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Arzhou’s 1st Attempt at Making Donuts
By arzhou | August 21, 2007
Considering all the donut fad going around….. Well I had this pack of donut mix lying around the kitchen for a while, so I decided to put it to good use. I attempted to make my own donuts! I got the donut mix while i was shopping around in Daiso, the instructions were in Japanese. Sad to say I think the donuts were not up to snuff.
The mix
The batter…. the overly wet batter
YES donuts are FRIED
Frying in progress
Melting some nice chocs
The donuts are chocolate coated! To cover up heheh
Lessons Learnt:
- Never… EVER think you can read Japanese instructions…. better confirm with someone who knows
- Watch your liquid level (ie: milk + water) the mixture gets liquid really fast.
Topics: Baking/Cooking | 28 Comments »
August 21st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
tsk tsk, arzhou. you should have asked me for the instructions=P
if i help you translate them, will i get donuts with white toppings (to match my name)????
August 21st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
errr what kind of white toppings?
August 21st, 2007 at 10:23 pm
frose is it? or whatever that sugar coating is called…
August 21st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
err my dear your batter seems to be more suited to pancakes – not doughnuts. Doughnuts as the name suggests that there is a dough to start with. That means you roll out the dough and then cut it – let it rest then fry it.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
chillycraps: icing sugar lah. tsk tsk. looks like u not the baking type.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:27 pm
err as the name suggests you would have a DOUGH to start with. Your mixture seems more like for pancakes. I normally don’t trust these pre-mixes. email me and I’ll send u how to do an easy doughnut. Don’t heat up chocolate like that – use a microwave – that way it doesn’t chao-tar.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
tastewise, how was it?
August 21st, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I believe its called icing sugar
August 21st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
or white chocolate
August 21st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
yian tay: sure would love to get the recipe from you. Anyway no worries about the choc burning, i was using a double boiler. Pity my home no microwave would make life much easier.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 am
or you could add baileys
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
They are deep fried?!?? I thought they were baked all along.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:07 am
How come your donuts no hole in the middle 1?
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
DK…. not all donuts must have holes laa… anyway my batter was too wet so cannot shape it at all
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
not bad lah, first attempt =)
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I can email u. Dun use Icing sugar – I feel it tastes funny cos we don’t use good quality oil like grapeseed oil to fry the doughnuts tend to taste funny (to me). Use strong flavoured things like Chocolate. Microwave is safer than using double-boil. In double-boil still got chance of breaking up the fat of the chocolate. When my mum’s not home (cos too much chocolate is banned in my house), I always have cooking chocolate at home-for my double choc cupcakes. Another ultra solid thing to do is to dip in melted choc and then dust milo over it – Super Duper!!
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 pm
yian tay: that would be nice, my email is zhouar@gmail.com.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I am so gonna try out that chocolate milo idea, sounds power
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
how come when i suggest 3-in-1 milo powder, u snuffed at me?!?!
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Cos its 3 in 1!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I think buying donuts from the shops are so much easier. Not to mention that super long Q.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I think it is more in the joy of baking and cooking. If i wanted a quick snack of donuts, I would definitely just go buy some.
You queue up for 2 hrs at donut factory, I think i can crank out about 50+ donuts in that timespan
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
How come you never asked me to help you make the holes in the donuts? I make pretty good ones!
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Sicarii…. you probably be a black hole and eat up all the donuts lor
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 pm
But at least I make them holes first!
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 am
No you will create a giant hole by eating the entire donut!
August 26th, 2007 at 11:09 am
http://drunkencook.blogspot.com/
here, sorry for the delay – the recipe for doughnut. It seems a little complicated, but it isn’t. You just probably need a little bit more stuff :p
Good luck with it.
August 26th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Thanks!