Homemade Donuts

Ingredients:

3 cups luke warm milk (90-100 degrees)
1 cup sugar
2 TBS yeast
1 TBS vanilla
2 cups mashed potatoes (potato pearls are best)
2 tsp salt
6 TBS melted butter
Flour to correct consistency (approx. 8.5 cups)
 
Directions:

Mix milk, sugar, yeast, and a little bit of flour (1 ½ cups) and let sit for 10 minutes.  Add potatoes, vanilla, salt, and a little more flour (1 ½ cups) and mix.  Add butter and then flour until mix is the consistency of bread dough.  Let rise until doubled in size.  Roll out dough to ½ inch thick and cut into shapes.  Let sit for ½ hour or more to let dough rise until double its size.  Preheat oil to 325-350 degrees.  Deep fat fry until golden brown.  Coat in favorite covering.

Notes:

9/11/23: oil temp: 325 degrees, used 8.5 cups of flour, made 39 cream filled donuts (next time make dough slightly thinner). Used large blue plastic cup to cut circles. Oreo cream and regular cream were our favorites. Cream filled don't save as well as cinnamon sugar donuts.