A very happy WW chanukah!

We've been talking so much at Weight Watchers about the Pro Points values of festive foods over the past few weeks, that I've become super-aware of just how pointy those Chanukah delicacies really are... I think last year, because I still had so much weight to lose, I could get away with underestimating the odd doughnut or latke, but not anymore. I mean, 7 pro points for a small Grodz doughnut is outrageous! 3 bites and it's gone!

Fortunately though, over the last 18 months I've also been honing my 'enlitening' cooking skills and I think the version of baked doughnuts I've come up with here is really as close as you're going to get to the real deal without so much as a hint of oil. They are 4pp each, and really very tasty!

JUDY'S BAKED DOUGHNUTS
(this method works with the dough cycle of a breadmaker, and ingredients should be added in the given order. I'm sure it would work by hand too - but I haven't tried it so can't say for sure)



5.5 fld oz hand-hot water
1 tblspn melted low fat spread            
1 egg
6 dessert spoons sugar
0.5 tsp salt
2.5 cups strong white bread flour flour
1 packet instant dry yeast

Once the dough has come through the dough cycle, punch it down, roll it out and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter (I actually used a plastic drinking cup). I made 13 doughnuts. Leave to rise in a warm place on a tray oiled with frylite, until nicely puffed up. Bake for 15 minutes in an oven pre-heated to 180'c. I then injected each doughnut with 2.5ml of sugar-free strawberry jam (using an old medicine syringe). Just before serving I sprayed each doughnut with frylite and rolled in granulated sugar.