Unicorn donut recipe

The theme of unicorns is very fashionable, not only in pastries, but also in clothing, accessories, bookstore … this time, we are left with pastry and we are going to make some super easy, delicious and very beautiful unicorn donuts. You may have encountered unicorn donut recipes with impossible ingredients. In recipes, we propose some donuts with this theme with easy -to -find ingredients and explained in a simple and effective way. Of course, respect the rest times, both in the elaboration of donuts and in the drying time in the decoration. The whole process will take you at least two days, but do not worry, read the recipe in advance, prepare the ingredients and get down to work with this irresistible recipe to discover how to do unicorn donuts.

Ingredients to do unicorn donuts:

1. First, we are going to prepare homemade donuts. To do this, we heat the milk so that it is warm and undone the yeast, stirring until its dissolution.

2. We sift the flour along with the salt in a wide bowl or in the glass of the kneader, since in this way the donuts of unicorn will be softer and more spongy.

3. We make a hole in the center and add sugar, milk with yeast and eggs previously beaten slightly. We stir with a spatula in the center and we will gradually incorporate the flour from the sides. We can also do it in a kneader with the kneading hook. In this case, it will be necessary, from time to time, stop and incorporate with a spatula the flour that remains on the sides to continue kneading.

4. The resulting dough will be very sticky. If we knead with our hands, we flour a work surface and hands, we will have to knead and scratch the work table. We will continue to flour our hands but neither in excess, because the dough will be hard if we go into flour. If we use the kneader and see it very soft, add a tablespoon of flour, and continue kneading until the dough gets off a little from the walls.

5. When the dough is a little more manageable, we gradually add the chopped butter and continue kneading. The process is a bit long, but we have to be patient if we want to get perfect unicorn donuts. We will get out of our hands, but without excess. If we use the kneader, we will see that the dough is ready when it takes off from the walls but is still stuck at the bottom of the bowl and still sticky to the touch.

6. We form a ball with the dough, cover it with a wet cloth and let it stand 2 hours or until it has folded its volume.

7. past this time, we flour again a work surface, extend the dough with a previously floured roller and leave it on a centimeter thick. With a round -cutting -cut (mine 6 cm in diameter) we cut the circles to start forming donuts. We knead the leftover dough and cut circles with it until it is completely spent.

8. With another smaller cutter (mine 2.5 cm in diameter), cap, nozzle …, we cut the center of the circle to make the hole to donuts.

9. It is a good idea, although not essential, having prepared some baking paper pieces to put on each piece a donut, since this will then facilitate the task of frying. Thus, we put all the donuts on the papers, which will be in trays and separated from each other. Then, we cover them with a cloth and let them stand for an hour. Dones have to grow a little, but not in excess or lose shape.

10. We put in an abundant saucepan sunflower oil and heat it well. We lower the fire half-low and we introduce the donuts with the paper included. A few seconds later, we can remove the paper with cooking tweezers without problems.

11. If you see that the hole closes while donuts are fried, you can turn it around with a long skewer stick. We cook for a few seconds on the one hand and then on the other. You have to leave them slightly golden, but not in excess.

12. We are withdrawing donuts with some tweezers and we are leaving them on a plate with paper paper so that it absorbs excess oil. It is best to freeze the donuts once cold, especially if they are not going to decorate at the time, because they are delicious the same day of their elaboration, but the next day they lose freshness.

13. Now, we go with the decoration to make unicorn donuts. First, we are going to do the unicorn horns. The ideal is to do it a few days before for the fondant to dry well. I did it two days before.- We make an elongated and fine churrito with a yellow fondant piece about 10 cm long.

– We fold the churrito in half.

– We screw it carefully with each other.

– We cut the lower end leaving it about 4-5 cm long.

– We pinch the top to flatten it and let it dry.

We do as many horns as donuts we want to decorate. I did 12.

14. Once the horns were made, it is the turn of the unicorn ears. To do this, we will use the white and yellow fondant, although you can also replace yellow with another color, such as pink, blue …- We make a ball with the white and a smaller fondant with the yellow color.

– We flatten the white ball with the index finger.

– We put the yellow ball on top and press with the finger to be flattened on the white, so that it will look like a fried egg.

– With the thumb and index finger, we pinch a side of the fried egg to make a beak.

– With a knife, we cut the other end and then be able to hit the donuts on that flatter side.

Let them dry that, by the way, they will do it quite fast, being ready in just an hour.

15. Now, we have to do the glaze of the unicorn donuts. In a bowl we put the Glass sugar, a few drops of lemon and add the water little by little until we see that we have adequate consistency. I have made it a bit thick. We wet every donut in the glaze, taking into account that half will be enough.

16. We are depositing the donuts in a rack to unify the glaze. We let them dry a few minutes and sprinkle the sugar balls and the sprinkles, only in one half of the donuts. If you put the ornaments soon, they may move from the site to drain the glaze to the sides, and if you put them too late, the glaze will have dried and will not stick.

17. It is very important that we let the glaze completely dry to manipulate donuts. To do this, we can put them in the fridge to accelerate the process. Once dry, click with a stick you donate and put them in a cork lined with aluminum foil to stand up. It is time to put some more ornament at the top. This time, we will hit them with a little leftover glasa, and if it has not been, we can do a little more.

18. It is time to put the horns and ears. For the horn, we make a small hole at the top, enough for the whole horn. I have done it with a fine -tip chuchillo. We wet the horn in the glasa, introduce it into the hole and endure it with our hands for a minute to be fixed with the glasa. For the ears you will not have to make any hole, we simply paste them with glasa, one on each side of the horn, we also endure them a minute so that they remain fixed and let them dry completely before manipulating the unicorn donuts again.

19. And we already have ready to consume these homemade unicorn donuts. Remember that they will always be better on the same day of its elaboration. I hope you liked this recipe and I also summon my blog, target = _blank re = NOFOLW class = outboundcakes for you, where you will find other recipes.