Yeast Raised Glazed Donuts

Finally, the moment BFF has been waiting for...Donuts!

Recently I got it into my head that I wanted to make donuts. I think it came about like this:

Me - Hey, EC, what do you want for dinner tonight?
EC - Hmmm, I know, donuts!
Me - Hmm, what is we made them this weekend instead?
EC - Ok.
Me - So, what are we going to have for dinner tonight?

The donut recipe that I found said to cut out donuts using a donut cutter and since I like to follow my recipes as closely as possible, I had to find a donut cutter. This meant me dragging EC to Michaels, Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and Walmart, and then later making EC call Macy's and Shopko for me, all to no avail. I was about to order one off the Internet and then I had a sudden burst of inspiration: TriState (sing it: We live in North Idaho, and it shows).

So EC called them up and apparently I wasn't the only one who's husband requested donuts for dinner, because they were out of donut cutters until Wednesday. WEDNESDAY - that meant I had to wait 4 days, and I hate waiting. But finally Wednesday came and I bought my little donut cutter. Then on Saturday I made the dough up for the donuts so the EC and I could make them together on Sunday.

Sunday came and making donuts was a family affair, even Petey got into it, by which I mean, sat in the dome box. I rolled out the donut dough, got out my new little donut cutter, pressed it into the dough....and the handle broke. I feel like that should be ironic. So EC used a cup and a large icing tip to cut out donuts and I used our newly acquired and newly broken donut cutter. We had fun, fried up the donuts, decorated them, and ate them. EC really liked them, he said they were better than store bought donuts. I am still slightly unsure of how I feel about them. I do know that they are much better fresh then they are the day after. The day old donuts were no good, ick. Thus ends the donut making adventure.

Yeast- Raised Glazed Doughnuts

1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 cup sugar
2 and 1/4 tsp instant yeast
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 large egg
1 cup milk
2 tbsp butter, melted
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
vegetable oil for frying

Glaze :
1/4 cup milk
2 cups confectioners sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Whisk together the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine the egg, milk, butter and vanilla and stir into the flour mixture, mixing until well combined. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes, then knead for 8 minutes until you have a smooth, soft dough. Place the dough in a buttered bowl, turn it over to grease the top and let it rise, covered in a warm place for 1 and 1/2 hours or for better result let it rise in the refrigerator overnight.
Deflate dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Gently roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into rounds using a doughnut cutter. Place in GREASED baking sheet and let rise again for 1 hour until doubled again.
Fry dough in oil (with temperature of 350 F) until golden brown. This should take no more than a minute for each side. Over cooking will make doughnuts tough. Drain on paper towels.
To make the glaze, stir the milk into the confectioners sugar until it is smooth, then add vanilla.
When the doughnuts are cool enough to handle (but still warm) dip the tops of the doughnuts in the glaze, then place on a rack or plate to let glaze drip down.