Berliner (New Year`s) Donuts

Summary

Ingredients

• 500g flour
• 200 ml milk
• 1 cube fresh yeast or pack dry yeast
• 50 grams sugar
• 5 egg yolks
• 60 g butter, soft
• 1 pinch (s) salt
• 1 teaspoon lemon peel, grated
• Oil for deep-frying, 1 liter, or 1 kg deep-frying fat
• jam for filling

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Instructions

1. Put the flour in a bowl and make a well in the middle. Warm milk lukewarm. Add the yeast and dissolve it with 1 teaspoon of sugar. Pour the yeast milk into the cavity and cover and let rise in a warm place for about 10 minutes.
2. Add the rest of the sugar, egg yolk, butter, salt and lemon zest to the pre-dough and knead. Cover and let rise in a warm place until the dough has doubled in volume (approx. 30 minutes).
3. Knead the dough vigorously, cut in half and shape into 2 rolls. Then divide into 6 equal pieces, shape into balls and cover again for 30 minutes.
4. Heat oil or fat to 180 ° C. Fry the dough balls in portions, turning them. Take out, drain and let cool (preferably on kitchen towels).
5. Fill the jam into a piping bag with a small perforated nozzle, insert it into the side of the donuts and fill them with jam. Dust the donuts with powdered sugar or - if they are still slightly warm - turn them in normal sugar.
6. Note: Cherry jam or plum jam can be used as a filling. Eggnog also offers a delicious variety.