My Granddaughter Makes the Perfect Donuts!

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     This past weekend was our church's general conference.  It is a day when we watch church on television with our family and listen to inspired messages from our church leaders.  It happens twice a year and many families have traditions that make the day even more special.  With our family, I've always served a big breakfast on Sunday morning.  We had my son and his children with us for conference this time and I was talking to them about what we should have for breakfast.  My granddaughter asked if she could make donuts!  I thought it sounded like a great idea and suggested that we make a chocolate ganache to cover them in because the kids all love chocolate donuts with sprinkles! 

       My amazing granddaughter took everything into her own hands and used the Pioneer Woman's recipe for Homemade Glazed Donuts.  I had asked her if she wanted to make baked donuts, but she said that she preferred fried, and I can't blame her for that! 
      The dough is to be made the night before and refrigerated until the next morning.  So, Saturday night she made the dough all on her own in my Kitchen Aid.  Then she wrapped it up and put it into the fridge.  We were a little worried that it might grow to large and over prove because it was in there longer than 8 hours, but it was fine. 
       On Sunday morning, she rolled out the dough and allowed them to rise while we watched the first session of conference.  In the meantime, I made everyone eggs and bacon to tide us over until the donuts were ready! 

This is after they had risen!

      The only thing that I really did to help her was to make sure the oil was up to the correct temperature (375 degrees F.) before she started frying the donuts. Having the oil at the right temperature is crucial to a fried donuts success.  If it isn't hot enough, you will have oily donuts.  If it is too hot the outside will cook but the inside will be raw.  Pioneer Woman gives some good tips with her recipe to help with that.  Jayda was great at following the recipe to the T!   The donuts and donut holes were perfectly cooked.  

It only takes 1 minute per side!

       Really, I just stood there and watched her, taking pictures and when she took them out of the oil onto paper towels, I flipped them over to soak up the oil.  I 'm just so stinkin' proud of her! Her confidence with cooking and baking is really growing! 

All fried and ready for the ganache!

      Neither one of us had ever made ganache before, but we have seen it done on TV a million times.  We worked together on that and it was so easy! 

​Ganache

In a largish bowl, add 9 ounces of chocolate.  We used a dark 60% cacao chocolate chip.  
In a sauce pan, heat up 1 cup of heavy cream just until it begins o bubble to a boil.  Immediately pour the hot cream over the chocolate and whisk it together as the chocolate melts.  Also add a tsp of vanilla at the end.  

       I poured the Ganache over the donuts and my granddaughter followed behind me with the sprinkles!  

They were a huge success! We never got around to doing anything to the donut holes, but they were delicious plain!

      Now we have ideas for other ways to use ganache! 
     Thanks Pioneer Woman for the great donut recipe! Hope you all give it a try and have the success that my granddaughter did! 

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