Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls
Instant, eggless, and yeast free Donut holes / Doughnut balls recipe with three basic ingredients!
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Donut holes or doughnut balls are delicious mini dessert or sweet snacks. This article has three different instant recipes of three different delicious flavors of Donut holes / Doughnut balls.
Saffron – cardamom flavor, chocolate flavor, and cinnamon flavor are three of my favorite flavors in dessert. Most of us have tried and loved chocolate flavored and cinnamon flavored donut holes or doughnuts; but saffron – cardamom flavored doughnut holes are my version of Donut holes fused with Indian dessert flavors (saffron – cardamom).
The recipes in this article do not require egg or yeast. These instant donut holes recipes require just three basic ingredients. Try these vegetarian Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls and make them your family’s favorite dessert!
What are Donut holes / Doughnut balls?
Donut is basically a type of leavened ring shaped fried dough. It is tremendously loved world wide in form of sweet snacks or dessert. It can be homemade or can be bought from bakeries, franchised places, grocery stores, etc.. Donut holes or Doughnut balls are small spherical shaped donuts that are traditionally made from the dough that is taken off from the center of the ring shaped doughnuts. Donut holes are quite small compared to donut itself. So, usually people like me prefer to eat donut holes instead of donuts to satisfy their cravings. Less calories and same taste!
The Three Key Ingredients
The three key ingredients to make instant, yeast free, and eggless donuts holes or doughnut balls are Self rising flour (all-purpose flour or Maida mixed with baking powder and salt) + granulated or powdered Sugar + Milk. You can make scrumptious donut holes from these three key ingredients. Besides these three key ingredients, you will need oil for frying and condiments or flavors of your choice. This article will show you three recipes – chocolate flavored donut holes / doughnut balls, cinnamon flavored donut holes / doughnut balls, and saffron and cardamom flavored donut holes / doughnut balls.
What is Self rising flour and how to make it at home?
Self rising flour is basically premixed all purpose flour (Maida), baking powder, and salt. It is sold in the grocery store for baking purposes. Usually for baking, we mix up the dry mix that always includes all-purpose flour (Maida), baking powder, and salt. Some times if these ingredients are not whisked or mixed properly, we do not get good results. So it is better to use self rising flour instead of mixing all these dry ingredients together.
But incase you do not have self rising flour at home, you can make it on your own. Follow the recipe below and make your self rising flour at home.
Required Ingredients to make self rising flour are –
- 1 cup of all-purpose flour (or Maida)
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1/4th teaspoon of salt
Recipe for making self rising flour at home-
- Take a deep bowl.
- To make 1 cup of self rising flour; take 1 cup of all-purpose flour (Maida), 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, and 1/4th teaspoon of salt.
- Mix or whisk all these dry ingredients really well with a spoon, clean hand, or a whisking tool. Mix really well for at least a minute.
- Once everything is mixed well, self rising flour is ready to use for baking or for making donut holes / doughnut balls.
Donut Holes or Doughnut Balls Frying Technique Video
There are multiple ways you can make donut holes / doughnut balls. You can roll the dough between your greased palms and fry them, you can scoop the dough with a spoon and drop it in the hot oil and fry them, or we can use a piping bag or a Ziploc bag and drop the dough from one end of the Ziploc bag in to the frying pan. See the technique in the video below.
Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls Frying Technique Video
How to make Chocolate Flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls?
Chocolate flavored donut holes / doughnut balls are absolutely delicious and everyone’s favorite. It is easy to make them. You can use cacao powder or your choice of chocolate powder to make these chocolate flavored donut holes.
Ingredients for Dough
- 1 and 1/2 cup of self rising flour or mixture of 1 and 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour (Maida) + 2 and 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder + 1/3 teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoon of powdered or granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup of milk
Other Necessary Ingredients
- Oil of your choice for frying
- 1/4 cup of granulated or powdered sugar (for chocolate sugar mix)
- 1 or 1 and 1/2 table spoon of cacao powder or your choice of chocolate powder (for chocolate sugar mix)
Necessary Supplies or Equipment
- Piping bag or Ziploc bag or a thick clean plastic and make cone out of it. ( I have used new Ziploc bag)
- Scissors
- frying pan or fryer
- Big mixing bowl
- Measuring spoons
Recipe
- Take a deep bowl.
- Take self rising flour (or premixed all-purpose flour + baking powder + salt) and granulated sugar, mix them well.
- Add milk and make a dough with your hand or a food processor.
- The dough will be little loose in consistency but its okay.
