The Complete Guide for Donut Making Process
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With the growing demand for sweets, donuts, which used to be available only in bakery stores, has now joined the mass production industry. So, do you know how to make delicious donuts? Understanding the production process and combining it with the advice of bakers in your daily life, today I’ll tell you about the Donut Making Process.
1. Preparing Donut Ingredients
The basic ingredients needed to make donuts are medium gluten flour, yeast, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, lemon and cinnamon. These ingredients can be proportionally prepared according to your personal taste requirements and developed flavors.
2. Portion preparation
After preparing all the ingredients, you need to mix them in certain proportions. Below I am combining the suggestions provided by the baking, more in line with the public taste of the proportion, you may wish to refer to it.
1. Medium gluten flour 300g, medium gluten flour is to make the doughnuts have gluten, you can also choose ordinary flour, which may not taste as good as medium gluten flour.
2. Yeast 10g, the yeast is to ferment the dough and make the dough more fluffy.
3. Sugar 80-100g (the sweetness is according to you or the R&D team)
4. The salt here can play a role in regulating the flavor and neutralizing the sweetness, the amount can not be more, than 300g of flour is generally used at about 3g.
5. Eggs are generally 50-60g of the weight of the original egg, you need 1-2, the egg can be enriched, so that the structure of the dough is stable.
6. Warm milk 150ml, you can also use warm water instead, but the milk can make the donuts more fragrant.
7. Softened butter 60-70g, put the butter in advance in the thawing, until you can let the finger easily press on the softening of good, increasing the recall and softness of the donuts.
8. Next, you need vegetable oil, soybean oil, and other vegetable oil to fry donuts, the amount of oil needs to cover the donuts.
9. Of these, the above-said vanilla extract and lemon zest shavings are to add fresh flavor and you can add as much as you want.
3. Mixing
- ingredients ready to start mixing, here need to pay attention to the trick is that the warm milk can be mixed with the yeast first, first let the yeast activation
- Then in the container, the flour, sugar, and salt and mix well
- and then the softened butter, eggs, and yeast mix into a ball
4. Wait for fermentation
- Knead the dough into a smooth and elastic dough, then seal it with plastic wrap and let it ferment in warm conditions.
- When the dough has doubled in size, you can dry it out with a rolling pin and let it ferment 2 more times.
5. Shape and fry
- Knead the second fermented dough into a donut shape with a grater or by hand and wait for fermentation again
- Prepare a deep and wide pan, so that the doughnuts can be fried in enough space.
- Heat the oil to 175-185 degrees Celsius, you can use a small dough as a standard to test the temperature of the oil, the small dough is put into the frying pan and begins to bubble, indicating that the oil temperature is suitable.
- Deep fry each side for about 1-2 minutes, you can judge by the donuts turning golden brown.
6. Drain and frost.
Fry the doughnuts until both sides are golden brown and then remove them from the pan. You can use oil-absorbing paper or a strainer to dry out the excess oil, which will reduce the greasiness when you taste them.
Traditionally, donuts can be frosted: In a container, mix milk and powdered sugar to form a runny frosting liquid, wait for the donuts to cool to room temperature, and then frost them, taking care to evenly coat both sides with the frosting. Place the frosted donuts on a rack to dry.
7. Decorate
This step of decorating needs to be matched with what you want to make the flavor is, the market a lot of donut flavors are: chocolate, jam, matcha, cream, and other flavors. Take a common chocolate flavor as an example to start.
The recipe is as follows:
Chop up the chocolate, put it into a clean container, and melt the chocolate block under hot water until smooth, you can add your favorite chopped nuts as a match, put the donuts according to their own preferences into the chocolate liquid wrap, sprinkle colored candies or other edible decorations when the chocolate is not fixed, wait for the solidification can be used or sold.
Jam filling method: Put the boiled jam into a piping bag with a sharp nozzle and pour the jam into the doughnut to form a jam doughnut, which is richer in flavor.
For the above donut making process, the important point to summarize is that the ratio of raw materials must be within a range, also if you are a donut manufacturer, batch production of donuts, the above principles will not change, but each step has a special machine to assist you to automate the production, however, you as the donut manufacture However, as a donut manufacturer, the donuts need to be packaged before they can be sold. From the production line to the dosing line to the packaging line, what do you need to look for?
Donut handling line
The donuts are transported from the production plant to the packaging plant on a conveyor belt. On the way, the donuts are sorted out on the line and distributed at a certain distance on the conveyor belt to be packaged.
Donut packaging
As the incoming donuts have been arranged in an orderly manner in the sorting line, the flow wrap machine contains a film making system, which is designed to package the donuts according to the height of the donuts you have produced. Commonly, plastic donut packaging is transparent packaging, which allows you to see the donuts more visually and is more appealing to consumers.
Many donut manufacturers put single donut packaging and then organize them in a uniform way before transporting them to the appropriate sales markets.
Overall, the donut making process is not cumbersome, if you want to open up the market donuts businessmen can be more of their own business model of reasonable with the production, packaging equipment. The above is the donut-making process, you need to collect and share with your friends.
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