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How are Donuts Typically Made?
- Donuts are typically ring shaped with a hole in the middle.
- They are easily and quickly made.
- Dough is mixed and shaped, dropped into oil and fried, glazed. Jam filled are bismarks.
- Batters vary, often chocolate, lemon, fruits, or nuts.
Ingredients and Varieties
- Ingredients commonly include: flour, yeast, baking powder, sugar, butter, and oil.
- Cake doughnuts use all-purpose flour, sugar, milk, baking powder, salt, eggs, shortening, spices like nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Most popular is a circular one covered in plain glaze, but numerous variations exist including: powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, chocolate, butterscotch, jelly.
Business and Production
- Making money in donuts is possible.
- Required expertise, staff, and equipment are needed to set up and run a donuts business.
- Visit agencies to register the business and get the permits needed.
- Doughnuts are baked and sold at small bakeries, grocery stores, and franchise operations.
- Large bakeries make thousands daily, packaging for distribution.
Historical Background
- An American claimed inventing the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when dissatisfied with greasiness of twisted shapes and raw center of regular doughnuts.
