Fried Blueberry Muffins and more!

These 3-day weekends are dangerous.

The long weekend+Family in town+Holiday weekend=A good excuse to fry some dough!

Here's a blueberry doughnut recipe I attempted. They turned out pretty good. My cousin, Olivia said, "It's kind of like a fried blueberry muffin with glaze on top." They're gonna be swarmin' like flies with a slogan like that.

Start with 2 Tbsp shortening and a cup of sugar. Mix them in an electric mixer until combined. Add 2 eggs, one at a time (mixing after each addition). With the mixer still running, add 1 cup buttermilk.

Now, go ahead and change the attachment to the dough hook and throw in 1 pint of fresh blueberries (rinsed and patted dry).

In a separated bowl, sift together 4 cups flour, pinch of salt, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda. Add the flour mixture (about a cup at a time) with the mixer still running, until it forms a ball of dough.
Like this.

Transfer the dough into a bowl that is slightly coated with oil. Flip the dough once, cover, and refrigerate for at least an hour (or overnight).

The dough is stickier (is that a word?) than yeast dough, so you'll need a good bit of flour handy when rolling them out and cutting them.

Roll the dough and cut with a doughnut cutter or 2 biscuit cutters.

Fry them at 350 to 375 degrees until golden on each side. Pat dry and dip them in glaze (see recipe below).

This is the finished product!

I also made yeast doughnuts that you may remember from my last 3-day weekend. I used the regular glaze which consists of:

3 cups Powdered Sugar
½ teaspoons Salt
½ teaspoons Vanilla
½ cups Milk

I also made a semisweet chocolate glaze made like this:

1/3 cup unsalted butter
4 ounces semisweet chocolate
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup warm water
Melt butter and chocolate. Whisk in powdered sugar until smooth. Gradually stir in the water until the mixture reaches the desired consistency.

And looks like this.

Another crowd-pleaser today was a maple glaze made with:

2 Tbsp butter, melted

1/2 tsp maple flavoring

1.5 cup powdered sugar

Slowly add milk until desired consistency (usually about 1/4 cup)

It looked like this.

I'm probably the last person on Earth to know about Picasa, but Kim just recently told me about it when I asked her how she makes all of her collages. I just love the compact way of displaying all the pictures together. So here is a perfectly sweet doughnut collage:

So fun!