Doughnut. Donut. Does not matter. We love fried yeast donuts in this house. Especially the ones with a good sticky glaze that adheres to our fingers and faces. And the apple fritter, Family, is the reigning Monarch of donuts in our house.
We are a donut family.
My children ask for donuts almost every weekend, but I constantly avoid making them because they're always gone in sixty seconds when I do make them. My mom guilt won't allow me to make them on a regular basis.
This past Sunday, I decided to surprise them with donuts. ...
One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is to make bread. There's something just so satisfying about taking flour, water, salt and yeast and making the most scrumptious artisan bread, or achieving the perfect, tacky-but-not-sticky texture for apple fritter dough.
In my home bakery, I'm most at peace than when my apron's covered in flour and I'm kneading bread by hand. Something about the repetitiveness of the motion, the fresh, yeasty smell, the smooth firmness of a shaped boule before its final rise...just gets to me. I swear that time slows down...
