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The donuts are a delicious dessert that a famous cartoon has associated with American culture, actually they are of Dutch origin !
Loved all over the world, they allow us to make a cheerful table for children and adults.

Features:
The dough was slightly different from what we consume today, and it was without a hole in the center, stuffed with dried fruit.
Then a naval captain, Hansen Gregory, forged the dough in the middle to facilitate the cooking, giving rise to the first donut.
Historical background:
Since the middle of the 19th century, what can be considered the ancestor of doughnuts, or a local dessert called olykoek, spread in Holland: small puffs fried in pork fat. It was the Dutch immigrants who exported this cake to America, starting what would have been the evolution of the American doughnut to the present day.
Notes:
The famous American brand of donuts, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. in 2014 made the most expensive donut in the world, priced at 1000 pounds. The precious donut in question, prepared with Belgian chocolate and covered with golden leaves and a sprinkling of edible diamonds, was presented at Selfridges department store in the UK during National Donut Week for a fundraiser for the British charity Children’s Trust.
 

Ingredients for 800 g of dough
For the yeast
75 g Special Molino dalla Giovanna leavened cakes
75 g water
5 g fresh yeast
For the dough
250 g Special yeast cakes Molino dalla Giovanna
150 g whole milk
150 g yeast
25 g fresh yeast
80 g granulated sugar
2 egg yolks
2 whole eggs
50 g sunflower oil (or lard)
a pinch of salt up
the grated peel of a lemon
the pulp of a bourbon vanilla berry
fine rice flour for dusting
For glazing
300 g dark chocolate Extra
30 g colorful sugars without gluten  
Sunflower seed oil for frying

Proceeding
Prepare the yeast: in a bowl pour the mix, add the yeast in the water and mix well, knead with a fork directly in the bowl.
When the dough is smooth and creamy, leave to rise in a bowl covered with film for 40 minutes at room temperature.
Pour the mix and the yeast and mix all in a bowl until you get crumbs, dissolve the milk with yeast, sugar and add to the base of the mix little by little; Knead well, then add the oil and the eggs and continue to work until completely amalgamate.
Finally add the lemon rind, a pinch of salt and the seeds contained inside the vanilla pod (to take them, it will be enough to cut it with the tip of a knife, lengthwise and extract them). Work well until you get a homogeneous mixture, then form with it a ball helping, if necessary, with the finest rice flour.
With the rolling pin on the slightly floured surface bring the dough to the thickness of 1 cm; using a circular coppapasta or a glass, cut the dough obtaining discs of equal size to rise for about 1 hour.
Almost at the end of the indicated time, heat the oil in a large pan bringing it to 180 ºC, then lower the heat and lay the donuts. Cook until golden brown, turning continuously with a skimmer, then drain on absorbent kitchen paper.
Finally add the lemon rind, a pinch of salt and the seeds contained inside the vanilla pod (to take them, it will be enough to cut it with the tip of a knife, lengthwise and extract them). Work well until you get a homogeneous mixture, then form with it a ball helping, if necessary, with the finest rice flour.
With the rolling pin on the slightly floured surface bring the dough to the thickness of 1 cm;
using a circular dough cup or a glass, cut the dough obtaining discs, with another dough cup of a smaller size puncture the center and create donuts.
Let rise for about 1 hour on a baking sheet, meanwhile boil a pot with water and with another saucepan melt the chocolate in a double boiler and mix well from time to time until it is dissolved.
After the time of rising the donuts will be well leavened, put to heat the oil in a pan, when it is hot put to cook the donuts for about 4/5 minutes taking care to turn occasionally.
Drain the donuts on absorbent paper and when they have cooled glaze in chocolate with the help of a fork, complete everything by spreading the colored sprinkles.