How to Make Homemade Donuts that Beat Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' | What's Eating Dan?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- The plush, tender chew and satiny glaze of freshly fried doughnuts is irresistible. Dan shows you how to make homemade doughnuts that beat Krispy Kreme and Dunkin', and gives you tips to fry successfully and safely.
Recipes:
Yeasted Doughnuts: cooks.io/3eDwWOZ
Cinnamon-Sugared Buttermilk Doughnuts: cooks.io/3eExPqc
Yeasted Doughnuts with Chocolate Frosting: cooks.io/3RPMRrD
Yeasted Doughnuts with Raspberry Frosting: cooks.io/3B1QgNf
Yeasted Doughnuts with Matcha Frosting: cooks.io/3B4JvKw
Yeasted Doughnuts with Coffee Frosting: cooks.io/3qrZSMt
Chocolate Cake Doughnuts: cooks.io/3d3MmeH
Buy our winning Dutch oven: cooks.io/3DzBbCw
Buy our winning baking sheet: cooks.io/2OTFRd8
Buy our winning 7 Quart Stand Mixer: cooks.io/2tkBbHO
Buy Waste Cooking Oil Powder: cooks.io/3SW5Yku
Follow Dan on Instagram: / testcook
Follow Dan on Twitter: / testcook
Follow Dan on Facebook: / dansouzacook. .
ABOUT US: Located in Boston’s Seaport District in the historic Innovation and Design Building, America's Test Kitchen features 15,000 square feet of kitchen space including multiple photography and video studios. It is the home of Cook’s Illustrated magazine and Cook’s Country magazine and is the workday destination for more than 60 test cooks, editors, and cookware specialists. Our mission is to test recipes over and over again until we understand how and why they work and until we arrive at the best version.
If you like us, follow us:
cooksillustrated.com
/ cooksillustrated
/ testkitchen
/ cooksillustrated
/ testkitchen
I hope I didn't sway the voting too much (yeasted are best), because I want everyone's vote (for yeasted) to count.
You didn’t sway the vote at all lol
Neither! Donuts are revolting. The smell of donuts frying is awful. I can't even walk near a donutshop! NoNoNoNoNO! I mean...I don't like deep fried food in general but that weird combination of sugar and flour frying in fat is particularly revolting. Perhaps because I didn't grow up with them or because it's genetic....I don't know but ....no thank you!
Definitely yeast. Although I do love a blueberry cake donut
Whenever there was a box of doughnuts at work, the cake doughnuts were always last to be eaten, if they were eaten at all. Poor lonely little cake doughnuts didn't feel the love.
As a Californian, I do feel cheated that we don't have the seasonal Cider Doughnuts that I've been hearing about over the last few years because I love Spiced Apple Cider! The doughnuts must be a real treat!
P.S. I thought that the coffee glaze in the video was a classic maple glaze at first.
@@KitarraChaosWeaver - Good! That means more donuts for me!
Yeasted all the way. Yay, Krispy Kreme!! Maybe because we don’t have one within 150 miles, we don’t get them often
You know that they have a website? They also do school fund raisers, js.... I bet you can have them shipped...😉
Us either. The Krispy kreme by us closed down, boo.
Yeasted! (Feel free to count my vote more than once.)
I never had a deep love of Dunkin’ (grew up with these) or donuts in general until having Krispy Kreme. It used to be that KrispyK turned on the HOT sign and would even sometimes give you a free fresh donut right out of the glaze! Nothing like it. ❤️
BUT ALSO…if you have the creme filled, that filling is currently the closest thing I’ve tasted to the real Hostess filling in the 70’s (these days Hostess filling is some kind of nasty lard). So the filly KrispyK’s are what provide childhood memories…and THAT is my emotional support ring!
Dan, please don't EVER stop making your videos. I literally laugh outloud and always learn great cooking technique. You are just the best. And yes, yeasted are the best too!
9:30 I remember following a Japanese bread dough recipe for the first time and adding the softened butter. The instructions literally said, "It's gonna look like you messed up. It's gonna look unrecoverable. This is PERFECTLY NORMAL, KEEP KNEADING." And the writer was right, the bread was delicious, albeit exhausting to make.
