Dipper Donut Sticks recipe - This sweet and simple recipe makes donut sticks, perfect for dipping into any kind of sauce. Simple pipe them and freeze them, then deep fry them when you're ready to eat.

Ingredients:
* 300ml water
* 180g plain flour
* 120g butter
* 5 eggs
* Few drops of vanilla extract

Method of Preparation:
1. Put the water and butter together in a saucepan, then bring to a simmer.
2. When the butter has melted, beat in the flour with a wooden spoon until the mixture comes off of the sides of the pan and has a shiny look to it.
3. Transfer the batter to a cold bowl and beat with an electric whisk, beating the eggs in one at a time, and adding the vanilla.
4. Once the mixture has cooled, pipe it into strips on a greased baking tray then put into the freezer.
5. When you're ready to use the donut sticks, deep fry them in hot oil until a deep golden brown colour.

A great thing to serve these donuts with would be a hot chocolate sauce - simply melt chocolate, cream and butter together and serve this on the side. This recipe serves four.

Crispy Polish Donuts recipe - These delicious cinnamon-raisin donuts are made with potatoes and just a little flour, rather than all flour, making them lighter and healthier than usual donuts. They are also lightened with beaten egg white, making them lovely and airy.

Ingredients:
* 1 1/4 kg potatoes
* 4 eggs
* 125ml cream
* 125g plain flour
* 1 pinch salt
* 2 tbsp. raisins
* 3 tbsp. icing sugar
* 1 tsp. cinnamon
* Oil for frying
* Sugar for dusting

Method of Preparation:
1. Peel, grate and squeeze the potatoes dry, patting them with kitchen paper to remove any excess liquid.
2. Beat together 4 egg yolks with the cream, icing sugar and cinnamon. Stir into the grated potatoes, then stir in the raisins. Stir in the flour.
3. Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff peaks form then fold the egg whites into the potato mixture.
4. Heat oil to 180C, then drop heaped tablespoons of the mixture into the hot oil. Fry until golden brown and then drain on kitchen paper before dusting with sugar.

You could also inject these donuts with a little apple sauce or fresh cream before serving, it's entirely down to your tastes. This recipe makes 24 donuts.

Old Bread Donuts recipe - This simple recipe uses old bread slices helping you make something really delicious out of something really rather plain and boring. Fill with jam, chocolate or custard - whatever you prefer.

Ingredients:
* 10 slices white bread
* 125g plain flour
* 125ml milk
* 4 tbsp. sugar* 3 eggs
* 1 tsp. vanilla extract
* 1/2 tsp. baking powder
* Pinch of salt
* Jam or chocolate spread to fill donuts
* Sugar to roll
* Oil to fry

Method of Preparation:
1. Whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla extract and sugar until smooth and the sugar has dissolved. Mix the flour with the baking powder and salt and then whisk this in.
2. Make 5 sandwiches using the bread and the jam or spread. Cut the sandwiches into quarters.
3. Remove the crusts and then dip each sandwich quarter into the batter.
4. Fry each donut in hot oil for a few minutes on each side or until golden brown and puffy. Drain on kitchen paper and then sprinkle with sugar.

You could also do a platter of mixed donuts if you were having a party rather than just one flavour of donuts. This recipe makes 20 donuts.

Loukoumades (Greek Donuts) recipe - These sweet, honey-soaked donuts are a staple of Mediterranean cuisine and are perfect for eating at the end of a long dinner. Bite-size light and fluffy donuts are soaked in a cinnamon-honey syrup, making for a delicious dessert.

Ingredients:
* 500g plain flour
* 250ml warm water
* 125ml milk
* 2 x 7g sachets dried active yeast
* 4 tbsp. caster sugar
* 75g unsalted butter
* 3 eggs
* 2 tsp. salt
* 175g honey
* 125ml water
* 1 tsp. cinnamon
* Oil for frying

Method of Preparation:
1. Sprinkle the yeast over the water and let stand for five minutes. In a separate bowl, mix the milk, 4 tbsp. sugar and 2 tsp. salt until dissolved, then mix the milk into the yeast water.
2. Beat in the eggs, butter and flour until a smooth batter forms.
3. Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for half an hour, then stir and leave to rise for another half an hour.
4. Boil the honey and 125ml water together for a few minutes, then remove from the heat and allow to cool. Stir in the cinnamon.
5. Heat the oil to 180C and then make balls from the dough. Drop them into the oil and fry for three minutes on each side.
6. Drain excess oil from the dough balls on kitchen paper then soak the dough balls in the honey cinnamon syrup.

