These lovely little Apple Fritters from The Craft of Baking by Karen DeMasco are deliciously mischievous. When they emerge from the frying oil and are dipped in cinnamon sugar, they look like little doughnuts but one bite reveals they are...
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Yesterday was not a good day. It was one of those days when nothing went right and anyone in their right mind having this kind of day would have avoided multi-step baking projects. But something possessed me to try these...
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[Flickr; edwardkimuk] Making doughnuts at home is exciting and prepping the batter is actually a pretty mundane affair—just some measuring, sifting, whisking, and folding. But the real thrill comes in the second the batter hits the hot oil. The...
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There is nothing like a homemade donut. When I was a little girl, my grandmother would make beignets, French donuts, and cover them in warm honey. Donuts are traditional on Hanukkah, and are classically filled with jelly. In the...
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Amy Scherber has seen countless food trends come and go since she first launched Amy's Bread in 1992. The low-fat craze of the mid '90s was one of the most obsessive (customers used to ask about the fat content of...
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-Adapted from Baking Illustrated, from the editors of Cook's Illustrated - Ingredients 3-3 1/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour 1 envelope or 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast 6 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoons salt 2/3 cups whole milk, at room temp...
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If you were upset with my inclusion of apple fritters in this series of Nancy Silverton doughnut recipes, then I'll return to "true" doughnut form with this recipe, which makes raised doughnuts, twists, or holes....
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I know that some of you will grouse and tell me that an apple fritter is not a doughnut. And, you're probably right. But, because it's sold in doughnut shops everywhere, I'm including this recipe....
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And here's the first of that handful of recipes I just told you about. It's for an old-fashioned buttermilk cake doughnut. Cake doughnuts are different from yeast-raised doughnuts in that they get their lift from baking soda and baking powder....
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My friend Nancy Silverton is one of the greatest pastry chefs and bread bakers this country has ever produced. So when she gives a recipe for doughnuts, I'm sure to dog-ear the page it's on. She kindly allowed Serious Eats...
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