Yeasted emotional support rings all the way. I had a similar experience as a child going to Krispy Kreme for the first time and seeing the massive doughnut machine pump out freshly made batches. Changed my life forever.
Cake forever 🍩🍩
and not to mention they gave you a freebie right off the belt!!
@@mrscms831 wow so glad to see someone else remembers this! I, too, recall the love of my local Krispy Kreme… the best donuts around. And that hot, fresh, free bonus donut… man,
Nothing compares to that
I grew up with Krispy Kreme, so that's just what I thought all donuts were like. When I grew up and had Dunkin Donuts for the first time, I wondered who would debase themselves enough to eat those sad, dry rings. Yeasted donuts all day long.
Both yummy😳
I was a Donut Fryer for over 10 years and I never got tired of donuts but can I really say which is my favorite donut: cake or yeast? No, some days I want a soft yummy cake donut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles and some days I crave a glazed fluffy yeast donut. I love Both! Sorry Dan, I can’t decide. But sometimes I really want a yeast donut with Bavarian cream filling and chocolate icing .
Yeasted all day! This is the most Dan episode of What's Eating Dan and I LOVE it!!!! 😁😁😁
If I’m at an old fashioned doughnut place, a sour cream old fashioned cake doughnut is perfection itself. On the other hand, a fresh yeasted maple dip is pretty much guaranteed to calm me down from any problem.
I feel you Rick. Those are my two favs, in that order!!! So glad I'm not alone :)
Maple dipped are underrated! I prefer those over chocolate dipped.
Yep
Old fashioned with maple flavored frosting/glaze. Warm and crispy. Still remember 20 years later from a bakery in florida.
Amen Rick!!!
Team Yeasted here! Wonderful childhood memory was when Mom, coming home from night shift nurse at IU Med center, would stop at the famous Long's Bakery in Indianapolis for a dozen hot, fresh glazed. They would still be warm when she got home and woke me up for school. KKs are greasy gut bombs by comparison! 😋🤤
❤️My Polish grandma ❤ was a baker and baked every day. Her specialty was yeasted donuts filled with prune filling and rolled in granulated sugar. Heaven on earth! My vote is yeasted always!
When it comes to cake vs yeasted donuts, I choose Dan. Seriously, this series is so good. Please make more
I prefer the box in front of me…. But having grown up in NY with Dunkin’ Donuts then tried Krispy as an adult, Krispy Kreme was life changing. I don’t think I’ll be able to end the day without buying a dozen after watching this video- Thanks Dan!!!
Yeasted donuts every time. A “Hot Now” flashing sign at Krispy Kreme will draw me in every single time. Love the show!
Dan … your segment on donuts was FABULOUS !! My vote goes to YEAST donuts. Keep up your great work … it’s ALWAYS fun to listen to you !!!
Yeasted donuts 🍩 aka Pillows of heaven. Having said that, I would never refuse a cake donut and hurt the person’s feelings.😄 Our whole family loves your educational, smart, and funny videos. We learn and laugh along the way. Please keep ‘em coming!
Dan,
We all ❤ you. Oh my goodness, your segments are so educational, entertaining and endearing. I enjoy every minute of your videos, the subtle humor and charisma are perfect. 👌
We're so happy you're here!
Wow, thank you so much!
OK, I'm old! Remember Spudnuts? They were made with potato flour and sold door to door. They were amazing!! Never been anything to beat them. I see you can still find recipes or buy them on Amazon... For today's donuts, I'll take cake over yeast, except for cream filled ones! Great episode! Thanks.
VK Winner: Check out a guy, B. Dylan Hollis, he loves trying out vintage recipes and has a potato doughnut video! Enjoy!
There is still a spudnuts in Sacramento, CA.
YES! Used to have them as a kid in Milwaukee, WI. A yeasted donut with chocolate glaze is perfection!
Wow, spudnuts sounds amazing.
Yeasted doughnuts, donuts, ESRs for the win! Those lovely, airy rings of absolute deliciousness are the very best.
Love you, Dan! Yeasted is the way to go!
