Can I store oliebollen?

You should store oliebollen best baked and wrapped in the refrigerator for a maximum of 4 days.

How do I reheat oliebollen?

Place the oliebollen on a grill and bake them for about 10 minutes in the oven at 200°. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve immediately.

What's the best fat to fry smoutebollen in?

You can perfectly fry this dough in a quality, neutral vegetable frying oil (such as peanut oil or sunflower oil). Do you want that real, authentic fairground taste? Then choose beef tallow in your deep fryer. In any case, make sure your fat is clean and remains stable at 180°C.

Can I add extra ingredients to this basic dough?

Absolutely, this dough is perfect for variations! Do you want to make typical Dutch 'oliebollen' (doughnuts) with it? Then mix a handful of soaked raisins, currants or small pieces of apple into the dough just before rising. You can even make delicious apple fritters with this dough by dipping thick apple slices into the batter and frying them that way.

Recipe for making Dutch Doughnuts

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30min

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Easy

Nothing evokes more coziness than the smell of freshly baked, golden-brown Dutch doughnuts with a thick layer of powdered sugar! Making doughnuts yourself is pure fun, surprisingly easy, and they taste even better than those from a stall. With this ultimate doughnut recipe, we'll create that perfect fairground atmosphere right in your own kitchen. And you can also use this dough to make a variation of doughnuts: apple fritters. Perfect for children's parties!

Ingredients

What do you need?

Quantity: 8p

500 g pastry flour
500 ml lukewarm milk
3 eggs
30 g fresh yeast
2 packets of vanilla sugar
1 tbsp fine sugar
1 pinch of salt
Powdered sugar for finishing

Preparation method

How do you make this?

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Mix the yeast into the milk. Put the flour, vanilla sugar, and salt in a large bowl and mix well together. Separate the eggs, beat the yolks into the milk. Pour into the flour and keep stirring in the middle with a whisk to mix more flour into the mass, you will have a thick firm mass, so keep whisking to mix out all the lumps.

Beat the egg whites with the sugar until stiff and fold into the mixture in 2 batches. Let rise for 1 hour.

Heat your deep fryer to 180° and remove the basket. Scoop about a spoonful or 5 of dough into your pot, let them color, turn them over and color the other side as well. Carefully turn all the oliebollen so they become nicely golden brown all around. Continue to fry the dough.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar, serve immediately.

Tips

You can bake oliebollen in beef tallow or in frying oil.
With this dough, you can also make apple fritters or mix in rehydrated raisins, as they often do in the Netherlands.