Homemade Doughnuts

My sister and I decided to make doughnuts last week. The recipe we used is from allrecipes, and it was incredibly simple. Like cookie dough, all the ingredients get mixed together in a bowl; that's it for that part of the recipe. Then the dough gets rolled out quite thinly (they puff up a lot when they're fried).

Jennifer and I don't have a doughnut cutter, so we improvised and used a glass that was the size we liked to cut the outside of the doughnuts, and we found another extremely tiny circular object in our kitchen drawer that worked just fine for the middle. We had to keep in mind that once the doughnuts get fried they expand, so although the "cutters" we used were a tiny bit smaller than we wanted our doughnuts to be, it was fine; the doughnuts ended up bigger by the end.We just fried them for a couple minutes until they were golden and slightly crispy on the outside, and they had puffed right up.

The recipe suggests that you roll the doughnuts in confectioners' sugar once they come out of the fryer, but we just ate them plain. We found them quite delicious that way, although I'm sure confectioners' sugar or even a glaze or cinnamon sugar would be good too.