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Vegan Filled Donuts / Bismarck Doughnuts

This fluffy yeast pastries have a lot of names:Filled Donut, Yeast Doughnut, Bismarck,... but they're always same delicious! Learn here how to make this yummy delicacies easily!
Servings: 10 donuts
Author: Lena

Ingredients

Yeast dough:

  • 300 g flour
  • 150 ml plantbased milk lukewarm
  • 2 packages dry yeast or 40 g fresh yeast
  • 40 g margarine or vegan butter melted
  • 40 g sugar
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
  • 30 ml rum alternatively more plantbased milk
  • some lemon zest
  • 1 pinch of salt

In addition:

  • oil for deep-frying
  • powdered sugar
  • apricot jam for filling or another filling

Instructions

  • If you are using fresh yeast, you should mix it with the lukewarm plantbased milk and sugar and leave it alone for 10 minutes. If you are using dry yeast, this step is not necessary.
  • Mix all the ingredients for the yeast dough and knead it for 10 minutes, until it becomes a smooth dough. Let the dough rise in a warm place for at least 1 hour, then the volume of the dough should be doubled.
  • Divide the dough into 10 pieces of 60g each and knead each piece very briefly. Then form it into a ball by dragging the dough piece on the unfloured work surface (or just form a ball with your hands). Place the balls on a floured surface, flatten slightly and leave them to rise for 1 hour or, better even longer to double them in size.
  • Heat the frying oil to 150 degrees Celsius or 302 degrees Fahrenheit (it shouldn't be too hot, otherwise the doughnuts will become burnt on the outside and remain raw on the inside!) and deep-fry the yeast balls for 2-3 minutes on each side, so that they become golden to brown. Then remove them from the grease and dab dry with some kitchen paper.
  • Fill the donuts with apricot jam or another filling: with a pointed knife, drill a small hole in the side of the doughnuts and then press the filling into the donut using a piping bag. The best way to do this is to use a pointed, thin nozzle on the piping bag. Finally sprinkle them with powdered sugar or roll in white sugar.