AMAZING Salted Maple Crullers!

Salted Maple Crullers // The Sugar Hit!

 

It’s so hard to know how to start this post, because I can only assume that you’re sick of hearing me talk about my love of donuts by now. I mention donuts in every bio I have to write about myself (something I have to do shockingly often, but I’m not complaining).

 

I love a yeasted donut, a cake donut, a doughnut (swanky), a beignet, a churro, a fritter, olliebollen, zeppole, ricotta fritters, sufganiyot, berliners, loukoumades, YOU NAME IT, I love it. (Actually if you can think of any other donuts, comment them below!) And I’m now especially fond of these Salted Maple Crullers!

 

Salted Maple Crullers // The Sugar Hit!

 

These crullers are something that I have heretofore only heard about in movies. I’ve never seen a cruller in an Australian store, until very recently when I had one at Shortstop Coffee and Donuts in Melbourne (although I can’t remember if they called it a cruller).

 

It was a New Orleans Ice Coffee flavour, and it was UGH-mazing. And whilst I loved that New Orleans flavour, I decided to take my cruller up the East Coast of the USA a little ways, and incorporate my favourite tree-sap, Maple Syrup. If donuts are my primary obsession, Maple Syrup is at least in the top five.

 

Salted Maple Crullers // The Sugar Hit!

 

Donuts are an ask to make, I won’t lie. There’s no real reason to ever make them, especially when you can buy such good ones, and you can’t serve them for breakfast or dessert – they’re really only ever a snack. I mean, of course you can serve them whenever you want, but traditionally, they are a between-meals treat.

 

And I think that’s why I love them so much. Donuts have such a fuck-you attitude. They only exist when someone has the sheer will to say, ‘dammit, I’m making donuts. I have no reason to, I just want to. Yep, this is happening. Let’s. Fucking. Do it.’ So I guess in many ways, my entire life view has been shaped by these pucks of dough. That’s awesome.

 

Salted Maple Crullers // The Sugar Hit!

 

The holidays are the one time of the year when that ‘screw-it’ attitude is a little more possible for anyone who has a job. Maybe you’ve got some time off, and you’re a little more of a mind to completely throw any notion of a diet out the window.

 

And the salty maple glaze on top of these crisp-tender beasts is…enough to literally melt a human. If the grinch had had these…he would have actually just chilled out and stayed in his cave. There’s nothing wrong with being an introvert, is all I’m saying. And DONUTS! Always donuts. Love ya, bye!

 

xx Sarah.

 

Salted Maple Crullers // The Sugar Hit!

 

Salted Maple Crullers!
 
Salted Maple Crullers - tender, custardy crullers dipped in a maple glaze and sprinkled with sea salt
Author:
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
  • 1 cup (250ml) water
  • 115g (1 stick) butter
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tsp caster sugar
  • 1 cup (150g) plain flour
  • 4 eggs
  • oil, for frying
For the glaze:
  • 1 cup (225g) powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup (60ml) maple syrup
  • sea salt flakes
Instructions
  1. Place the water, butter, sugar and salt into a medium, high sided saucepan and heat until the butter is completely melted and the mixture just boils.
  2. As soon as the mix boils, remove from the heat and immediately add all the flour. Mix with a wooden spoon until the mixture comes together in a soft dough, and then place back on the heat, stirring constantly, for about 2-3 minutes.
  3. Remove from the heat and place into a large mixing bowl. With a set of electric beaters, or in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, start mixing the dough for about a minute, just to help it cool - it will look curdled and weird.
  4. While mixing constantly on a medium speed, add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each. Again, the mixture will look terrible, but keep going, and once the final egg is in, you should have a smooth, thick, shiny mixture.
  5. Scrape the mix into a piping bag fitted with a 2cm/1inch star tip, and line a baking sheet with baking paper (one that will fit inside your freezer).
  6. Pipe out 8-10 crullers, about the size of a small coaster, onto the baking sheet, and then place into the freezer for at least 30 minutes (or overnight).
  7. To cook the crullers, heat about an 2 inches of oil in a deep, heavy based saucepan, making sure the oil fills no more than half the pan (otherwise it could overflow), until it reaches 160C/325F. You want to keep the oil between 160C/325F and 180C/350F.
  8. Cook the crullers one or two at a time, until light golden brown and fully cooked through. They need about 2½ to 3 minutes per side. Place on a wire rack set over some paper towels to drain and cool slightly, and continue until all the crullers are cooked.
  9. To make the glaze, stir together the powdered sugar and maple until you get a slightly thick glaze consistency (add a little water, a tsp at a time, if it's too thick).
  10. Dip each cruller into the glaze, coating it completely, and then place back on the wire rack so the glaze can drip off and set completely. Then serve 'em!
 

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