We had a heatwave and in my wisdom I made maple glazed doughnuts. Not the slightly virtuous baked kind, no I made the indulgent crispy on the outside, fluffy doughnut that is deep fried in oil. So in 28C temperatures I was frying oil to 180C to make doughnuts and it was completely worth it. These maple glazed doughnuts taste so good, I ate one straight away and then I had to step away from them, so there were some left to photograph!
You might wonder why I was so dead set on making maple glazed doughnuts despite the weather. Well firstly I had some family that had returned from a trip to Canada and they brought me so many goodies, maple butter, maple candies and some maple flakes. As soon as I saw the flakes I knew I wanted to make doughnuts with a maple glaze and a sprinkle of maple flakes.
The other reason I wanted to make them, is because I was approached by JORD wood watches to work together on a project. They very kindly gifted me one of their gorgeous wood watches and I thought the colour palette of their wooden watches would perfectly compliment these maple glazed doughnuts and I wasn’t wrong.
Theses maple glazed doughnuts are adapted from Justin Gellatly’s famous recipe. Justin is well known from his time at St John’s Bakery and now Bread Ahead Bakery. The dough is left overnight in the fridge to rest and then shaped and left to prove the following day. His doughnuts are the classic variety, rolled in sugar and then filled. I wanted to go for a ring doughnut, which is very easy to do and then glazed. This is probably the best doughnut recipe I’ve ever had, which means I now need to do a pilgrimage to the bakery in Borough Market to buy one!
The JORD wood watch featured here is made from Ebony and Rosewood. It is so stylish and the best thing is that these watches are self-winding, no batteries are required and the mechanism inside is exposed meaning you can really see and appreciate how your watch works.
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Maple Glazed Doughnuts
Ingredients
- ***For the doughnuts***
- 250 g Strong White Bread Flour
- 30 g Caster Sugar
- 5 g Fine Sea Salt
- 5 g Dried Fast Action Yeast
- 2 Eggs
- 75 g Water
- 65 g Unsalted Butter Softened
- 2 Litres Rapeseed Oil for frying
- ***Icing***
- 100 g Maple Syrup
- 100 g Icing Sugar sifted
- ***To Assemble***
- Maple Icing
- Maple Flakes
Instructions
- Put the flour, caster sugar, salt, yeast, eggs and water into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook. Mix on medium speed for around 8 minutes, until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl and wraps around the dough hook.
- Turn off the mixer and let the dough rest for 1 minute. Slowly add the butter in small lumps with the mixer on medium, don't add the next batch of butter until the previous amount has been completely mixed in.
- Once all the butter is added, mix on high for 5 minutes, until the dough is glossy, smooth and very elastic when pulled. Cover the bowl with clingfilm and leave to prove until it has doubled in size. Knock back the dough, then re-cover the bowl and put into the fridge to chill overnight.
- The next day, take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out to a thickness of 2cm. Take a cookie cutter that is around 8-9cm in diameter and another that is 2cm, stamp out large circles to make the doughnut and then using the smaller cutter, stamp out a smaller circle to create a ring doughnut.
- Roll up the scraps of dough and roll them back out and stamp out more doughnuts, keep doing this until you have used nearly all the dough. This should make 9 doughnuts.
- Place the doughnuts onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, spaced widely apart, to allow for them to prove without sticking together. The doughnuts need to double in size (I made these during our heatwave and this only took just over an hour and a half, but in cooler weather this can take anything up to 4 hours as the dough will be cool from the overnight refrigeration).
- Get a heavy-based saucepan and fill it up to the halfway point with the oil and heat the oil to 180° C. When the oil is ready, gently pick up the doughnuts, trying not to drag them or to distort the shape too much. You will probably want to fry just one doughnut first, to check the oil and to get an idea of timings, about 2 minutes on each side should be enough. Remove the doughnut from the oil with a slotted spoon and place on a cake rack lined with kitchen towel.
- After the first doughnut, you should then be able to fry two doughnuts at a time, but make sure the oil is always back to 180C before frying. If the oil is too hot, the doughnut will be raw in middle and burnt on the outside and if it is too cold, the doughnuts will be greasy. Continue until all of the doughnuts have been fried.
- Allow the doughnuts to cool while you make the icing, combine the sifted icing sugar with the maple syrup in a bowl that is wide enough to fit a doughnut in. Once evenly mixed, you will have a very thick icing, dip the top of the doughnut in the icing until it is evenly coated. Then set back on a cake rack and sprinkle generously with the maple flakes.
- The finished doughnuts are best enjoyed within 24 hours or they will start to become greasy and they won’t taste as good - but they can still be eaten.
Thanks for reading.
Angela
This post was written in partnership with JORD Wood Watches, I was provided with a watch for free, but the opinions are all my own.
Jodie Dodd
Btw, I started following you on Instagram. I run my daughter’s high school soccer team account, so don’t think it’s odd that the team is liking your posts. 😀
patisseriemakesperfect
Ooh I haven’t seen anything. What is the team called?
Jodie Dodd
They’re the Titans (bmhsladytitanssoccer). Love your stories and Dylan enjoying the countryside! 🙂
Jodie Dodd
Maple cream-filled donuts have to be my most favorite thing in the world! Maple glazed are probably my second. How wonderful you were able to make them with ingredients from Canada! And that watch is stunning! Quite fitting they have a maple version available. 😀 So excited I was able to enter a contest! *crosses fingers*
patisseriemakesperfect
Me too Jodie. I really hope you win! Maple is one of my favourite flavours. I love it so much! It’s really expensive though! I wish I’d gone to Canada myself and got it though 😂
Jodie Dodd
I live across the lake from Canada and have only been there once! When you go to Niagara Falls you don’t think to get the good Canadian stuff, just Falls souvenirs. :p
Michelle @ Greedy Gourmet
The doughnuts match the wooden watch indeed. Both look fabulous!
patisseriemakesperfect
Thanks Michelle – aren’t they a perfect match!
Emily
Oooh yummy! I have just bought a doughnut pan so going to try some baked ones soon xx
patisseriemakesperfect
Love a baked doughnut, but I don’t have the space for more pans!
Dannii
I have always wanted to make my own doughnuts and a maple one sounds delicious.
I love these watches too – a very rustic look.
patisseriemakesperfect
You really should Dannii! They are so delicious. I am seriously impressed with the watch!
Vicky @ Avocado Pesto
These doughnuts looks delicious and those wood watches are gorgeous! I too never let the temperature outside deter my cooking cravings! Heatwave or not I never have a problem turning on the oven to bake if I feel inspired to do so!
patisseriemakesperfect
Vicky, you’re a woman after my own heart! I try not to be deterred by the weather! Oh and yes the watches are stunning
Anita
Kudos for braving the heat wave and fried some lovely donuts, and boy, those look wonderful! How I wish I can lick the monitor to have a taste. The weather here is pretty crazy hot right now, so saving this for slightly cooler months.
patisseriemakesperfect
Thanks Anita – they were such good doughnuts, I had to give some away to stop me eating them all!
Sues
What a cool watch! And obviously amazing-looking doughnuts!! Sometimes I seriously crave real fried doughnuts and nothing else will do.
patisseriemakesperfect
Cheers Sues – I know exactly what you mean about doughnut cravings!
Denise Wright
Yummy. Oh so yummy!
patisseriemakesperfect
Thanks Denise!
rika - food blogger
Glazed donuts? Look so delicious!I love maple icing too!
patisseriemakesperfect
Me too Rika – these are so good.