Thanks, Dan! This was my favorite video so far! It gives me courage to finally try the yeasted donut recipe from CI magazine.
I try to not to hide my disappointment when someone brings a cake donut, yeasted definitely win in my book!
Yes, I feel the same. If someone offered me a cake doughnut, I might gag, and I'm pretty sure I would not eat it. That being said, they were my husbands favorite kind. Go figure~
I love a good yeasted doughnut! We have a Dunkin' near our house and sometimes we get doughnuts for breakfast but now we are going to try making them ourselves. Yum! Thanks for the inspiring video, Dan! - Eleanor, 8.
When I was little my dad was transferred to Michigan. There was a little donut shop that had the best ever donuts called Dawn Donuts. I swear they were the best donuts I ever had. Now that I live in Florida, I miss for real cider and donuts.
I guess we have same story lol. Mine was a different place mine was Texas..
Yeasted. I like yeasted donuts so much more than cake donuts that I won’t even eat a cake donut. My favorite donut is really a beignet.
yeasted, always! i am Austrian and we love our Krapfen filled with apricot marmalade flavored with a hint of dark rum.
heaven 😋🥰
Yeast. I love your videos Dan. I'm going to make doughnuts for Sunday morning!
Yeasted! We made them in cooking school, and I still consider that one of my most satisfying experiences.
Yeasted doughnuts are it for me, I just love them. Great episode!
Thank you, Dan, for an entertaining episode as always ❤
I can’t decide between yeasted and cake doughnuts. I love them both. Really depends on my mood and appetite as to which one (or both) I’ll get.
Yeasted! And I've made this recipe, so tasty. Also, double chocolate cake doughnuts are my DD memory/go-to.
I grew up with my grandmother's cake donuts, so they are the One True Donut. That said, I won't turn up my nose if someone wants to make me yeasted donuts. 😉
Whoa, that powder to solidify the oil is amazing! Never heard of it before. Very cool!!!
It's cool, but the less expensive version is cleaning the oil with actual gelatin so you can reuse it
Isn't it so cool?
Both! I absolutely love blueberry cake donuts as well as old fashioned. Buuuttt Krispy Kremes are amazing!! I simply can't choose!
Oh, my favorites are definitely yeasted donuts! I grew up in central NC, and hot donuts were available at Krispy Kreme on the regular…yum! I now live in upstate NY, and the nearest Krispy Kreme is almost 2 hours away! 😢 I guess I will have to use your recipe to make my own!
I absolutely love Dan. I can’t explain it lol.
My husband loves yeasted, but I love cake doughnuts. Enjoyed your video!
Only on special occasions do I buy fresh donuts. But when I do, I start with 1 sugar yeasted raised and finish with a plain cake. YUM 😋
Cake donuts hands down! Especially when maple frosted in fall.
Worked at a doughnut shop in college. There are no better donuts than fresh donuts. That's the "magic" of Krispy Kreme, they're pumping out fresh ones all day. Try a day old KK, and it's usually worse than one sold in a traditional shop. My favorite: apple fritters. So many actually crispy bits, while still having the chew of a yeasted doughnut.
I'd rather eat a day old krispy kreme than a day old traditional shop cake donut, so freshness is not the be-all and end-all. Any who, my vote is for yeasted
Iono. I've loved a day old Krispy Kreme lol
@@Cyrribrae Same, but I think they were comparing a day old krispy kreme to a freshly baked donut from a regular donut shop? which was a little weird as a comparison, but I understand what they are trying to say, freshness is going to play a factor, they just used a poor example that made it seem like it was the only factor
Sorry bud, still enjoy a day old KK, just toss it in the microwave for 5 seconds. You're welcome
Oh yeah. Fresh of either is miles better than day-old, but a day-old cake donut is still good dunked if it hasn’t been ruined by being smothered in frosting, whereas a Krispy Kreme of any age on which the glaze is no longer crisp is worthless. Slimy donuts are just tragic.
