rag and let them rest for 15 minutes.

Heat the oil in the fryer to 190° and fry the donuts for 2-3 minutes, they will puff up.
Remove them with a perforated spoon and lay them down on paper towel.
The recipe for the frosting is in the next post.

Isa