Doughnuts

The kids and I made doughnuts this weekend. Good stuff! This picture shows them fresh and hot after being fried in grape seed oil. We dunked them in vanilla glaze while still hot. The results were akin to what you might get at Krispy Creme except much tastier and slightly better for you. Krispy Creme uses hydrogenated shortening to fry their doughnuts.
The boys love the opportunity to roll any extra dough resulting from a baking/cooking project. Unfortunately, in all of their excitement they over exercised the gluten in this yeast dough causing their doughnuts to be dense and unpalatable once out of the fryer. They now understand why we let dough take a rest.
I'm standing off to the side explaining that even though they're having a blast, the resulting "doughnuts" after taking this abuse will be like little fried rocks. They obviously don't care espeically since out of sight of the camera sits a platter holding over two dozen hot glazed doughnuts.