Social approval doughnut

Maybe. Old fashioned doughnuts with lime glaze and rose will help you construct an identity outside of Instagram.

Try: Social approval doughnut

465 g ap flour
7 grams salt
1⁄2 packet active dry yeast
30 grams honey
60 g butter cold, cut into pieces
2 eggs
30 g oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
220 g whole milk

Naturally, this recipe begins with a shit morning, a piece of rotten news. On cue, you recognize that the only thing that will ease your malaise is social validation, your drug of choice, the sharp upper of Instagram. You can see the recipe
unfolding in front of you. It’s for a glossy doughnut, approachable but impressive – easily consumed by followers on tiny screens.

You charge to the kitchen, withdraw your dough hook and beat together the first four ingredients.
Butter goes in and you map out the arc of the recipe.
You’d like it to be maudlin yes, but relatably so.
Make a well in the drys, and add the mixture.
Beat on high until the dough is no longer sticky. Here, pause to congratulate yourself on your heroic avoidance of the
present moment.
You should fridge the dough overnight but instead, let it proof next to the heater in your apartment. You can almost taste the likes and comments. Each of us has our cravings.
Once the dough has doubled in size, punch out 1⁄2 inch thick rounds.
As your oil reaches 350 degrees, your hair puffs, your face is blotchy-hot.
Fry.
Glaze with powdered sugar and lime.

Although the doughnuts aren’t cool enough, you head to your shot-spot. Teeter on a stool, frazzled, itchy, covered in hot sugar, snapping the camera 350 times. Finally, identify a single “flawless” shot, indistinguishable from the rest. Adjust the lighting, up the brightness and enjoy this feeling. Your sense of self burns brighter with every like.

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