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Mint Chocolate Donuts

Mint Chocolate Donuts
There is nothing more obscenely delicious than mint chocolate donuts. As we all know, the union of mint - with its cool spicy flavor - and chocolate - with its dark rich flavor - is a marriage made in heaven. Now, I know what you are thinking. You are probably wondering how the donut fits into the heavenly equation?

Think of the donut as the honeymoon in Hawaii. Yes! The donut is kind of like a fluffy, lightly-fried, night on a deserted moonlit beach. Eating mint chocolate donuts then, by extension, would sort of be like making love on the warn smooth sand of said moonlit beach, as a school of dolphins did somersaults in the distance. And then, it would follow that you can think of the gut you get from eating an entire batch of these donuts yourself as your first child. And then some day your little fatty child will ask you how you and mommy met, and you can think back warmly of this Instructable.
 
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Step 1Ingredients

Ingredients
You will need for the donuts:
4 1/2 cups of bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 envelope dry active yeast
1 cup milk (plus some for later)
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp unsalted butter
Enough vegetable oil to fill your container to a depth of at least 2"

For the filling:
5 tbsp flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter and/or 1/2 cup solid shortening
1 cup milk
3/4 tsp mint
Green food coloring

For the topping:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup room temperature milk
1 tbsp light corn syrup
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups sifted powder sugar
4 ounces crushed bittersweet baking chocolate

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12 comments
Jan 20, 2010. 11:46 AMRomado12187 says:
I really want to try one... but my dorm room is way too messy to cook in... what are your views on sending me a doughnut... hahah
Feb 7, 2010. 2:36 AMJodex says:
One here please too! It's not a long way to Finland, isn't it?
Jan 20, 2010. 12:05 PMRomado12187 says:
hahah, sounds good to me...
Jan 15, 2010. 12:07 PMJawa888 says:
 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Doughnuts
Jan 12, 2010. 8:52 AMT3h_Muffinator says:
A most elegant pairing of the universes most delectable flavors.
Bravo!

Next up:  Donut flavored mint-chocolate?
Jan 11, 2010. 1:23 PMjessyratfink says:
Truly, a thing of beauty!

I really must make homemade donuts one of these days. :)
Jan 11, 2010. 1:33 PMlemonie says:
I'm thinking of minty eggs... (but they seem to have disappeared almost completely out of existence) these must taste good?

L
Jan 11, 2010. 1:58 PMCorvis says:
one of the most disturbing extended metaphors i've ever heard. nice instructable!

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