If I could only have one type... It would be cake. Many years ago, the culinary program at a college I attended set up a donut fry in a campus parking lot on the last day of Spring quarter. I was on my way home when I smelled the unmistakable aroma of fried dough. Drawn by a force beyond my control, I found myself in the queue to buy a bag of fresh donuts. I purchased a half-dozen piping hot cake donuts, and consumed them all before completing the one mile walk home. I remember it like it was yesterday!
My sister became best friends with the local, late night donut maker in college. Changed our lives for a little while, the extra 'college 15' changed it back! But, yeasted gets my vote every day! Love your videos!
Was that an original throwback video of you! Loved it!
Since I’m one of the first comments and I’m 100% sure you’ll see this, I think your videos are awesome. I learn so much.
Thanks so much!
I'm a cake donuts gal. I don't mind yeasted donuts, but they're a little too cloyingly sweet for my taste. The full-bodied texture of the cake variety provides a more balanced counterpart to the sweet frosting/topping. My absolute favorite cake donuts are the apple cider donuts you find at farm stands this time of the year -- it's like biting into a sweet cinnamon-y pillow!
It's cider donuts time! I need to go apple picking and get some and also make my own.
I made a plan with my bff to hit up the farm with the best pumpkin patch, draft horses, and apple cider donuts this year. I am so ready for that deliciousness!
Hello how are you?
Yeasted are usually just bland on their own. It's the using that makes them sweet. If anything, cake is sweeter, as it usually has sugar in the batter, whereas yeasted don't have much if any.
omg....my aunt used to visit and always brought us glazed, chocolate glazed, and maple glazed (yeast!) donuts from a shop in Lodi, Wisconsin. Light, airy, sweet....HEAVEN with a hole in the middle! Though I DO love me a plain donut to dunk into coffee!
Yeasted. There is nothing like a fresh and warm raised glazed donut. That being said, I super appreciate a plain cake donut that's crispy in the center and warm. It is my go-to now that I'm trying to consume less sugar. I am lucky to live in a town with multiple mom and pop donut shops that are all highly capable. Thanks for the deep dive on donuts!
Me, Cake all the way, my wife, yeast…. 50 50 in this household. Great episode as always!
I love both! But I might like yeast just a smidgen more.
Also, try bacon or sausage, egg, and cheese on your donut, Dan. It's life changing.
I love both types very much but a sour cream glazed cake doughnut is my all time favourite.
Yeast doughnuts all the way! So glad to see you, Dan! You are aHOOT!
Hi Dan!! I love the show! I'm always down for an old fashioned CAKE donut!! Thank you!!
I'm an old guy who enjoys a good cake donut :-)
I always learn a little and get a good laugh from Dan.
Yeasted doughnuts are my favorite. BUT Iwill never refuse a cake doughnut. Thanjks for the great content Dan.
I like yeast doughnuts. I don’t eat them very often these days. But I’m gonna make fresh ones. 😁 Thank u Dan!
Cake donuts all the way! Duck Donuts is the absolute best place for them. Fresh out of the fryer smothered with whatever sweet toppings you want!
Yeasted, of course!
Really enjoyed this style of video Dan! But I still like blueberry cake doughnuts best🤤
Love a fresh cake donut with specks of nutmeg. I'm a West Coast girl and our yeast donuts are high and fluffy, and that is delicious! Krispy Kreme donuts are dense and they train the staff to pull them out before a white ring forms. Not a fan. We still have a few Winchell's here and they have yeast donuts that are very high and fluffy. Yummy!
I can’t make a final call! Warm fresh cake donuts are so incredible…but glazed yeasted really do just go straight to all the pleasure centers in my brain…
While I like yeasted doughnuts just fine, almost any cake doughnut beats any yeasted one, especially sour-cream or old-fashioned glazed, but for a true mouth frenzy I seek out a walnut cruller. Orange crullers are #2.
Crullers! ❤
This was Dough-Tastic 🍩😋❤️
Congratulations!!! You are now my favorite human❤
Honestly, I have no preference. I love both kinds. After giving it some thought, I do tend to eat the yeasted variety more often, so maybe that's a better qualifier. 🙂
Yeasted for me but I won’t turn down a good cake donut.