If you don't like cinnamon, leave the syrup as a simple honey syrup instead. This recipe makes 25 donuts.

Bread Machine Donuts recipe - If you have a bread machine, take advantage of it. This super simple recipe for donuts uses a bread machine, then all you need to do is shape and roll the dough to your desired shape before frying them. Fill with jam if you like.

Ingredients:
* 250g plain flour
* 4 tbsp. caster sugar
* 1 small beaten egg
* 125ml warmish milk
* 50g butter
* 1 tsp. dried active yeast
* 1 tsp. salt
* Oil for frying

Method of Preparation:
1. Put the ingredients into your bread machine in this order: milk and egg, flour, sugar, salt then yeast.
2. Select the dough setting of your machine. Once the cycle has finished, knead the dough a few times to remove any bubbles.
3. Break the dough into 16 pieces, then cover with cloth and wait for 20 minutes before patting into a flat circle. If you want to make them ring donuts, use a small cutter to cut a small hole in the centre of each donut.
4. Let the donuts rise again for half an hour before frying.
4. Heat the oil until hot, then fry the donuts for around three minutes until they float, then turn them over and cook for another three minutes until golden brown all over. Drain on kitchen paper.

Because these are really simple, you could spend more time on topping them or filling them - or you could just serve them as they are with either some hot chocolate sauce or cold ice cream. This recipe serves 16.

Bugnes (French Donuts) recipe - These tasty French pastries are very donut-like in taste and texture and are a traditional pastry found in many bakeries in France. Flavoured with lemon zest, they are light and very delicate. You could also omit the lemon zest and use orange zest instead.

Ingredients:
* 1 kg plain flour
* 120g caster sugar
* 150g melted butter
* 8 eggs
* Zest of two large lemons
* 2 x 7g sachets dried active yeast
* 4 tbsp. water
* Oil for deep-frying

Method of Preparation:
1. Combine the yeast with the water and let it stand for 15 minutes.
2. Mix the yeast mixture with the flour, then add the sugar, butter, eggs and zest. Stir with a spoon to start with and then use your hands.
3. Once a dough forms, leave it to rise for a few hours under a cloth.
4. Roll the dough out to around half an inch thick and then cut into shapes.
5. Heat the oil until hot and drop the donuts into the oil very carefully. Remember to remove the excess flour. If the oil is hot enough the donuts will change colour very quickly. If they don't change colour really quickly, leave the oil to heat for a bit longer. Once deep golden brown on all sides, remove and drain excess oil on some kitchen paper.

If you like, sprinkle some icing sugar over the donuts once cooked or roll them in granulated sugar. This recipe serves 20.

Creme Fraiche Donuts recipe - Creme fraiche is used in this donut recipe to lend a lightness and a fluffy texture that is not normally found in donuts. Either have them just as they are, lovely and crispy and sugary, or fill them with jam for extra flavour.

Ingredients:
* 300g plain white bread flour
* 150g creme fraiche
* 100g caster sugar
* 2 eggs
* 6 tbsp. milk
* 6 tbsp. sunflower oil
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* Pinch of salt
* 1 tsp. vanilla extract
* Oil for frying
* Sugar for rolling

Method of Preparation:
1. Sieve together the flour and baking powder. Stir in the salt.
2. In a jug, mix together the creme fraiche, eggs, milk, sunflower oil, vanilla extract and sugar.
3. Gradually mix the two mixtures together until you have a smooth batter.
4. Heat the oil until hot, then create small bite-size donuts from using two teaspoons. Drop into the hot oil. Cook the donuts until golden brown on all sides, then roll in sugar.

You could easily use a few drops of other flavourings, such as almond extract or lemon flavouring instead of vanilla extract. This recipe serves 30.

Baked Mincemeat Donuts recipe - These Christmassy donuts are filled with mincemeat and are baked instead of fried, meaning that they are actually far healthier than the usual deep-fried donut. A simple spiced donut dough is created then filled with mincemeat before being baked in the oven. Serve with cold ice cream.

