Christmas Doughnuts with Nutella®
A doughnut perfect for Christmas
The original name - krapfen - is a doughnut with no hole and they are wonderful. Because it is soft, hot and filled with Nutella®, which makes them a perfect recipe to make at Christmas.
Nutella® are here to show you how to make doughnuts and the result will make you happy and extremely satisfied: this mouthwatering, traditional recipe is going to change your idea of pastry.
INGREDIENTS for 10 servings
250 g bread flour (Manitoba)
10 g fresh yeast
1 egg
1 egg yolk
4 g salt
50 g soft butter
35 g granulated sugar
100 ml whole milk
½ vanilla pod
Grated lemon zest
150 g Nutella®
Oil for frying
Icing sugar to decorate
HOW TO MAKE DOUGHNUTS
Heat the milk in a pan or microwave and dissolve in the fresh yeast. Add in 1 whole egg, 1 egg yolk and whisk together until mixed.
Place the bread flour, the granulated sugar and the scraped vanilla seed from the pod on a wooden cutting board. Put the milk and egg mixture in the center and knead everything together until the dough is smooth. Then add soft butter, salt and grated lemon zest into the dough and continue to knead.
Put the dough in a bowl and cover so the dough rises, leave this for 2 hours. Once risen, roll the dough in your palms, making 10 40g balls that resemble doughnuts. Place on a baking tray covered with parchment paper. When they rise and double in size, fry in oil at 175° C. Take the doughnuts out from the oil & let them cool down on absorbent paper for few minutes.
The easiest way to fill each doughnut with 15g of Nutella® is to use a piping bag. Once filled, cut a star out of a cardboard sheet and then use it as a stencil to decorate the doughnuts. Add icing sugar to the doughnuts, when you remove the cardboard stencil, your doughnuts will have a nice star on. Then it is to time to dig in!