Yeasted!!! They are so light and fluffy that you can eat a bunch at one sitting. 🍩❤
That oil solidifying powder is amazing. (I probably still won't fry things though.)
I like yeasted donuts best when they're super fresh, but otherwise I like a glazed chocolate cake donut.
Lol... emotional support rings. I am so going to steal that line and use it all the time!
Seriously though, Dan is absolutely correct, yeasted Donuts are definitely the way to go! I don't have anything against a cake donut, and I enjoy them rather often. But the extra chewiness and density of a yeast donut just can't be topped by any other kind. And Krispy Kreme kicks the living crap out of Duncan any day. But it always puzzled me why they call it Krispy kreme. The blueberry cake Donuts are some of the best they sell. I'm just not the biggest fan of the glazed donuts with the plain powdered sugar glaze. I'd much rather have maple or chocolate. What I want to know is this. Where the hell do I get one of those donut cutters that makes the ring shape? When I last looked, I couldn't find one.
While yeasted (Krispy Kreme) doughnuts are pretty good, especially custard filled, I really prefer a plain cake doughnut dunked in my coffee. Chocolate iced cake doughnuts are pretty darn good too. Krispy Kreme used to make a devil's food doughnut years ago that was awesome but sadly its long gone. Cake for me, Dan. Sorry.
Yeasted donuts are not for dunkin I suppose
Had the same experience. Grew up with Dunkin Donuts. My fave was Boston creme. In college, I learned about Krispy Kreme when a new store opened up. Life changing. Yeasted for life.
Me and my partner prefer yeasted, but both enjoy a good cake donut too! Especially apple cider doughnuts and blueberry emotional support rings!
Cake donuts seem super duper easy to make without too much hassle, I'll definitely give it a shot soon!
I love both, but it also depends on what I'm doing and season. Winter I like a heavy donut with coffee or tea. Warmer months yeast donuts with cold Milk 🥰
Yeasted
Cake. Also love the 3rd alternative, not shown in the vid, the choux pate cruller. Yeast leaves a bitter aftertaste whereas eggs in the choux pate just make it….creamy!
Same dough for crullers is used in eclairs and cream puffs but both of those are baked, not fried.
Great vid, very helpful about oil breakdown and how to gel oil.
Cake in a heartbeat.
Being from the south I grew up on Krispy Kreme. Yeasted is my absolute favorite…but…I was introduced to a wonderful cake doughnut when I briefly lived up north in CT (I.e., apple cider doughnuts). While yes I love KK the most, during the fall it just feels right to eat a cider doughnut! So much the season!
I grew up in the Houston area. That means I’m a Shipley’s donuts man. A yeasted donut that especially when fresh and hot is food nirvana. They are more substantial than Kristy Kremes. Of course, they do cake donuts too. And Kolaches, which are another breakfast option that’s endemic to Texas. Their’s aren’t the best, but they are serviceable. Without regard, give me a Shipleys any day. I’m aware there are other local and regional options across the nation. Randy’s in LA for instance. Their hot donuts ain’t bad either.
Their glazed chocolate donuts were the best!
Oh, Kolaches.... I occasionally make them my self. But only when I am going to have a crowd for brunch. Lead me not into temptation... I can find it all by myself...
Shipley is my all-time favorite!
B&B Donuts on lower Westheimer has wonderful blueberry cake & maple cake donuts to chase down their boudin kolaches. Pre-Covid days, they would bag up some gratis donut holes [cake] with your breakfast order.
I like Shipley, but being from Dallas I grew up on Southern Maid more. They are the best (to me). I was probably 18 or 19 before Shipley came to my neighborhood. I really never cared for Krispy Kreme. Too much lard, maybe? 😎
KK’s cake donuts are amazing and their pumpkin spice cake donuts, *chef’s kiss*.
That being said, their original glazed are made by baby angels. KKD are the best!
Yeasted! Loved seeing the "hot donut" sign pop on at Krispy Kreme on Broad Street in Richmond Virginia. That first bite was life changing!