Ingredients:
* 200g strong plain white bread flour
* 7g sachet yeast
* 25g butter
* 1 tsp. mixed spice
* 2 tbsp. caster sugar
* 5 tbsp. milk
* 4 tbsp. mincemeat
* Pinch of salt
* 1 egg
* Sugar to coat

Method of Preparation:
1. Sieve the flour into a bowl. Stir in the sugar, mixed spice and salt, then rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Stir in the yeast. Warm the milk until just warm in the microwave or a pan, then beat it with the egg.
3. Make a well in the centre of the flour, then pour in the egg/milk mixture. Mix well and then knead together for five minutes or so until no longer sticky.
4. Leave the dough to rise for around an hour, then knead it again briefly before dividing into 12 pieces.
5. Roll the pieces into balls, then flatten them with the palm of your hand. Put a teaspoon of the mincemeat into the centre of the dough, then pull the sides of the dough up around the mincemeat and pinch to seal.
6. Put the donuts down onto a baking tray lined with parchment, sealed side down, and leave for another half an hour.
7. Bake at 190C for 12-15 mins, then roll in sugar to serve.

You could also use this technique to make other filled donuts - try caramel or apple sauce filled donuts for an equally Christmassy vibe. This recipe serves 12.

Simple Jam Donuts recipe - These super-simple jam donuts are so easy to make yet so delicious that you'll reach for this recipe time and time again. Warm crispy donuts are injected with the jam of your choice for a super-sweet treat.

Ingredients:
* 225g plain white bread flour
* 100ml milk
* 22g butter
* 22g caster sugar
* 15g yeast
* 150g jam or more if you like your donuts very jammy
* Oil for frying
* Sugar for rolling

Method of Preparation:
1. Combine flour, milk, butter sugar and yeast in a bowl and mix together for a few minutes.
2. Leave the mixture in a warm place, covered with a cloth, to prove - it should swell to twice its original size. Knock the dough back by hitting it and roll it into balls. Leave these to prove again until they have gotten bigger than they were when you first rolled them.
3. Heat oil until hot enough for donuts to sizzle. Fry for a few minutes on each side until they float to the top, then turn over and fry on the other side.
4. Roll the donuts in sugar.
5. Heat the jam in a saucepan so that it is pourable. Put into a piping bag or bottle, then fill the donuts with about a tbsp. of jam each (depending on how big you made them). Serve.

Chocolate spread, custard or condensed milk would all work in place of jam in this recipe - it all depends on your personal preferences. This recipe serves six.

Spiced Mini Donut Balls recipe - These cute little donut balls are perfect for preparing in advance - simple prepare the batter and roll into balls before putting into the fridge overnight and all you need to do the next day is fry them when you're ready to serve them. Add a scoop of cold vanilla ice cream for a comforting pudding.

Ingredients:
* 275g plain flour
* 80g caster sugar
* 60ml rapeseed oil
* 175ml milk
* 1 egg
* 1 tbsp. baking powder
* Pinch salt
* 1 tsp. ground mixed spice
* 1 tsp. cinnamon
* 200g granulated sugar + 1 tsp. cinnamon

Method of Preparation:
1. Sieve together the flour and baking powder into a large bowl.
2. Mix in the sugar, mixed spice and cinnamon.
3. Beat together the egg, milk and rapeseed oil. Make a well in the centre of the flour, then pour in this mixture.
4. Mix the ingredients together until a smooth batter forms.
5. Drop heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture into hot oil. Fry on all sides until a deep golden brown colour.
6. Mix together remaining sugar and cinnamon and roll donut balls in the mixture so that they are fully covered in sugar.

You could also serve these mini donut balls on cocktail sticks and offer a dip of hot chocolate sauce or creamy caramel as an accompaniment. This recipe serves eight.

Italian Donuts (Sfingi) recipe - These delicious donuts are made from ricotta, caster sugar and vanilla flavouring and they're soaked with honey and icing sugar before being served warm. With a creamy texture on the inside and a crispy yet soft outside, these donuts are a really yummy change from the usual English donuts.

Ingredients:
* 450g ricotta cheese
* 125g plain flour
* 2 eggs
* 2 tbsp. caster sugar
* 4 tbsp. honey
* 4 tbsp. icing sugar
* 1 1/2 tbsp. baking powder
* 2 tsp. vanilla extract
* Vegetable oil for frying

Method of Preparation:
1. Sieve together the baking powder and flour and set to one side.
2. In another bowl, combine the ricotta, eggs, sugar and vanilla extract until smooth.
3. Mix in half the flour and baking powder mixture, then add enough of the remaining flour to make a thick batter. Let the batter rest for 1 hour.
4. Heat oil until batter dropped into oil starts to sizzle, then drop the batter into the fryer (or pan) by the teaspoonful and cook until golden brown.
5. Put the donuts on a plate and drizzle with honey and dust with icing sugar before serving.

