Easy Homemade Doughnut

Into a bowl add all the ingredients and mix everything together. Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature so that it will be easy to blend everything together. Add the milk, egg, sugar, salt, yeast, vanilla extract and butter into bowl and give it a good stir. Then add the flour and blend everything using a wooden spoon until you get a shaggy mass of dough. Transfer the dough onto a clean work surface.

Knead the dough for 10-12 minutes or until they become soft, elastic and not sticking to the hands.

Flatten the top of dough and let it rest for 5 minutes on the counter. Cover the dough to make sure it won't get dry.

Dust the counter and the surface of dough with some flour and roll the dough into 1/2 an inch thick sheet. Cut out the doughnuts using a cookie cutter. Use the left-over dough to roll it again and cut some more doughnuts out of it.

Place the shaped doughnut dough onto a prepared baking tray.

Cover the baking tray with a plastic film and let them sit and rise for 50-60 minutes or until they puff up beautifully.

Bake the risen doughnuts at 350F preheated oven for 13-15 minutes or until the top becomes light golden brown in color. Take care not to overbake them as they may become dry. If you want to fry them, you can fry them as well over medium heat till golden brown on both sides.