I love the taste of crisp bacon and I'm always looking for ways to incorporate it into everything. When I first heard of bacon in desserts I was a little disgusted. But once I had my first bite of a maple bacon cupcake, I was changed forever. Since then I have been trying to sample as many bacon flavored desserts as I can. This is truly the perfect way to end (or start) your day!
Since I was too lazy to put on a clean pair of pants, I decided to make some Maple Bacon Doughnuts myself.
And it hit the spot.
I also made Chocolate Iced Doughnuts because, well, chocolate.
I had never made doughnuts before. Frankly, the thought of deep frying anything sort of terrified me. The combination of hot oil splashing and not having the right tools made it a daunting task. I decided to take the plunge. The craving was too strong.
It wasn't as difficult as I had thought! Once you get a rhythm going, deep frying isn't so hard. Now whenever I need a doughnut fix, I follow this easy recipe. I'm thinking a blueberry cake doughnut next, or cinnamon sugar...
Ingredients:
Doughnuts:
2 envelopes active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1.5 cups milk
1/2 cups white sugar
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup unsalted butter or shortening
5 cups all purpose flour
Oil for frying
Maple Topping:
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 tbsp warm water
Chocolate Glaze Topping:
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate
3 tbsp unsalted butter
1 tbsp light corn syrup
1/4 tsp vanilla
1. Sprinkle the yeast over the water and let it site for about five minutes, until foamy.
2. Mix together the yeast mixture, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, and butter.
3. Slowly add the flour, one cup at a time, until your dough no longer sticks to your mixer. Remove from mixer, and knead dough for about five minutes. Place the dough into bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Let it rise until doubled.
4. Roll out to 1/2" thickness and cut with doughnut cutter. If you don't have one, make one like me (I used a large circle cookie cutter and large piping bag coupler! hehe). Cover and let doughnuts rise again until doubled.
5. Heat oil in deep fryer and fry doughnuts until golden brown.
6. Fry bacon and set aside.
7. To make Maple Glaze, mix all ingredients together. That's it!
8. Dip donuts in glaze and then sprinkle cooled, chopped bacon on top.
YUMMMMYYYYY!!!
To make Chocolate Glaze:
1. Combine chocolate, corn syrup, and butter in double boiler until melted.
2. Add vanilla.
3. Dip donuts in cooled chocolate glaze, and add sprinkles if desired.
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