Baked Nutmeg & Cinnamon Donuts

Total Time: 38 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 30
• 5 cups plain all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
• 1 pinch sea salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk, warmed
• 1 (7 g) packet active dry yeast (in australia, most come in 7g packets)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup raw sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 sift flour, nutmeg and seas salt together in a large bowl, or in the bowl of an electric mixer.
• 2 place ½ cup of the milk in another bowl and stir in the yeast. set aside.
• 3 stir in the butter and sugar into the remaining cup of warm milk and add it to the yeast mixture.
• 4 whisk in the eggs using a fork and add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients.
• 5 mix until the flour has taken up the yeast mixture.
• 6 if your dough is too dry add a little bit of milk at a time. if your dough is too sticky, then add a little bit of flour, until the dough becomes smooth enough to handle without sticking too much to your hands.
• 7 turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for two minutes.
• 8 shape into a ball and place into a lightly oiled or buttered bowl. cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise in a warm area away from drafts.
• 9 allow an hour or so for the dough to double i size, depending on the temperature.
• 10 prepare 5 baking trays with parchment paper.
• 11 when the dough has risen, remove the dough from the bowl and punch down. roll it out on a lightly floured surface to about ½-inch thickness.
• 12 using your cutter cut out donuts. cut the outer circle first, then transfer to lined baking trays and then cut out the donut holes (smaller circle)**.
• 13 cover trays with a clean cloth and allow to rise for another 45 minutes.
• 14 preheat your oven to 180ºc.
• 15 bake the donuts for about 8 minutes; do not allow them to get brown.
• 16 while donuts are baking, set up your butter and combine sugar and cinnamon in another bowl.
• 17 remove donuts from oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes.
• 18 dip each donut into the melted butter and give it a quick toss in the cinnamon sugar.
• 19 *make sure not to over heat the milk, the temperature should be just tepid so as not to kill the yeast.
• 20 **ensure that the holes are at least 2cm in diameter as that the holes will close more after rising and baking.