Summary

Ingredients

• 2 large egg (s)
• 220 g suar
• 170 g sour cream
• 60 ml milk
• 40 g butter
• 1 tablespoon jam, orange jam (heated)
• 2 teaspoons orange peel, grated
• 510 g flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 teaspoon ½ nutmeg, (ground)
• Oil, for deep-frying
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

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Instructions

1. In a large bowl, stir the eggs with a hand mixer until they are nice and light yellow. Then add the sugar and stir until it has dissolved and everything is thick and creamy. Melt the butter in the microwave and let it stand for a while, also heat the orange jam in the microwave or briefly on the stove (in a small saucepan). If you only get jam with pieces of fruit, brush it briefly through a hair sieve before heating.
2. Now add the sour cream, milk, melted butter, jam and the orange zest to the egg mixture and stir in everything.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg into a small bowl and add to the egg mixture. Just stir in briefly until everything is connected. It`s a softer batter and that`s how it should be. Put this in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
4. In a deep pan or wok, fill in the oil approx. 6-8 cm high and heat it up. I use a thermostat and it should show a temperature of 190 degrees, then the fat is hot enough. The whole thing can of course also be done in a deep fryer.
5. While the oil is now getting hot, place the dough on a very well floured surface. Also sprinkle flour on the upper side of the dough and this now approx. 6-7 mm. roll out thick. With a 6.5 cm. Cut out dough pieces using a round donut cutter. If you don`t have one, you should use a cutter of the same size and ideally use an apple core cutter for the hole in the middle.
6. These small, round pieces of dough are also baked, so do not knead them again with the remaining dough.
7. If the fat is now hot, add 3-4 donuts and bake for about 1 1/2 minutes on each side until golden. I use a wooden skewer to turn it over.
8. Drain the baked donuts on kitchen paper and then place on a wire rack. Continue like this until all of the donuts are cooked. Then the small round pieces of dough are baked. You can now add more of this to the oil at once, and bake it just as golden yellow as the donuts themselves.
9. Now roll everything in powdered sugar or dust donuts and balls with it.
10. They taste best when they are still lukewarm, but are also very good when cold.
11. The dough is also very easy to freeze. The best thing to do is to put it in the fridge the evening before using it and then proceed with it in the same way as with the fresh dough.