Ingredients:
- 600 g purpose flour for rising the dough (if available)
- 150 g sugar
- 5 eggs
- 120 ml milk
- 150 g of melted butter
- 1 cube of fresh yeast - 25g
- 1 vanilla sugar 10 g
- a pinch of salt
- jam filling or optional
- powdered sugar
- Crumble cube of yeast in a warm milk and add a spoon of sugar, set aside to foam.
- Melt butter and cool down a bit.
- Add flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, melted butter in a larger bowl. Mix with attachments for dough with a mixer, start kneading adding the eggs one by one and the milk. Add a bit of salt in the end. Leave the dough to rest in warm and to grow. If the dough is too soft, feel free to add a few more tablespoons of flour
- Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
- Get 2 baking trays and coat with baking paper.
- Spread risen dough on flour sprinkled work surface and stretch dough only slightly by hand to 3-4 cm thickness (don't make it thin). Using a glass cut circles and align on a baking sheet, knead again the remaining dough and repeat the process. Leave enough space between so they won't stick while baking.
- Leave doughnuts covered in warm to rest and to grow until they double their size, then put to bake 15-20 minutes until they get a fine color.
- Cool ready donuts a little and charge to taste. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.