
Donuts
Master raised donuts from start to finish, including doughs, fillings, glazes and decorations.
Chef owner of La Donuteria and La Do, Barcelona, Spain.
Make creative and delicious donuts that everyone loves to eat.
This course will focus on making donuts from start to finish, including the ingredients, making the dough, fermentation and frying, as well as making fillings, glazes and decorations.
Richard Bies is the chef owner of La Donuteria and La Do in Barcelona. He has made well over a million donuts! He will show you just how creative you can be when you bring your ideas to life while making delicious donuts that everyone loves to eat.
At the end of this course you will:
- Understand the dough fermentation process and be able to make both classic ring donuts and filled donuts using two different dough preparations.
- Know how to make a variety of colorful and delicious fillings and glazes without the need for artificial colorings or flavors.
- Learn the techniques needed to design and realize your own donut creations.

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Course Syllabus
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Take your donut creations to the next level with tempting textures and natural flavors.
What you'll learn
There are many varieties of donuts: raised, cake, crullers, fritters, and old-fashioned. All of them are fried. We are going to focus on raised donuts in this course.
Donut expert, Richard Bies, will show you step by step how to prepare a range of creative donuts, using techniques and recipes that you can adapt to design your own donuts.
You will learn to mix, ferment, cut and fry two different types of dough.
You will understand the techniques needed to produce cream and curd fillings with correct textures and tempting flavors.
Discover how to make appealing and colorful glazes using fruit purees, nut pastes, espresso coffee, matcha tea, and much more.
With techniques, such as candying and crumble doughs, you will see how to design eye-catching decorations that provide flavors and textures to compliment the overall taste experience.
Who is it for?
This is a medium difficulty course aimed at professionals who would like to organize donut production in larger quantities. This course is also for enthusiasts at home who would like to make their own donuts. In this case the recipes can be scaled down and adapted.
What you’ll need
- Mixer
- Fryer
- Grills
- Donut Cutters
- Thermometer
- Rolling Pin
- Whisks, Spatulas
- Bowls
- 20 L professional mixer or stand mixer
- Proofer
- Fridge for Gastro or 60x40cm
- Convection Oven

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In this course you will learn
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So thorough! He explains every step in detail.
I loved this course, the teacher is so thorough, neat and very creative! He explains every step clearly and it shows how passionate he is about his craft. Thank you to the teacher!! Now it's up to me to try out some of his inspiring recipes!
DONUT HEAVEN!!
I really enjoyed the course! Chef Richard made donut making seem like a breeze! I'm really looking forward on implementing all recipes and techniques! Thank you so much!
Chef Richard was AMAZING!
Very well laid out with all the information. Easy to follow! Love everything about this course. Love the simplicity of the recipes. Less is definitely more! Thank you Chef Richard!
Awesome doughnuts!
The course was very easy to understand. Great looking doughnuts with interesting flavours. Thank you
Absolutely Fantastic!
I love this course! The structure, great recipes, good videos, and presentation are impeccable!
Meet your Instructor
Chef owner of La Donuteria and La Do, Barcelona, Spain.
From the USA to Barcelona, a creator of fun, appealing and delicious pastry products.
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What's included?
- 2 h 10 min HD video
- 11 recipes
- 41 lessons
- Recipe Book
Available languages
- Español, English (VO)
- English, Español, Italiano (BETA), Français (BETA), Português (BETA), Deutsch (BETA)
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very fascinating good looking donuts
such playful with flavor combinations. chef had shown us lots of technics, yet simple enough instructions to follow and make either at home or at the bakery. love this