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How To Make Homemade Doughnuts
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Sep 6, 2024
In this tutorial I show how to make homemade doughnuts with vanilla or chocolate cake batter and how to decorate them with plain and coloured ganache and glazes with different toppings. You can buy a silicone doughnut mold here: https://amzn.to/2YnnSoa The recipes for my vanilla and chocolate cake batter are here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes If you buy any of the products I've linked out to, the price you pay won't change but I will make a small commission on anything you buy. Thank you for helping to keep the British Girl Bakes tutorials FREE! SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi and welcome to British Girl Bakes! I'm going to show you how to make these beautiful little doughnuts, which are ridiculously easy to make and a great way to use up any extra cake batter you have
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You'll need a silicon doughnut mould, and this one is from a Japanese dollar store, so you don't need anything fancy
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You can make these with any butter-based cake batter, and I've put the links for my vanilla and chocolate cake in the description below
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You can make a batch especially for these if you want to make quite a few, or if you have a bit of batter left over
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after filling your cake pans, this is a fun way to use it up. The easiest way to do this is
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to spoon your batter into a piping bag without a piping tip, just with the end of the bag cut
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so that there's a hole. Squeeze the batter in a ring around the donut mould, making sure you
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don't overfill the mould. Every cake recipe is different as far as how much it rises, so for
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example my chocolate cake doesn't rise as much as my vanilla cake, so I can use more chocolate batter
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but I know I need to be quite stingy with how much vanilla batter I'm piping into the mould
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I'm going to overfill this final donut to show you what happens. The batter will come up out of the
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mould when it bakes, so instead of your donut being nice and rounded, it will overflow to make a big
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blob like a muffin top, and it can also close up that signature hole in the middle of the donut
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Depending on your cake batter, you may or may not choose to grease the mould
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My vanilla batter doesn't stick to the mould, so I don't need to grease it, and you can see how
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how easily these come out of the mould. But my chocolate batter does stick, so if I don't
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grease the mould when I turn the doughnuts out they break apart like this If I spray cooking oil into the mould and then bake the doughnuts they don stick to the pan but they come out of the oven with little holes where the oil
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pooled in the mould. This will mostly be covered with a glaze, so it doesn't matter aesthetically
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but it can also create slightly darker and slightly crispy doughnuts, because the oil burns the edges
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of the doughnuts. And you can see that here on these doughnuts that were cooked in a greased
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mould compared to these doughnuts on the left that were cooked in an ungreased mould
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So if you need to grease the mould I recommend either rubbing the moulds with just a
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little bit of butter or spraying them with oil and then using a paper towel to dab the
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mould gently to mop up any excess oil and this is how the chocolate doughnuts baked
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when I did that. The baking time for these will be a bit less than they would be for
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cupcakes partly because of the hole in the middle so the cake part of the
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doughnuts is thinner than a cupcake and partly because silicon heats up
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more quickly than a metal cupcake mould. For example, when I bake cupcakes with this vanilla
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batter they take 16 minutes to bake but for donuts it only takes 12 minutes. For chocolate
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cupcakes take 17 minutes to bake but donuts take 14 minutes. You can tell when these are
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ready because when you poke them gently they should spring back. Take the mould out of the
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oven, let it cool for about a minute to give the donuts a chance to set, and then flip the mold out
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over a cooling rack, peeling the mould carefully off the doughnuts to leave them behind as you lift the mould up
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don miss a tutorial When the donuts are completely cool it time to decorate My favourite topping for these is chocolate ganache
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I almost always have some ganache in the fridge, because I make drip cakes very regularly
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so I've melted this in the microwave for 40 seconds at 60% power because I didn't want
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to burn it. And now I'm pouring and squeezing it into a bowl a bit bigger than my donuts
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I'm picking the donuts up, flipping them over, and dunking them in the
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the ganache to cover them about halfway up, flipping them back over and leaving them to set on the cooling rack
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Before they set you can add any sprinkles or other ingredients, but you have to be quick because once the ganache hardens, any toppings will bounce right off
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I only have 10 doughnuts here, so I'm going to dip them all and then sprinkle them all
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And I'm using two types of sprinkles, these chocolatey looking ones and these fun colourful ones
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You can use coloured ganache as well, so for the next batch of doughnuts I'm making pale blue ganache and pale pink ganache using candy melts and cream
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I cover how to make dark chocolate and white chocolate ganache and how to colour it in my online course on 10 cake decorating techniques
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And you can find out more by clicking the link in the screen or I've put the link in the video description below
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For the candy melt ganche I've used a 4-1 ratio of 40 grams of candy melts and 10 grams of heavy whipping cream or double cream
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double cream, microwaving it at 50% power for two minutes and stirring it until it's smooth
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Now I'm pouring one color of ganache into the other, stirring it gently to mix them together
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just a little bit and then dipping the donuts to cover half in the ganache angling the donuts and re to get the coverage I want You can leave them like this or add some sprinkles before
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the ganache sets. Instead of ganache, you can make a glaze for your donuts, but this isn't my
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favourite way of decorating them because glazes are very sweet, and to get the right consistency
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to dip the doughnuts, the coverage isn't as good as it is with ganache. To make enough glaze for
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six doughnuts, sift one cup of powdered sugar into a bowl and whisk in two tablespoons of whole
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or full fat milk. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and pour it into a wide shallow bowl. Dip your donuts
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and you can spoon more glaze onto them to get better coverage
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You can add colour to your glaze, either mixing completely or just marbling the colours together
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and then dip the doughnuts or spoon the glaze over the top
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You can add delicious toppings like oreo creams, sliced, sliced almonds
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almonds, sprinkles, whatever you like. Store the donuts in an airtight container for a day or two or decorate a cake with them. Thanks for watching
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