- On the other side, take a frying pan add good amount of oil to it. Heat the oil at a medium flame until it is ready for frying.
- Now there are three ways you can make donut holes or doughnut balls.
- Grease your palms with oil or butter. Take a little dough between your palms and roll them into spherical balls. Then fry them in the fryer.
- Other way is take a tablespoon and scoop the dough and put it in the hot oil and fry the donut holes / doughnut balls.
- The method I like to use to make donut holes / doughnut balls is using piping bag or Ziploc bag.
- Take a piping bag add dough to it or take a Ziploc bag add dough to it.
- Bring the batter towards one end of the Ziploc bag.
- And hold it like you are holding a cone or a piping bag.
- Cut a big hole at the end of Ziploc bag, according to the size of donut hole you want. I have cut about 3/4th inch of hole at the end of Ziploc bag.
- Check the oil if it is hot enough for frying. You can add a little bit of dough to the hot oil and if it comes up and starts frying, then your oil is ready to fry.
- Once the oil is ready to fry, take Ziploc bag in your one hand. Hold it like a cone or a piping bag. Hold scissors with other hand.
- See the video below to learn the frying technique.
- Squeeze the dough out of the Ziploc bag or piping bag and start cutting dough at least 1 inch size in a way that the dough directly gets into hot oil.
- You can add at least 5 – 10 donut holes or balls in the frying pan at a time depending on the size of your frying pan.
- Fry these donut holes / doughnut balls until they are golden brown in color and transfer them to a flat plate lined with paper towel.
- Paper towel will soak up the extra oil from your donut holes / doughnut balls.
- On other side take a wide bowl or dish and prepare chocolate sugar mixture.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar to the wide bowl or plate and mix it with 1 table spoon of cacao powder or chocolate powder. Mix these really well.
- Now take hot fried donut holes or doughnut balls and roll them well in the chocolate sugar mix well. Transfer them to the box or tray you are going to put or store donut holes / doughnut balls.
- Chocolate flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls are ready to eat.
- Store them in refrigerator and eat them within 3 – 4 days. Warm them in microwave for about 10 – 20 seconds before eating if you are taking them out of refrigerator.
How to make Cinnamon Flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls?
Cinnamon flavored donut holes / doughnut balls are absolutely delicious and most loved. It is easy to make them. You can use cinnamon powder bought from store. If you have cinnamon sticks at home you can freshly ground them and use freshly ground cinnamon powder.
Ingredients for Dough
- 1 and 1/2 cup of self rising flour or mixture of 1 and 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour (Maida) + 2 and 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder + 1/3 teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoon of powdered or granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup of milk
Other Necessary Ingredients
- Oil of your choice for frying
- 1/4 cup of granulated or powdered sugar (for cinnamon sugar mix)
- 1/2 table spoon of cinnamon powder
Necessary Supplies or Equipment
- Piping bag or Ziploc bag or a thick clean plastic and make cone out of it. ( I have used new Ziploc bag)
- Scissors
- frying pan or fryer
- Big mixing bowl
- Measuring spoons
Recipe
- Take a deep bowl.
- Take self rising flour (or premixed all-purpose flour + baking powder + salt) and granulated sugar, mix them well.
- Add milk and make a dough with your hand or a food processor.
- The dough will be little loose in consistency but its okay.
- On the other side, take a frying pan add good amount of oil to it. Heat the oil at a medium flame until it is ready for frying.
- Now there are three ways you can make donut holes or doughnut balls.
- Grease your palms with oil or butter. Take a little dough between your palms and roll them into spherical balls. Then fry them in the fryer.
- Other way is take a tablespoon and scoop the dough and put it in the hot oil and fry the donut holes / doughnut balls.
- The method I like to use to make donut holes / doughnut balls is using piping bag or Ziploc bag.
- Take a piping bag add dough to it or take a Ziploc bag and add dough to it.
- Bring the batter towards one end of the Ziploc bag.
- And hold it like you are holding a cone or a piping bag.
- Cut a big hole at the end of Ziploc bag, according to the size of donut hole you want. I have cut about 3/4th inch of hole at the end of Ziploc bag.
- Check the oil if it is hot enough for frying. You can add a little bit of dough to the hot oil and if it comes up and starts frying, then your oil is ready to fry.
- Once the oil is ready to fry, take Ziploc bag in your one hand. Hold it like a cone or a piping bag. Hold scissors with other hand.
- See the video below for the better understanding of the frying technique.
