🌟 Vanilla Cream Donuts: A Sweet Indulgence for Your Taste Buds! 🍦🍩😋
Learn how to make delightful vanilla cream-filled donuts from scratch. Follow these step-by-step instructions, including preparing the dough, creating a luscious vanilla pastry cream filling, frying to golden perfection, and assembly. Enjoy these heavenly delights as a perfect dessert or indulgent snack!
Ingredients (with quantities):
Instructions:
👨🍳 1) Stiff Levain: Mix sourdough starter, water, and flour in a bowl. Rise in a warm spot for 8-10 hours until tripled in size.
👨🍳 2) Main Dough: Combine flour, stiff levain, eggs, milk, sugar, and salt. Mix until just combined. Rest/autolyse for 30 mins. Continue mixing for 5 mins, then gradually add softened butter. Mix at medium speed for 15-25 mins until the dough passes the window-pane test. Proof the dough in a warm place for 6 hours, fold the dough gently twice during this period, then cold-proof for 6-8 hours in the fridge.
👨🍳 3) Vanilla Pastry Cream: Prepare egg yolk mixture with sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Heat milk and vanilla until bubbles form, then temper the eggs. Cook, stirring until thickened. Remove from heat, add butter, cool, and refrigerate.
👨🍳 4) Shaping and Final Proof: Divide dough, shape into 15 pieces, and let rise on floured parchment paper squares until doubled in size (10-14 hours).
👨🍳 5) Frying the Doughnuts: Heat oil to 180-185°C. Fry donuts for about 2 mins per side, then drain on paper towels and toss in sugar while warm.
👨🍳 6) Assembly: Stir the chilled pastry cream, then fill each donut using a piping bag inserted into a hole made in the center of each cooled donut.