Doughnut Making Kit

I've never fancied frying doughnuts, so baking them seems such a good idea. I used a recipe from a bread machine book, on the dough setting. The recipe stated that it made enough for 16, so once I had another set of moulds I was able to make a batch of ring doughnuts. I did find the bottoms didn't brown much, so for the last 3 or 4 minutes I carefully (with tongs) flipped them out of the mould & put them back in upside down to finish browning. I dipped them in a lemon juice & icing sugar wet mix as soon as I got them out of the oven, and shortly after they all disappeared!

A Christmas gift I had researched and requested. I'd never made doughnuts before and didn't want to deep fry. There isn't a recipe but I found a good one which makes enough for all 8 molds. I personally think these make great doughnuts without all the frying - after all if I want fried ones I'll buy them. The kit would be improved by including a basic recipe for less confident bakers and takes the guesswork out of experimentation. It would have been good to have a mold set with 8 ring or 8 round ones but I shall be buying another set so I can do that. No sticking either, lovely kit.

Used the new yeast recipe on the doughnut kit page. The results are just fabulous. Everyone from grandchildren to adults agreed. Previous attempt with batter recipe a disaster

I had this doughnut making kit delivered yesterday and thought okay give it a go. Printed some recipes off the website and away we went. Very good sturdy silicone moulds no need to grease. Cooked them for the time suggested then popped them out of the moulds and rolled them in sugar. FABULOUS

I used a recipe from the website which was for 36 mini doughnuts and put the mixture in the 8 silicone moulds. They are great, funky colours. My ring doughnuts came out as fully rounded on the top and only ring half way through the bottom, but I think that could be rectified with a recipe specifically for use with the kit. I had to guess on the cooking time, and we had very sticky doughnuts indeed... some might say too sticky. I would like to use a different recipe next time - one in which I could use my cutter - so a roll-out dough, but I couldn't see one on the website - is there one??