[Guest Post] Homemade Doughnuts with Chocolate Coating by Dina-Marie

One of our family favorite delicacies is homemade doughnuts. You can not go wrong with them. Whether you glaze them, fill them with creme, use an icing, or eat them plain, they please everyone.

They are:

• fun to mix up
• fun to roll out
• fun to cut out
• fun to cook
• fun to eat

They are just a FUN food! They are a must for everyone to try! The following recipe reportedly makes about 2 dozen doughnuts. I am not sure about that because we triple and sometimes even quadruple it! And now, for the recipe ...

Homemade Doughnuts

1 qt milk warmed

10 Tbs sugar
8 Tbs oil
1 Tbs salt
1/8 tsp nutmeg (opt. more or less to taste)
7 Tbs dry yeast
4 c all purpose flour
4 c whole wheat flour

Preheat deep fryer.

Pour milk into the bowl of your mixer. Add sugar, oil, salt and nutmeg. Add yeast last (the other ingredients help cool the milk so it does not kill your yeast).

Add the whole wheat and all purpose flour and knead until well blended and dough does not stick to the sides of the bowl.

Place on oiled surface and prepare to roll the dough out to 1/2 inch thickness. You do not need much oil, just keep the dough from sticking. We place oil on our stone dining table. This makes easy access for all the little helpers.

Roll dough out to 1/2 inch thickness and cut out. See what I mean about the little helpers!

We use a plastic glass for the large round and a smaller container for the holes. Just use whatever works!

Deep fry in oil at 375F. We use a deep fryer so I don't have to worry about the temperature - the fryer does that for me. The doughnuts will float, so, after a couple of minutes, turn them to cook the other side. You want a nice golden brown.

We use a utensil such as a plastic cooking fork - not the small white plastic ones!

Drain on paper towel. That is what the recipe says anyway, but we use a clean towel on a cookie sheet (emphasis on clean!). Use the icing or glaze desired. We dip the hot doughnuts into a warm chocolate icing allowing it to drip and then place on a platter. Unless of course, a quality control test must be done and then it ends up in a mouth. It is definitely a family affair!

Then again, who needs a doughnut to dip - fingers work great!

Mmmm! There is nothing like a freshly dipped finger!

Bio: Dina-Marie has 10 children and blogs at Dimes2Vines.com. She lives in west Texas and enjoys working with her family in the vineyard, blogging about their life experiences and their lifestyle change from the corporate world to farm life.