2016. Did you hear about the Toronto man who hijacked a bus to go to Tim Hortons? We do like our timbits! Tim Hortons was bought out a couple of years ago. If that wasn’t bad enough the new owners tried
to take timbits off the menu, underestimating our love for it.
“Timbits are more than just deep-fried balls of water and flour to Canadians,”
picketer Tom Delmont told the Oakville News at a rally outside that city’s
Lakeshore Road Tim Hortons location. “If these Americans think they can just
stomp in and take away our Timbits, they’re in for a Whopper of a surprise. Welcome
to Canada
A year later we are still buying timbits, but since one
never knows how long we can, I made these donut holes and they actually taste better than Tim’s. Still, as long as they are selling the stuff I will be buying. But in case we can't... I already figured out how to make two of the staples; old fashioned chocolate and the honey glazed.
OLD FASHIONED CHOCOLATE DONUT HOLES
Pastry:
1-1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tbsp buttermilk
2 Tbsp melted butter
oil for frying
Glaze:
3/4 cup icing sugar
2 Tbsp buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
- Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and the salt.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, buttermilk, and melted butter.
- Add to the flour mixture and stir to blend.
- Chill for at least 1 hour and up to 3 hours.
- Meanwhile in a medium bowl, whisk together the icing sugar, buttermilk and the vanilla extract to make a pourable glaze.
- Line one tray with parchment paper and one with paper towels. Set aside.
- Scrape the chilled dough onto a generously floured cutting board.
- With floured hands, shape the dough into 1/2 inch thick ropes.
- With a chef’s knife cut the dough rope into 1/2 inch segments.
- Roll into balls and place them on the parchment lined baking sheet.
- Meanwhile heat up 2 inches of oil in a smaller dutch pot on medium high heat.
- Roll 4-5 donut holes into the hot oil. Turn them over in the same order they went into the pot.
- As soon as the last donut hole is turned, start taking them out with a slotted spoon and transfer them to the paper towel lined tray to drain.
- Fry the remaining donut holes.
- Dip them into the prepared glaze.
- Let the glaze set for ten minutes before sampling.