- Squeeze the dough out of the Ziploc bag or piping bag and start cutting dough at least 1 inch size in a way that the dough directly gets into hot oil.
- You can add at least 5 – 10 donut holes or balls in the frying pan at a time depending on the size of your frying pan.
- Fry these donut holes / doughnut balls until they are golden brown in color and transfer them to a flat plate lined with paper towel.
- Paper towel will soak up the extra oil from your donut holes / doughnut balls.
- On other side take a wide bowl or dish and prepare cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar to the wide bowl or plate and mix it with 1/2 table spoon of cinnamon powder. Mix these really well.
- Now take hot fried donut holes or doughnut balls and roll them well in the cinnamon sugar mix well. Transfer them to the box or tray you are going to put or store donut holes / doughnut balls.
- Cinnamon flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls are ready to eat.
- Store them in refrigerator and eat them within 3 – 4 days. Warm them in microwave for about 10 – 20 seconds before eating if you are taking them out of refrigerator.
How to make Saffron-Cardamom Flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls?
Saffron-Cardamom flavored donut holes / doughnut balls are absolutely delicious and are my version of Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls infused with widely loved Indian dessert flavors (Saffron and Cardamom). It is easy to make them. You will need good quality saffron strands and grounded cardamom powder.
Ingredients for Dough
- 1 and 1/2 cup of self rising flour or mixture of 1 and 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour (Maida) + 2 and 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder + 1/3 teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoon of powdered or granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup of milk
- 6 – 8 saffron strands
Other Necessary Ingredients
- Oil of your choice for frying
- 1/4 cup of granulated or powdered sugar (for cardamom sugar mix)
- 1 teaspoon of cardamom powder
Necessary Supplies or Equipment
- Piping bag or Ziploc bag or a thick clean plastic and make cone out of it. ( I have used new Ziploc bag)
- Scissors
- frying pan or fryer
- Big mixing bowl
- Measuring spoons
Recipe
- Take a bowl add milk to it and add saffron strands to the milk. Let it sit for about 10 minutes.
- Take a deep bowl.
- Take self rising flour (or premixed all-purpose flour + baking powder + salt) and granulated sugar, mix them well.
- Add saffron flavored milk and make a dough with your hand or a food processor.
- The dough will be little loose in consistency but its okay.
- On the other side, take a frying pan add good amount of oil to it. Heat the oil at a medium flame until it is ready for frying.
- Now there are three ways you can make donut holes or doughnut balls.
- Grease your palms with oil or butter. Take a little dough between your palms and roll them into spherical balls. Then fry them in the fryer.
- Other way is take a tablespoon and scoop the dough and put it in the hot oil and fry the donut holes / doughnut balls.
- The method I like to use to make donut holes / doughnut balls is using piping bag or Ziploc bag.
- Take a piping bag add dough to it or take a Ziploc bag and add dough to it.
- Bring the batter towards one end of the Ziploc bag.
- And hold it like you are holding a cone or a piping bag.
- Cut a big hole at the end of Ziploc bag, according to the size of donut hole you want. I have cut about 3/4th inch of hole at the end of Ziploc bag.
- Check the oil if it is hot enough for frying. You can add a little bit of dough to the hot oil and if it comes up and starts frying, then your oil is ready to fry.
- Once the oil is ready to fry, take Ziploc bag in your one hand. Hold it like a cone or a piping bag. Hold scissors with other hand.
- See the video below for the better understanding of the frying technique.
- Squeeze the dough out of the Ziploc bag or piping bag and start cutting dough at least 1 inch size in a way that the dough directly gets into hot oil.
- You can add at least 5 – 10 donut holes or balls in the frying pan at a time depending on the size of your frying pan.
- Fry these donut holes / doughnut balls until they are golden brown in color and transfer them to a flat plate lined with paper towel.
- Paper towel will soak up the extra oil from your donut holes / doughnut balls.
- On other side take a wide bowl or dish and prepare cardamom sugar mixture.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar to the wide bowl or plate and mix it with 1/2 tea spoon of cardamom powder. Mix these really well.
- Now take hot fried donut holes or doughnut balls and roll them well in the cardamom sugar mix well. Transfer them to the box or tray you are going to put or store donut holes / doughnut balls.
- Saffron-Cardamom flavored Donut Holes / Doughnut Balls are ready to eat.
- Store them in refrigerator and eat them within 3 – 4 days. Warm them in microwave for about 10 – 20 seconds before eating if you are taking them out of refrigerator.
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