Vegan Minidonuts

This is a perfect recipe when you expect visitors and you want to surprise them with something that is usually not homemade.

This is the vegan version of the classic chocolate and sugar glazed donuts. The tricky thing today is time as they require to sit aside twice along the process.

Ingredients
225g all purpose flour
7g of cardamom powder
15g of vegan "butter" (room temperature)
15g of granulated sugar
15g of fresh yeast
150ml of soya milk

We put in a bowl the yeast and the soya milk and we let it grow for 15 minutes. It really grows so make it in a bowl big enough for it to double its size. 
In a separate bowl we mix the flour, the sugar, the cardamom and the vegan "butter" until all the ingredients are integrated and then we pour in our yeast and soya mixture. We keep mixing with our hands until we get a smooth paste that does not stick to the sides.
Now we cover it with a cloth and let it rest for two hours.
When we come back the dough will have doubled its size. We need to knead it with our hands to take out part of the air, just for two or three minutes. Then we will spread it with a roller and we will cut the donuts with a couple of rounded cookie cutters. And now it is time to let them grow again. One hour will be enough.

Next step is to fry them in sunflower oil which will not affect the final taste. You need to put quite a lot oil and it is preferably to use a deep saucepan. We will fry them one by one for a short time at medium heat and we will keep turning it until it gets golden brown. Be careful because they burn very easily. 

Once they are completely cold we can deep them in the sugar or chocolate frosting.

Ingredients for the frosting
Sugar
100g of icing sugar
30ml of water

Chocolate
90g of icing sugar
35ml of water
75g of dark chocolate

We mix the water with the sugar and it is ready to deep your donuts in it.
We  do the same thing for the chocolate frosting and we add the chocolate which we have previously melted in the microwave. 

This time I made minidonuts but you can make them in any size or shape you want. You can also vary the frosting adding some drops of your favourite extract or lemon juice.
See you next week! We will make our own pink week!