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Air Fryer Nutella Doughnuts

Air Fryer Nutella Doughnuts

Kylie
Make them for snacks or even for a birthday. These yummy, fluffy doughnuts are so simple to make and even fun for the kids.
It can make between 9 to 16 doughnuts depending on what size cutter you use.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 4 minutes
Proving Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Entertaining, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Doughnuts
Calories 258 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup Water
  • ¼ cup Milk
  • 60 g Unsalted Butter
  • 2 ½ Cups Plain Flour
  • cup Castor Sugar
  • 2 ¼ teaspoon Instant Dried Yeast
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • Cooking Spray
  • Nutella

Instructions
 

  • Add water, milk and butter to a small saucepan and heat over a low setting until butter is melted. Set aside to cool.
  • Sift flour into a large mixing bowl, add caster sugar, salt and yeast. Mix through with a spoon.
  • Beat egg and egg yolk, add to the dry ingredients along with the vanilla extract. Mix with a spoon or dough hook.
  • With the stand mixer on low speed, mix the ingredients while slowly the warm milk, water and melted butter.
  • Turn the speed up to medium and mix all the ingredients through, then turn up to high and start to knead the dough with the dough hook. Add small amounts of flour to the mixture if it is still sticky.
  • Once the dough comes together, create a ball and place it into a greased bowl. Cover with glad wrap and tea towel. Prove for 1 hour in a warm area, eg. oven
  • Oven the dough has doubled in size, gently punch the dough a couple of time to release the trapped air.
  • Roll the dough out to 1 cm to 1 ½ cm thickness and using a doughnut cutter or two different sized cookie cutters cut out your doughnuts.
  • Gather all the scraps and reshape and roll out the dough again to cut out more. Repeat until no dough is left.
  • Place the doughnuts onto a baking track lined with baking paper, loosely cover with glad wrap, then a tea towel and prove for 30 minutes in a warm area.
  • Preheat your air fryer for 2 minutes at 175 C on the bake or manual mode setting.
  • Spray the bottom of the air fryer basket with cooking spray. Place doughnuts (about 4) in the air fryer then spray with cooking spray. Cook for 4 minutes.
  • Place cooked doughnuts on a cooling rack to cool.
  • Melt Nutella in a heatproof bowl in the microwave. Dip the top of the doughnuts into the melted Nutella, smooth with a spoon, then decorate with sprinkles.

Notes

If you are using the dried yeast that needs to be activated, add an extra 1 tablespoon of caster sugar to the milk, water and butter.
Once the butter is melted, add the yeast and whisk through.  Set aside for the yeast to froth up.  This should take 5 minutes for the yeast to activate.
Keyword Air Fryer, Donuts, Doughnut, Nutella