Heart Donuts for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day aside, food just tastest so much better heart shaped. And the shape definitely conjure a smile on your loved ones faces. Cookies, cupcakes and today super moist donuts. DOHONUTS!!! And they taste as good as they look. They're a good idea for Mother's Day as well or as a gift for friends. Who wouldn't bite into those handmade heart shaped donuts??

Makes 6 big and 8 small donuts.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Dough prove time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:
3 cups spelt flour
1/4 cup + 1 tbsp. raw cane sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 yeast cube
1 cup dairy-free milk
2 tbsp. + 2 tsp. oil

Besides:
4 cups oil
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
or 3/4 cup chocolate glazing

In a mixing bowl mix together flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. Crumble yeast cube and dissolve it in lukewarm milk. Form a whole into the flour mixture and put in the yeast then add dairy-free milk and oil. With a dough hook knead the dough for 10 minutes until it's soft. Form dough into a ball and sprinkle flour on it. Let the dough prove for one hour.

Sprinkle flour on a work top and roll the dogh out to a size of 1,5 cm. Cut out the hearts and put them on a baking sheet with baking paper. You can use a cardboard if you don't have any cutter. Cover the dough hearts with a kitchen towel and let them prove for 30 minutes.

In an plate mix sugar and cinnamon. Heat up the oil in a small pot. Be careful with the hot oil. Carefully put the donuts into the oil bath and deep-fry them on each side for 15-20 seconds. With a big fork pull out the donuts. Let the donuts drip off on a kitchen paper. Put the small donuts in the sugar cinnamon mixture. Put the big donuts on a cooling rack. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and put it on top of the donuts. Sprinkle with sugar decorations.