BAKED NUTMEG & CINNAMON DONUTS

Steps:

• Sift flour, nutmeg and seas salt together in a large bowl, or in the bowl of an electric mixer.
• Place ½ cup of the milk in another bowl and stir in the yeast. Set aside.
• Stir in the butter and sugar into the remaining cup of warm milk and add it to the yeast mixture.
• Whisk in the eggs using a fork and add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients.
• Mix until the flour has taken up the yeast mixture.
• If your dough is too dry add a little bit of milk at a time. If your dough is too sticky, then add a little bit of flour, until the dough becomes smooth enough to handle without sticking too much to your hands.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for two minutes.
• Shape into a ball and place into a lightly oiled or buttered bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise in a warm area away from drafts.
• Allow an hour or so for the dough to double I size, depending on the temperature.
• Prepare 5 baking trays with parchment paper.
• When the dough has risen, remove the dough from the bowl and punch down. Roll it out on a lightly floured surface to about ½-inch thickness.
• Using your cutter cut out donuts. Cut the outer circle first, then transfer to lined baking trays and then cut out the donut holes (smaller circle)**.
• Cover trays with a clean cloth and allow to rise for another 45 minutes.
• Preheat your oven to 180ºC.
• Bake the donuts for about 8 minutes; do not allow them to get brown.
• While donuts are baking, set up your butter and combine sugar and cinnamon in another bowl.
• Remove donuts from oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes.
• Dip each donut into the melted butter and give it a quick toss in the cinnamon sugar.
• *Make sure not to over heat the milk, the temperature should be just tepid so as not to kill the yeast.
• **Ensure that the holes are at least 2cm in diameter as that the holes will close more after rising and baking.