Old Fashion Donuts (Basque Rosquillas)

Ingredients

• 250 g unbleached flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 150 g cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 75 g sugar
• 7 tablespoons milk
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon orange zest
• 2 tablespoons anisette

Directions

1. 1

   Shift the flour, corn starch and baking powder, add salt and combine.

2. 2

   In a separate bowl combine sugar with wet ingredients and citrus zest.

3. 3

   Slowly add flour mix to wet ingredients, knead it until just well combined. Add any extra flour that you need so it does not stick to your hands.

4. 4

   Grease a bowl and cover with a towel, and let it rest for half hour.

5. 5

   Make sure that dough is not sticky, You can either roll it and cut the donuts but I prefer them the old fashion rustic way: take a piece of the dough roll it with your hand to make a log and then put the ends together and make a little donut with it. Great time for kids to help you rolling them!

6. 6

   Fry them on a deep skillet at 350 degrees. (I prefer canola oil).

7. 7

   Toppings: Basque traditional: powder sugar. But you can put cinammon sugar, chocolate -- .