Doughnuts on a Lazy Day

Sugar glazed dougnuts

March 4, 2012, Sunday. It's family day, Sunday is about getting lazy all day, doing nothing, but it is the best time to bond with our families and loved ones. It is also a day to most Filipinos to praise and worship our Lord, a must do especially in our family. I started my Sunday with a call from my love (as always), a hearty breakfast and a Holy Mass. The homily was about carrying our own crosses as we get through life, some are big, some are small, some are black, some are white, and its up us to carry it and get a lesson out of it. These crosses God gave us has reasons and God gave these to us because He know that we can rise above it. One example is this: we complain that we have no enough shoes, but we don't think of people who doesn't have a foot or a leg , for that reason alone, we must be grateful for what we have. This homily exemplifies the reason in every pain or heartbreak we encounter, that at the end of the day, we have a GOD that is always there for us. After the mass, of course, we took our lunch and while watching TV, I've decided to spend the Sunday productively, I made doughnuts for merienda, with ingredients found in the kitchen.  Yehey!
Please see below the ingredients, procedure and the finished product.

Step by step process

INGREDIENTS
For the doughnut
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup fresh milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 medium size eggs
2 tsp baking soda/yeast
1 tsp salt
For the glaze
1/4 cup fresh milk
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
PROCEDURE
Doughnut
1. In a mixing bowl, combine the milk, salt and 1 tsp of sugar.
2. Add on the yeast, 2 cups of flour, eggs and the remaining sugar. Stir in one direction only until sticky.
3. Gradually add the remaining 4 cups of flour in the mixture and knead it at least 5 minutes.
4. Set aside the dough and let it rise for a least 1 hour.
5. After an hour, knead the dough and flatten it using a rolling pin. Cut round molds on the dough and set aside to rise. Make round holes on the center for the shape of the doughnut.
5. In a frying pan, put an ample amount of oil for deep frying in medium heat. Fry donuts leaving each side brown and turning the other side for parity.
6. Dip the fried doughnuts in the glaze and place it on a rack to settle.
Glaze
1. In a saucepan of medium heat, combine milk and vanilla, put into boil and add the powdered sugar.
2. Stir gradually in one direction and set aside.