• Servings

  18 doughnuts

• Prepration Time

  25 mins

• Cook Time

  3 mins

INGREDIENTS

• 125 ml milk (½ cup)
• 15 g butter
• 300 g plain flour (2⅔ cups)
• 1 ½ tsp instant yeast
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 Lt vegetable oil for deep-frying
• caster sugar for rolling
• Apricot Jam for Filling
• 1 kg apricots
• 1 kg caster sugar (4½ cups)
• 1 lemon juice
• Nutella for filling

METHOD

• Melt butter in milk in a microwave safe bowl on high in a microwave for 1 minute. Set aside.
• Combine flour, yeast, salt and sugar in a bowl.
• Beat the egg into the milk mixture then pour over the dry ingredients and mix.
• When combined, knead by hand for 10 minutes until soft and silky. Add a little more flour if needed.
• Place in an oiled mixing bowl, cover and keep in a warm spot for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
• Punch the dough down and knead again, cut in half and roll out two long 30 cm sausages then cut into eight slices, finally roll into little balls. Place each ball onto a tray and allow resting for 20 minutes.
• Heat oil in a deep heavy based saucepan to 180C or deep fryer, carefully place doughnuts into the oil, cooking 4 - 6 at a time, turning with a spatula so they become evenly golden and puffed (2 – 3 mins).
• Drain on absorbent paper towel, then roll in sugar and pipe a teaspoon of apricot jam into half the doughnuts and Nutella into the other half.