Greek yogurt donuts

These fun, easy and quick yogurt donuts witout yeast coated with cinnamon sugar are fluffy, delicious and highly addictive. Made with Greek yogurt, baking powder, eggs, plain flour and flavored with vanilla. Great for breakfast, brunch, afternoon tea /coffee or as a snack.

Ingredients

For Greek yogurt doughnuts

320 g (11.3 oz) Greek yogurt, room temperature

350 g (12.3 oz/ about 3 cups) plain flour/ all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

vanilla paste from 1/2 vanilla bean or 1/4teaspoon vanilla extract / 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar

75 g (2.6 oz/ ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons) sugar

80 g (2.8 ozI 1/3 cup ) butter room temperature

3 medium eggs room temperature

1 liter (33.8 fl.oz/ about 4 ¼ cups) vegetable oil for frying

For coating

3 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

Begin by putting the vegetable oil into a saucepan or pot and heat on medium low heat. In a large bowl, combine the flour and baking powder together. If you're using vanilla seeds from vanilla bean, then split the vanilla bean lengthwise with the tip of the knife and scrape out the vanilla seeds. Mix the scraped out seeds with sugar very well.

Next add sugar, vanilla sugar (or whatever you're using), butter and eggs to an extra bowl. Using a hand mixer or a whisk, whisk together until creamy. Stir yogurt until you have a homogeneous mixture. Then add baking powder and flour mixture and mix well until you have a smooth dough (batter). (Don't over mix the dough).

Insert the wooden spoon handle in oil to see if the oil is ready. If bubbles start forming around the spoon, then the oil is ready. Now using two spoons (you could also use ice cream scoop/ cookie dough scoop to scoop the dough), dip them into the pot with hot oil and the scoop a bit of the dough (about ¾ of the tablespoon) and drop it in hot oil.

Fill the pot with as many mini dough balls as possible. Just make sure to leave a bit of space between the dough balls since they will expand during the deep frying process. Remove from the pot and put them on cooling rack lined with paper towels. Then coat the donuts with cinnamon sugar or dust them with powdered sugar. Enjoy!