Krispy Kreme produces one of the best mass produced fresh chain product. The problem with the donuts is how quickly they become stale and the fact that kk stays the same consistency is incredible
Microwave stale KK donuts for 7-8 seconds to refresh. You’re welcome
Dan, always great content! Have you ever had an “Old Fashioned”? It’s obviously a cake doughnut, but what makes them so incredibly awesome compared to “normal” cake doughnuts?
Yeasted!! Love you Dan!
YEASTED all the way!!! Shipley's Do-nuts were the best, but they're mostly located in the South so I may actually have to try the yeasted recipe.
Cake, cake, and cake. Preferably from Dunkin Donuts.
I don't get the Krispy Kreme thing... crazy, crazy sweet 😝.
Cake donuts: crunchy on the outside, satisfying on the inside - tender with just a hint of sweetness and richness from the frying. A great way to start the day. 😇
yes, I say you cannot beat that texture on the outside vs inside
I'm definitely a cake donuts person. Chocolate cake and blueberry cake donuts are my top two, for sure. However, I'd be lying if I said I'd ever turned my nose up at a good yeast donut. Maple glaze yeast donuts get my number 3 spot. Donuts are just good.
Grilled cheese donuts are so good. Did them for my birthday one year. Prefer it with butterkäse.
Yeasted are the best. Growing up in St. Louis County, we always went to Schneithorst's for Sunday brunch after Sunday Mass. They made the very best glazed yeast donuts I ever had. Sadley, they closed a few years ago, but maybe trying to make my own will make up for the loss of a St. Louis landmark. Well, at least for me!
Just a tip for those leftover yeast donuts that have gone a little stale. Ten to 20 seconds in the microwave restores their yummyness (microwaves vary so be careful)
Leftover yeast donuts?
@@misterscottintheway - Yeah, it is a thing. Most of my coworkers were young women and they avoided donuts out of concern for their weight (I know, that's weird but what can I say)
I'm done sitting tight for the award advance since i acquire$23,000 every 12 days of my investment.
@Frederick G Wood After I came across bitcoin trading platform of Mr Clinton Jackson my financial life has totally changed.
This man has really change the life of many people from different countries and I'm a testimony of he's trading platform.
Definitely yeast. My favorite are homemade maple bars. YUM!! Next time I'm making them with bacon on top.
My favorite is a specific type of cake donut, sometimes called and Old Fashioned, and sometimes, a Sour Cream donut. These donuts sort of burst along the upper edge, creating a bit of extra crunchy crust that I love a lot. Second to those are crullers, which are yeast donuts. After that, my third favorite is the last resting place for the yeasted dough...the Apple fritter. Also, I spent a single day as a donut maker, and the cake donuts were done from a liquid batter, exactly like a cake batter and dropped into the oil with a special machine that dropped perfect circles of dough/batter...they were definitely not rolled and cut.
Omg him glazing those donuts, with just his fingers 🤤
Yeasted! When I was a Beaumont, Texas teenager in the '50's, our dating ritual was to attend the 'picture show' , and then after the movie, we would stop by a wonderful family owned donut shop. Right before our eyes, they fried the donuts, dipped it in a marvelous sugar coating, and then served the donut to you -- piping hot. I swear if I could take a Krispy Kreme donuts back in time to that little family owned shop to compare the donuts from my past to the Krispy Kreme of today, they would have the very same taste and texture.
Great video! Obviously yeasted doughnuts are best!!
Cake! Love love love glazed old fashioned with hot coffee
I watched your video again, and the donuts you're making seem to be more like cake than the squishy ones I like best. The best donut texture IMO is a french donut still hot from frying (the ones with a ribbed exterior). They are so full of air you can compress them into a very small glob. I have no idea whether the really soft ones like Boston creams are cake or yeast, but they are the type I prefer along with the french ones.
Definitely old fashioned sour cream cake doughnut. With that said I have to admit that I’m in heaven with any type of FRESH doughnut!
Cake doughnuts for sure. They're just more dense and rich to me, a perfect dessert.
I just ordered & received a pack of the gel fat solidifying stuff from Amazon and boy does it work! It's a package of 6 smaller packets that will each solidify 400 ml of oil, so for my cast iron fry pan it was 3 packets.