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Faschingskrapfen

Also known as: Faschingskrapfen PAT

Austria.info’s Faschingskrapfen develops its own yeast dough through a preliminary rest and a later shaped-ball rise, fries fifty-gram balls, fills them with apricot jam and dusts them with powdered sugar.

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Austria.info presents Faschingskrapfen as a typical Austrian carnival dessert. Its selected rum route develops a soft yeast dough in two stages, shapes individual balls and fries them before apricot-jam filling and a powdered-sugar finish.

Fresh yeast, supplied lukewarm milk and the first hundred grams of generic flour knead into a soft preliminary dough. It forms a ball, wraps in cling film and rests at room temperature for one to two hours.

In a bowl, the supplied three yolks, whole egg, sugar, rum, vanilla pod and supplied grated lemon peel are mixed. This mixture and the remaining generic flour join the preliminary dough. Dough hooks knead it smooth while the supplied room-temperature butter and salt are incorporated gradually.

The dough divides into fifty-gram portions and forms balls on a floured cutting board. A floured cloth covers them for another one to two hours, until their volume has nearly doubled.

Oil heats in a high-rimmed pan. The balls fry about three minutes on each side until golden and cool on a rack. Apricot jam fills them, and powdered sugar is dusted over the finished doughnuts.

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Fresh yeast, supplied lukewarm milk and the first hundred grams of generic flour knead into a soft preliminary dough. It forms a ball, wraps in cling film and rests at room temperature for one to two hours. In a bowl, the supplied three yolks, whole egg, sugar, rum, vanilla pod and supplied grated lemon peel are mixed. This mixture and the remaining generic flour join the preliminary dough. Dough hooks knead it smooth while the supplied room-temperature butter and salt are incorporated gradually. The dough divides into fifty-gram portions and forms balls on a floured cutting board. A floured cloth covers them for another one to two hours, until their volume has nearly doubled. Oil heats in a high-rimmed pan. The balls fry about three minutes on each side until golden and cool on a rack. Apricot jam fills them, and powdered sugar is dusted over the finished doughnuts.

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Countries & places: Austria
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