A nice touch would be to sprinkle these donuts with pine nuts. You could also crush some mint leaves with the sugar and dust this over the donuts for a distinctly Italian feel. This recipe serves 15.

Quick and Simple Donuts recipe - This simple donut recipe can be made up in advance and you can simply cut the donuts to shape and fry them before rolling them in sugar. The dough will last for a few days in the fridge if wrapped properly.

For a tasty twist on the traditional sugar-coated donut, try adding a little cinnamon to the sugar before rolling the Donut Recipes in it.

Ingredients:
* 500g plain flour
* 250ml milk
* 75g sugar
* 75g butter
* 1 egg
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* Vegetable oil to fry

Method of Preparation:
1. Sieve the flour and baking powder together into a large bowl.
2. Add the butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs, then stir in the sugar.
3. Beat the egg into the milk, then make a well in the flour mixture and pour the milk mixture into it.
4. Mix together to form a soft dough, then put into the fridge until ready to use.
5. Roll the dough out to 1cm thick before cutting into the shapes of your choice.
6. Fry the donuts in 180C oil for around 30 seconds, then turn them over and cook for another 30 seconds. Remove from the fryer and drain on kitchen towel to remove excess oil.
7. Whilst still warm, roll in granulated sugar.

Icing sugar shouldn't really be used to roll donuts in as it is more likely to just melt into the donut; instead, use granulated sugar. A lovely idea would be to use vanilla sugar - sugar that has been stored with a vanilla pod. This recipe serves 6.

Quick And Easy Donut Recipes - Crispy Crème and Dunkin Donuts are two of the most popular donut brands in the market. If you think that how they do it is impossible to make, think again because here are some quick and easy donut recipes which you can try out at home.

All donuts are made the same way. The main ingredients include flour, sugar, milk, oil, eggs and a vanilla. When you have all these ingredients ready, mix everything together for about 2 minutes except for the oil that will be used later on.

Now make three long thick donut strips and then make then like a donut shape and connect both sides together. Put the oil on a medium sized pan and set this either to medium or medium high.

Look at the pan and slowly put in one donut at a time. Bake this for about 7 minutes until it is gold then bring it out and cool it for a bit before serving.

But that is just a plain donut. What if you want to make a chocolate or strawberry donut? To do that, you can melt a block of chocolate or use syrup and then spread this over the top of the donut. To make the syrup, mix together some butter, vanilla extract and butter then heat it until the texture becomes creamy. If you want to add nuts or candy sprinkles, knock yourself out.

There is another way to make a donut. To do that, you flatten each biscuit after mixing all the ingredients and then making a hole in the center using a small cookie cutter.

When the cookie is ready, plane the outer ring and the center in a deep fryer and cook until it is golden brown. Remove it after several minutes and place this over some paper towels to dry off the excess oil. Now coat the donuts with whatever flavor and toppings you like then serve.

The nice thing about making donuts this way is that you get to use everything. Because you placed the outer ring and the center in the deep fryer, you have not only made donuts but also munchkins which are great to eat.

Aside from circular shape donuts or those with a hole, you can also these goodies with filling inside and those that are shaped like a rectangle. If you want to put flavoring, make sure you don’t remove the center. As for a different shape, just make it into the intended form.

After making a few donuts, you will realize that this is so easy to make that anyone can do it at home. If what you made doesn’t taste like those you buy from the store, buy a box and then try to replicate the taste until you get it right.

Making donuts is easy and if you have the time, you can probably sell these to a bakeshop and earn some money. That is probably the best thing to do right now especially during the recession when a lot of people don’t have work and you still have to earn a living.

If you do decide to go into business, make sure you practice effective quality control and price your goods at a reasonable price. If you don’t, the shop where you could be selling your stuff will accept someone who is giving a better offer.

But if you don’t want to sell your donuts, that’s okay because you get to enjoy serving a different one each time after practicing the different quick and easy donut recipes.

1. Quick and Simple Donuts
2. Italian Donuts (Sfingi)
3. Spiced Mini Donut Balls
4. Simple Jam Donuts
5. Baked Mincemeat Donuts
6. Creme Fraiche Donuts
7. Bugnes (French Donuts)
8. Bread Machine Donuts
9. Loukoumades (Greek Donuts)
10. Old Bread Donuts
11. Crispy Polish Donuts
12. Dipper Donut Sticks