a doughnutty day

Baked Doughnuts!

1 1/3 cups warm milk
1 packet active dry yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
5 cups all-purpose flour
A pinch or two of cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Place 1/3 cup of the warm milk in the bowl of an electric mixer. Stir in the yeast and set aside for five minutes or so. Be sure your milk isn't too hot or it will kill the yeast. Stir the butter and sugar into the remaining cup of warm milk and add it to the yeast mixture. With a fork, stir in the eggs, flour, cinnamon, and salt - just until the flour is incorporated. With the dough hook attachment of your mixer beat the dough for a few minutes at medium speed.

 This is where you are going to need to make adjustments - if your dough is overly sticky, add flour a few tablespoons at a time. Too dry? Add more milk a bit at a time. You want the dough to pull away from the sides of the mixing bowl and eventually become supple and smooth. Turn it out onto a floured counter-top, knead a few times (the dough should be barely sticky), and shape into a ball.
Transfer the dough to a buttered (or oiled) bowl, cover, put in a warm place (I turn on the oven at this point and set the bowl on top), and let rise for an hour or until the dough has roughly doubled in size.
Punch down the dough and roll it out 1/2-inch thick on your floured counter top. Cut out doughnuts, cover with a clean cloth and let rise for another 45 minutes.

Bake in a 375 degree oven until the bottoms are just golden, 8 to 10 minutes - start checking around 8. While the doughnuts are baking, place the butter in a medium bowl. Place the sugar and cinnamon in a separate bowl.
Remove the doughnuts from the oven and let cool for just a minute. Dip or brush each one in the melted butter and a quick toss in the sugar bowl. Eat immediately if not sooner.

These were utterly amazing! I can't believe how well they turned out and I can't wait to make them again!

Today has been such a good day, I managed to clean out the kitchen drawers, I now have 2 empty ones!! I also cleaned out the cabinets in out laundry room so I now have a place to keep my sewing materials and my sewing basket :) happy me, and to make it all better my kid's were invited to go play next door! yay!!

These are my favourite mixing bowls! The big yellow one and the little blue one are an inheritance from my amazing and wonderful grandma Marion who passed away in May and the green is from a local antique shop. Come to find out however there is also a red one in this vintage set that I have been scouring antique stores for and have yet to find...hmm.. and now that I know there is a red size between the green and blue size it seems the perfect size bowl for so many things I have made recently. I am optimistic one will present itself to me at the perfect moment.

This set of measuring spoons were also among my inheritance they are so useful and handy because I'm able to grab one (when I actually measure instead of guess) because of the handy dandy hanger! I love useful vintage things! Especially when they are the things I used repeatedly as a child.

Thanks so much for everything grandma, I love you!