When you have a bounty of spring jam, make soft, fried donuts and fill them with a sweet taste of the season. Check out this recipe for stunning strawberry rhubarb donuts.
SO many things I need to do, but really all I wanted to do was make jam. So I made jam. Strawberry rhubarb jam, and it is delicious. Only, I made more jam than I had jars for. Somehow my jars have gone missing just like my hair clips and pens.
Naturally, when you have extra jam, you make doughnuts to hold said jam.
Or maybe that’s just me.
I love to make donuts! Here are some of my other favorite recipes: Baked Chocolate Donuts, Copycat Krispy Kreme Donuts
I find that kneading by hand is the way to go for these doughnuts. You do not want a dough that is sticky, but adding too much flour is not a good thing at all. When you knead by hand, you can feel exactly when to stop adding flour. For me it was at 3 3/4 cups. That is not to say you cannot use your mixer, just be careful and add extra flour little by little only until your dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
Coating the doughnuts in sugar before adding jelly can get a little sticky, however, once you fill them, tossing them around makes a BIG mess!
I use the Ball recipe for strawberry rhubarb jam, only I don’t use the pectin or butter. use your favorite recipe or even store bought. Either way, these strawberry rhubarb jelly doughnuts are sure to wow.
Click here for the jam recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 package active dry yeast (I prefer Red Star Platinum Yeast)
- 3 – 4 cups AP flour
- 2 eggs (lightly beaten)
- vegetable oil for frying
- 1/2 cup strawberry rhubarb jam (click the link above for the recipe)
- sugar for dusting doughnuts
Instructions
- in a small saucepan warm the milk with butter, until butter melts
- remove from the heat, and stir in sugar and salt
- allow to cool to slightly more than lukewarm (100- 110 degrees)
- combine the yeast with 3 cups of flour
- stir in milk and eggs
- knead dough (either by hand on a well floured surface, or using the dough hook of a stand mixer) adding enough of the extra flour to create a smooth ball of dough (dough should not be sticky)
- place the dough in a bowl, cover and let rise until doubled, about 90 minutes
- on a floured surface, roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness
- cut with a round cookie cutter (2 – 3 inches) or a biscuit cutter
- place rounds on a floured baking sheet, cover and rise 30 – 45 minutes
- while the rounds are rising, heat oil (about 3 inches deep) in a large deep pot to 375 degrees on a deep-fat thermometer
- fry doughnuts (no more than 2 at a time) flip after 45 seconds,and cook until golden (1 1/2 – 2 minutes total)
- drain doughnuts on paper towels
- cool only until you can handle them comfortably,and then using a skewer poke a hole in the side of each doughnut
- toss doughnuts in granulated sugar
- place jam in a piping bag fitted with a round tip (I use a Wilton #12 – smaller tips tend to get clogged with the jam)
- pipe jam into each doughnut
- enjoy warm
Notes
doughnut recipe from epicurious jam recipe from ball
- Category: Dessert, Donuts
